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Katarzyna Barańska, PhD, talks to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna on plans to relax the 10H rule restricting wind turbine construction: 

The Wind Farm Investment Act, i.e. the Distance or Anti-Wind Farm Act, introduced the 10H rule into Polish law, forbidding the construction of wind turbines at a distance from residential housing or protected areas of less than 10 times the wind turbine’s tip height. The other major change introduced at that time was the possibility of implementing wind projects based solely on a local plan (and not, as previously, a zoning permit).

The controversial 10H rule was adopted due to numerous growing conflicts between dissatisfied residents and municipal authorities over e.g. noise, infrasound, vibrations and light pollution caused by wind turbines.

The 10H rule now will still be maintained, but made more flexible. Municipalities will be able to allow wind farms in their local plans to be located as close as 500 metres from buildings.

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https://www.kochanski.pl/en/winds-of-change-plans-to-liberalise-the-10h-rule/