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Two windfarm applications, worth more than £30m when valued together, have been rejected by Angus councillors.
The Corse Hill proposal for coastline between Arbroath and Carnoustie, and the Carrach plan for the glens near Kingoldrum, were both turned down.
Members of the development standards committee decided both plans wqere unacceptable because they would have a high level of visual impact on the landscape.
A council planning officer said that the test ''is in judging whether visual impact is acceptable''.
He said: ''In our view the 'lavender test' (a question of whether a dwelling becomes undesirable to live in) for the two closest properties would be failed.''
At nearby Nether Kelly, he added, properties would also have unacceptable direct views of the windfarm and the development ''would take up a fair degree of the horizon'' for half a dozen or so properties at Arbirlot.
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