Storm over wind farm plan
Residents in the Camelford area left town councillors in no doubt of what they think of a proposal for 20 wind turbines at Davidstow Woods.
Last week Camelford Town Council staged an emergency meeting at which the public were invited to express their views on a proposal by Community Windpower Ltd for the wind turbines.
However, town clerk Brian Groves said as yet the council had not received any formal notice of application for the turbines.
Around 40 people attended the meeting and among protestors was Colin Caudery, a founder member of Stop Turbines in North Cornwall (STINC).
Mr Caudery, who lives between St Clether and Davidstow, urged councillors to “throw out” the application when it came before them for consultation.
He told the meeting he was interested in the photomontages which had been released and said he felt they greatly underestimated the true visual impact of the wind farm.
“Yet this is what we the public and planning committee members are given to judge the scale and impact of the development by,” said Mr Caudery.
“What we simply want is a straightforward image that can be easily understood.
“To see the turbines in a wide panoramic format is of no importance. We live with the landscape every day; in all weather conditions we all know it. All we want to know is scale and distance. How big and how near. Not photos dressed up as some sort of pseudo science only experts can decipher.”
He urged town councillors to ask North Cornwall District Council and Cornwall County Council to get the present photomontages re-presented.
“North Cornwall has enough wind farms. Let us make sure this proposal gets thrown out,” said Mr Caudery.
Other residents voiced concerns about noise and the ecological impact upon the area including the starling flocks which roost in Davidstow woods and the impact of digging.
2 September 2008
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