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Latest news on Wind Farm Co-ordination Criteria

We have recently set up a new single point of contact in order to process your wind farm enquiries more effectively;

Please email all future enquiries to:

windfarmenquiries@ofcom.org.uk

If you have no access to email, then you can post your enquiries to:

Ofcom Licensing Centre
PO Box 56373
London
SE1 9SZ

020 7981 3131

We would request that you use one contact method only (preferably email).

Please note emailed enquiries will automatically be forwarded to:

Fixed Wireless Services for clearance of Civil – Microwave Fixed Links

CSS Spectrum Management Services Ltd and JRC (Joint Radio Company) for Scanning Telemetry clearance.

To assess the effects of wind turbines on TV reception in a defined area, the BBC now have an online tool available on their website, at http://windfarms.kw.bbc.co.uk/

Exceptions are made for formal planning applications where you can use both contact methods.

• Fixed-link wind-turbine exclusion zone method [pdf]
  Author: D F Bacon Status: released 28 Oct '02 Version: 1.1 A proposed method for establishing an exclusion zone around a terrestrial fixed radio link outside of which a wind turbine will cause negligible degradation of the radio link performance.
• Wind Farm Coordination Policy
  When we are notified of a proposed windfarm, we will check to determine whether any part of that windfarm falls

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