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Wind Turbines? Not Here Please
Gloucestershire Echo|December 14, 2005
We don't want wind turbines here - that was the message from Cotswolds residents at a packed public meeting.
We don't want wind turbines here - that was the message from Cotswolds residents at a packed public meeting.
More than a 100 furious locals packed into Miserden village hall to get a picture of the effect turbines would have on their lives. They heard from Nick Brown, chief executive of Green Amps, the firm behind the scheme.
He told them a phone survey showed local people would like a turbine to help reduce carbon emissions.
The audience were in uproar. They said none of them had received a call.
Shouting and anger erupted again when images of the turbines were superimposed on to photos of the landscape taken at dusk.
Landscape architect Mike Davies, who was hired by anti-turbines group Save Our Scenery, highlighted how they would change the scenery.
Green Amps plans to put 34 turbines in Gloucester- shire by March. While no application has …
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More than a 100 furious locals packed into Miserden village hall to get a picture of the effect turbines would have on their lives. They heard from Nick Brown, chief executive of Green Amps, the firm behind the scheme.
He told them a phone survey showed local people would like a turbine to help reduce carbon emissions.
The audience were in uproar. They said none of them had received a call.
Shouting and anger erupted again when images of the turbines were superimposed on to photos of the landscape taken at dusk.
Landscape architect Mike Davies, who was hired by anti-turbines group Save Our Scenery, highlighted how they would change the scenery.
Green Amps plans to put 34 turbines in Gloucester- shire by March. While no application has been submitted, the firm says the pair in Miserden would be 43m tall with twin 13m blades.
They are likely to be placed in two fields between Calf Way and the B4070.
Mr Davies said the site lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and turbines would threaten the integrity of the area.
He said: "It's an inspirational landscape with a sense of remoteness, where siting development on prominent ridge lines or horizons should be avoided."
Nick Dumit, local secretary of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, got cheers and applause for his speech on protecting the landscape.
He said: "They will be visually intrusive over a long distance and it's premature to sacrifice an area of outstanding natural beauty for them."
SOS chairwoman Joanna Nicolas who lives nearby at The Camp said: "We're pro-renewable energy. We're just against them in an area of outstanding natural beauty."
"It is an inspirational landscape with a sense of remoteness."