On Thursday, May 14, the Senate’s Infrastructure, Local Government and Administration and Legislative Committees in the first reading supported the Senate’s legislative initiative aimed at easing restrictions on the placement of wind farms onshore. In addition, they supported the amendments introduced by the Senate Legislative Office.
According to the draft amendments to the Distance Act, the “reverse 10H rule” which prohibits the construction of residential buildings closer than 10H from existing wind turbines would be relaxed.
In its draft, the Senate proposes to introduce a provision according to which failure to meet the 10H criterion will not constitute grounds for refusing to issue a building permit or a building permit, provided that the distance from the wind turbine is greater than 5H. This distance was defined in the same way as 10H, i.e. five times the height of the wind turbine measured from the ground level to the highest point reached by the rotating blades.