MP joins Bishops Itchington mast protest
Conservative MP John Maples is objecting to plans for a 60-metre high meteorological mast.
The mast would go up near Bishops Itchington, Warwickshire.
In a letter to Neil Hempstead, senior planning officer at Stratford District Council, Stratford-upon-Avon MP Mr Maples said that granting planning permission “could not be divorced” from any subsequent wind farm proposal.
John Maples (pictured) said: “This is not about objecting to wind power but about the wisdom of locating a mast and subsequently a wind farm between Bishops Itchington and Knightcote.
“The mast seems to contravene planning policy. It would frankly be impossible to minimise its visual impact from the Burton Dassett Country Park.”
The application could be decided at the a planning meeting on November 4.
By Les Reid
Coventry Telegraph
20 October 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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