The planning application, submitted to Wiltshire Council, also includes a pedestrian and off-road cycle route, locks, pedestrian and road bridges, a new weir on the River Avon and a hydro-electric turbine.

BBC: Plans for Wiltshire town's canal submitted

Work has started to install a turbine at a community hydro-electric project after bad weather caused delays.

BBC: Shropshire

Pacific Hydro already runs Australia's largest wind farm, a 35-turbine, 52-megawatt development that is spread over a number of grazing properties at Ararat in western Victoria.

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