Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell is backing calls by Scotland’s planning bosses for limits to be set on wind farms.
Heads of Planning Scotland (HoPS) said the Scottish Government’s new planning guidelines should for the first time specify the country’s “future turbine requirements”.
This would help local planning authorities decide whether applications for wind farms are “reasonable” taking into account how many more are needed to meet Scotland’s energy needs.
The proposal would effectively act as a limit on the total number of turbines amid widespread concern about their rapid spread across Scotland’s countryside.
Although ministers have now promised to protect “wild land”, a number of rural local authorities, including Dumfries and Galloway, have said the definition of this is too narrow and excludes many of their areas of natural beauty.
And Scottish Borders Council have warned that turbines had got taller since existing planning policies were drawn up and “there is now a real prospect of wind-farm dominated landscapes being created over wide areas.”
Scottish Borders Council are calling for the 2.5km minimum distance to be increased in light of wind farm companies erecting taller turbines, which it said are now typically more than 120m (394ft) high.
The comments were made in submissions to a Scottish Government consultation on new national planning guidelines, which will set out how planning authorities consider future wind farm applications.
HoPS, which represents council planning chiefs, has previously warned Scotland’s countryside is in danger of becoming a “wind farm landscape” as hundreds more turbines are erected to meet the SNP targets.
And local MP David Mundell agrees, saying: “My views on the subject are well known, enough is enough. In my constituency we are already struggling to cope with the huge number of wind farms already built, never mind projects in the pipeline.
“The SNP cannot keep on encouraging or approving new wind farms without giving much clearer guidelines to local councils, as well as taking on board the views of local people. In my constituency it is hard to find a hill without a wind turbine - so I have every sympathy with residents trying to block plans. We are lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country, and it is absolutely right that people who live in the area should have their say on what happens to our local countryside. My constituency already includes some of the UK's largest wind farms, and people have simply had enough," he added.