A Kerry County Councillor wants the minimum setback distance for wind turbines to be increased to eight times the turbine height.
Wind energy development guidelines from 2006 don't provide for a mandatory minimum setback distance between wind turbines and residential dwellings.
These guidelines indicate an advisory minimum setback distance of 500m.
Advertisement
Fianna Fáil councillor Fionnán Fitzgerald says he acknowledges the 92% reduction in the land open for windfarm development in draft County Development Plan, but says communities are worried about the other 8%.
Cllr Fionnán Fitzgerald says the planning regulator needs to do more urgently, to address these concerns and increase the minimum set-back distance for turbines.
