Fife Council has rejected plans to build a brand new windfarm near Kenly.

The application by St Andrews University was rejected by the North East Fife Area Committee on Wednesday.

St Andrews have confirmed they will appeal the decision and a spokesperson has claimed the application was "mishandled."

"We remain fully committed to our plans for a wind cluster at Kenly and will appeal this decision", he said.

"With all due respect to Fife Council, we believe there are strong grounds to show the application was mishandled and that councillors were given misleading information and advice.

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"This is a £20m development which will create and safeguard local jobs in Fife and generate clean power to support world leading teaching and research."

But the report claimed the university had failed to provide sufficient information required to allow the application to go ahead.

It stated: "The proposed development by virtue of its scale, size, number of turbines, prominent location and its close proximity to the adjacent proposed wind turbines at Lingo Farm would have a detrimental cumulative visual impact on the landscape character, local communities, the skyline, the adjacent area of great landscape value, the adjacent candidate special landscape area and the overall appearance of the immediate and surrounding rural landscape setting."

St Andrews University had been considering taking the application to Holyrood to be determined, but as the matter had not been registered with the government at that time, Wednesday’s rejection means the matter has now been decided.

(IT)