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High Court: Deeping woman tells of windfarm ‘nightmare’
Credit: By ET News staff, www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk 7 July 2011 ~~
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A woman has told how she resorted to red wine and sleeping tablets to escape the “nightmare” noise nuisance from a nearby windfarm.
Jane Davis, who is suing the landlords, owners and operators of eight wind turbines near Grays Farm in Deeping St Nicholas, told the High Court in London yesterday that she tried a number of “coping mechanisms” to deal with the humming noise.
She and her husband Julian are seeking an injunction to stop the noise and £400,000 damages, or damages of up to £2.5 million to compensate them for being driven out of their family home by the noise.
Mrs Davis told the court that when the turbines first began to operate in 2006, she assumed that they would get used to the outlandish noise.
She said: “We found that didn’t happen. I think our first coping mechanism was probably red wine and putting a fan on to try and blot out the noise and allow us to sleep.
“We had sleeping tablets but we were very reluctant to take these because they can lead to a long-standing problem.
“It is my normal practice to sleep with the window open – it doesn’t matter how cold it is.
“So we tried to sleep with the window shut but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
“We could still feel and sometimes hear the pulsing beat through the windows.”
The couple even resorted to friends’ sofas to try to catch up with sleep that they had lost as a result of the noise, she said.
The couple finally left the family home at Grays Farm in December, 2006.
Mrs Davis said she found it hard to deal with lack of sleep at the best of times but the steady disruptions made by the turbines finally forced them out.
Asked what she and her husband wished to achieve through their case, she said: “We would like the noise to stop, the nuisance to stop, and we would like to go home and start our lives again after this five-year intermission.”
All the defendants deny that the turbines created any noise nuisance, suggesting that the couple have become “unduly sensitive” to the noise of the windfarm.
The hearing continues.
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