BIRDSEDGE, HUDDERSFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE
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Links to articles, web sites and downloads about wind turbines and energy polict
BOLT
BIRDSEDGE AND DISTRICT OPPOSITION TO
LARGE WIND TURBINES
In November a preliminary meeting was called for people concerned about draft proposals to erect large turbines close to housing in Birdsedge. At that meeting a committee was formed to oppose any existing and future planning applications which would lead to the building of large Wind Turbines within a 2 kilometre radius of housing in the Birdsedge and High Flatts district.
An outline scheme to dot five (now four) very large wind turbines around the village of Birdsedge has caused much concern amongst residents. The turbines are provisionally sited - in several cases - less than 500 metres from housing and within 600 metres of the school and it is estimated that should this project become a solid planning application that each will be the height of Blackpool Tower, some 400 plus feet in height (i.e. just under half the height of Emley Moor Mast). This contravenes the current European guidelines for stand-off from dwellings, which sadly has not been adopted by England yet.
While not opposed to wind turbines and green energy in principle and while realising that planning permission for this project has not yet been sought by the developers, the community feeling is that we should work now to form our official objections and to research all possible sound reasons for opposition. The test mast is currently planted on top of Castle Hill, Birdsedge - itself a potential iron age settlement site and barely half a kilometre from the village's largest concentration of housing, the church and the village school.
Further information from Steve Ashley the secretary of BOLT. 01484 606533 or boltaction2009@yahoo.co.uk
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