Rosneath Peninsula West Community Development Trust propose a community windfarm on the west side of the Rosneath Peninsula, a narrow finger of land extending southwards between the Gare Loch to the east and Loch Long to the west, and in close proximity to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. h+m were appointed to advise on the landscape capacity of the area for windfarm development and to provide guidance on the appropriate scale of any development proposed.
The capacity study concluded that whilst the site had undoubted landscape and visual sensitivities, these were not of such a magnitude that they would preclude windfarm development entirely. A strategy was developed which avoided or minimised adverse landscape and visual impacts, through selection of turbine scale, layout response to the local topographic pattern, avoiding the crest of the peninsula and achieving simple, balanced visual compositions in views from the settlements to the west. A detailed LVIA was undertaken for the project, which focused on likely impacts on the landscape of the National Park.