Windfarm triumph for campaigners
Proposals for seven giant wind turbines have been thrown out by councillors amid concerns they would “devastate” the landscape near Market Drayton.
About 300 people applauded yesterday after North Shropshire District Council’s development control committee voted to refuse plans for Nuon Renewables to put the turbines on Lower Farm, Bearstone.
Councillors said the turbines, each measuring 110m, would spoil the landscape and be detrimental to people’s wellbeing.
About 20 members of VORTEX (Veto on Rural Turbine Expansion) were outside The Grove School at Market Drayton with banners and placards before the meeting began, and hundreds of objectors crammed into the school hall to heckle and jeer throughout the meeting.
Speaking at the meeting, Terry May, from VORTEX, said the windfarm would “devastate our local landscape” and harm bats living on the site.
3 September 2008
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