Wind farm bid prompts objections
Objections have been lodged to proposals for a wind farm.
Leicestershire County Council's cabinet agreed it was opposed to the proposed development near Queniborough.
It said benefits of the plan – which include four 126m-high turbines – in generating renewable electricity were outweighed by the harm it would cause an attractive landscape.
Councillor Tony Kershaw said: "These turbines are too big and would not be appropriate for the location."
The council passed its objection to Charnwood Borough Council, which will decide on the plan. More than 200 people have written opposing it. Scottish Power Renewables said the wind farm, on land off Ridgemere Lane, would generate 9.2 megawatts – 10% of the Government's target for East Midlands renewable energy production by 2020.
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by eldorado2010, Barrow on Soar
Wednesday, May 12 2010, 11:47PM
“How come we in Barrow have to have thousands of houses which are not going to benefit anyone but the developers and the Borough councils's pockets but Queniborough has not even half a dozen windmills and everyone is up in arms when this is doing everyone in the world some good!”