Wind farm is too close to villages
Horncastle News|December 5, 2007
I would like to draw your attention to an article on P.35 of the "NFU Countryside" magazine (November 2007 issue) that describes the noise from a wind farm near Deeping St Nicholas that is 930 metres from a farm house. It is so bad that the farm tenants (Julian and Jane Davis) have to rent another house in Spalding in which to sleep. The problem is "amplitude modulation" caused by the blades moving in and out of synchronisation and causing noise they describe as "like four helicopters circling above your property or an approaching train". ...I am, in principle, in favour of wind farms but when you visit Holland, Germany and other European countries with a far higher density of wind farms you will very quickly notice that they are sited well away from any habitation.
I would like to draw your attention to an article on P.35 of the "NFU Countryside" magazine (November 2007 issue) that describes the noise from a wind farm near Deeping St Nicholas that is 930 metres from a farm house. It is so bad that the farm tenants (Julian and Jane Davis) have to rent another house in Spalding in which to sleep. The problem is "amplitude modulation" caused by the blades moving in and out of synchronisation and causing noise they describe as "like four helicopters circling above your property or an approaching train". ...I am, in principle, in favour of wind farms but when you visit Holland, Germany and other European countries with a far higher density of wind farms you will very quickly notice that they are sited well away from any habitation.
As a resident of Minting I am amazed that there could be a wind farm in the location indicated by this week's front page.
It is far too close to several villages and other scattered houses in the area for it not to have an adverse effect on the quality of life for many hundreds of residents. The turbines will only be about 1000 metres from Minting and about 1500 metres from Baumber.
I would like to draw your attention to an article on P.35 of the "NFU Countryside" magazine (November 2007 issue) that describes the noise from a wind farm near Deeping St Nicholas that is 930 metres from a farm house.
It is so bad that the farm tenants (Julian and Jane Davis) have to rent another house in Spalding in which to sleep. The problem is …
As a resident of Minting I am amazed that there could be a wind farm in the location indicated by this week's front page.
It is far too close to several villages and other scattered houses in the area for it not to have an adverse effect on the quality of life for many hundreds of residents. The turbines will only be about 1000 metres from Minting and about 1500 metres from Baumber.
I would like to draw your attention to an article on P.35 of the "NFU Countryside" magazine (November 2007 issue) that describes the noise from a wind farm near Deeping St Nicholas that is 930 metres from a farm house.
It is so bad that the farm tenants (Julian and Jane Davis) have to rent another house in Spalding in which to sleep. The problem is "amplitude modulation" caused by the blades moving in and out of synchronisation and causing noise they describe as "like four helicopters circling above your property or an approaching train".
This effect is intermittent but can last for up to three weeks at a time but there is also a constant low sound that is like a mains hum that penetrates throughout the whole house.
I would be grateful if you would point out to your letter writer Helen Pick that the wind farm is NOT sited "across a barren stretch of Bardney Fen" as she stated in a letter last week.
I am, in principle, in favour of wind farms but when you visit Holland, Germany and other European countries with a far higher density of wind farms you will very quickly notice that they are sited well away from any habitation - on remote costal locations or in farmland with no local dwellings or villages.