We want the Scottish Government to reject the planning application for Sanquhar II wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway.

Sanquhar II windfarm would be situated in the Nithsdale area of Dumfries and Galloway, in the dramatic landscape of the Southern Uplands. If approved it would have 48 x 200 metre high turbines and 2 x 178 metre turbines, some of the largest erected so far onshore the UK.
Scaur Glen, which is in part a Regional Scenic Area, will have 26 of the 50 turbines, which will visually dominate the beautiful Glen and the upper reaches of the neighbouring Shinnel Glen, as well as homes and farms. Several homes will have 6 or more of these giant turbines within 2 miles.
Local communities and visitors believe that Sanquhar II would have an unacceptable landscape and visual impact over its entire site and environs, including Cairnkinna, Tynron Doon, the Striding Arches, and the nearby 'Donald' mountains of Blacklorg and Blackcraig Hills, as well as the recently developed South West Coastal Route 300.
There are otters, peregrine falcons, black grouse, red squirrels, red kites and owls in the area, and golden eagles have recently been released nearby.
The Glens and environs have a strong historical link with the Covenanters of the 17th century, and Allan's Cairn, a Covenanters grave, is situated just outside the perimeter of the windfarm.
The Southern Uplands Way long distance walk, which is important for local tourism, goes through the proposed Sanquhar II site.
Homes in the area have private water supplies which could be severely disrupted by drainage and excavations for Sanquhar II windfarm.

The area proposed for Sanquhar II windfarm contains extensive deposits of Class 1 peats, which are nationally important carbon-rich soils, deep peat and priority peatland habitat, and which would be destroyed by the construction of Sanquhar II, releasing thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and destroying an ecosystem the Scottish Government has pledged to protect.
Sanquhar II will add to the increasing cumulative impact of existing and consented wind farms in an area considered to be 'very sensitive' to turbines of greater than 150 metres, and where there are 'few opportunities' for turbines of up to 150 metres to be sited in this area, (D&G Wind energy appendix C, June 2017), let alone the 200 metre turbines of Sanquhar II.
The Scottish Government has stated that it "wants to see the right developments in the right places, and Scottish Planning Policy is clear that the design and location of any wind farm should reflect the scale and character of the landscape and should be considered environmentally acceptable.”
Sanquhar II is the wrong development in the wrong place.
We ask that the Scottish Ministers reject this planning application.