Hook Moor near Micklefield, east of Leeds, reached consent through a refusal: Leeds council rejected the application, and the project only received planning permission after an appeal. It is a Banks Renewables wind farm with five turbines (three in the REPD), each 125 m tall, 10.3 MW in total.
Refusal, appeal, construction
The application was submitted on 26 February 2008, and the council refused it on 4 August 2009. The appeal was allowed, and consent was granted on 9 December 2011: 197 weeks from application. For Leeds this is rare: out of 68 decided applications for solar, wind and batteries, 7 were refused (10%, against 19% for UK councils), with a median of 7.3 weeks. Construction began on 11 March 2015, and power first flowed on 15 January 2016.
No other wind farms nearby
Among large projects within 10 km there are no wind ones: the solar farm Hayton House Farm at 49.9 MW is awaiting a decision, and the battery storage Monk Fryston at 320 MW is under construction. More on the pages for Leeds and LS25. Record last updated on 26 February 2016, REPD extract for July 2026.