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  1. In Topic: Farming Today!

    Posted 12 Sep 2009

    View Post ekky, on 12 September 2009 - 12:28 PM, said:

    Hi Jane

    Well done with your interview the other day. Myself and my family have recently bought into half of my parents property which enabled them to stay living there into their older age, plans and financing for this started back in July 2008, we sold our house in April 2009 and were committed to move.

    In so doing the property which has been in my family for over 20 years had to be officially valued for us to pay stamp duty and pay for half of the house and the estate agent actually devalued the property 30% for the blight of the wind turbines, he did a lot of research and phoning surveyors and people who could advise him to come to this figure. At this point we did not know where they were going.

    We now find out this last week that our property will be within 650 metres of a 125m wind turbine. We are now very worried, I have watched closely and listened to many debates and know that this is totally an unacceptable and unreasonable separation distance, these money grabbers are making life hell for locals. The reality of this threat is sickening and talking to other villagers, older people are not sleeping for the worry and negative equity is a problem for some too.

    We need some form of legislation on separation distance to protect people from these larger turbines being placed so close to peoples houses. The application is going in in November here, we need all the support we can get from far and wide to oppose this. This first phase will effect over 800 people who are ready to fight, but we need others to support us.

    It is a fallacy for the government and wind farm companies to say that these things do not de-value houses. They DAMN WELL DO! and will continue to be devalued once they are up at this close proximity.



    Ekky - I think you are in Spaldington? If so - see you Wednesday?

  2. In Topic: Noise

    Posted 4 Sep 2009

    Apologies for a duplicate post but I thought it might be helpful here too..

    View PostWill, on 13 July 2009 - 03:34 PM, said:

    Are you saying that the recordable noise of a working windfarm, measurable decibel levels and the experience of those who have visited, or even live next door to, windfarms is irrelevant?

    Of all the windfarms currently operational in the UK, only has allegedly driven one couple out of their home. The farm on which that windfarm stands has been highly commended by Farm Life magazine as one of the most beautiful farms in England, and members of a local co-operative have bought two of the wind turbines at Deeping St Nicholas for the benefit of the community.

    Perhaps it would be more sensible to question the anomaly of the Davis's experience than to damn all windfarms on the testimony of just one couple. Jane Davis has undoubtedly become the poster-girl of the anti-windfarm movement. She is also the only person who has apparently discovered a meaning for her existence by talking to any anti-windfarm group who'll listen to her. The consequence of this is that the overwhelming testimony of those who live in the vicinity of windfarms is ignored in favour of just one non-representative witness.


    As the said poster girl(compliment or insult?) I think I have a right to reply here! 38 windfarms currently operating wind farms are currently causing enough noise complaints to have been reported to their local Environmental Health Officers... fact. Currently 8 families in the UK have had to abandon their homes. fact. The farm on which 3 of the 8 turbines stands has indeed been highly commended by Farm Life, the Farmer is Nicholas Watts.. True. And its owner has an MBE in conservation (mainly for birds. ) Fact. His turbines also kill birds - he says so on film. Here is our very own Nicholas Watts MBE telling us so... fact.
    http://www.youtube.c... h?v=-fyeUILsUI8
    It is widely accepted within the industry that there are significant noise issues at our home. fact. Only last week experts giving evidence on behalf of developers at another site acknowledged this. fact.
    It is increasingly acknowledged that noise planning conditions for windfarms are almost impossible to monitor, and thus enforce without a compliant Wind Farm developer.
    The recent International Windturbinenoise Conference held in Copenhagen (the THIRD such Conference) bought together 25 countries and 150 delegates over 3 days to discuss - guess what - wind turbine noise and the problems it is causing.....
    The main conclusions this year were that the bigger the turbines get, the less is understood about the way they react with the environment around them. The effects on human beings - sleep deprivation and health deficits are now becoming increasingly of concern. Low frequency in particular, and the intrusive characteristics of the noise are increasingly problematic.
    If I only heard, at home, the noise that one hears when standing underneath a turbine, then you would never have heard of me, and I have, I can assure you many many other things I want to do with my life, and the main one is to go home!

  3. In Topic: Proximity of housing

    Posted 28 Aug 2009

    View Post JamieB, on 28 August 2009 - 09:12 AM, said:

    Hello

    I work in the planning department at Ecotricity

    Developers will often approach landowners (as suggested) but equally we also get many landowners coming to us. Ecotricity did approach landowners in the area.

    As Jane indicates we usually lease the land rather than buy it. However we only lease the small sections of land needed for each wind turbine base and foundation – turbines have a pretty small footprint with the base and foundation taking up a circular area about 20 metres in diameter. Crops can be grown and livestock can be grazed right up to the turbine base so only a couple of square metres are actually lost. That’s actually what happens with a lot of our existing wind farms, several of which are on agricultural land.



    Thanks JamieB. Good to hear from you. There is currently a legal debate ongoing about with whom liability for any nuisance emanating from the swept area covered by the turbine blades rests. Which could prove interesting and challenging to farmers who lease their land like this.

  4. In Topic: Proximity of housing

    Posted 26 Aug 2009

    View Post Faith, on 26 August 2009 - 08:27 AM, said:

    From my understanding speaking to farmers locally the electriciy company Ecotricity wrote to all the farmers in the local area introducing themselves and informing farmers of their interest in purchansing land in this area for the location of a wind farm (or park as they call it, not sure if that is a play on words to make it sound like a jolly place!!). So it would appear, if this information is correct that they actively seek out plots of land rather than wait for land to come up for sale. I suppose this is just the way businesses work but it seems a shame to loose land of one important cause as good farmland to another important cause when surely there must be land of less use that could be used for siting wind turbines.


    Faith, your understanding is correct. Electricity companies identify areas and seek out willing landowners. The land is rarely purchased, more usually it is leased....

  5. In Topic: Proximity of housing

    Posted 25 Aug 2009

    View Post concerned, on 24 August 2009 - 03:41 PM, said:

    It appears from the map showing the proposed site that it will be close to the houses in Side Bar Lane and also East Heckington and the A17. There seem to be far fewer houses that would be affected to the North East where there are large open spaces. I wonder why they chose the particular location



    Probably because thats the piece of land they could lease...!

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