Banks Developments have at last responded to P.W.A.G's Objection Document by engaging an Environment and Planning Consultant to comment on our assertions that Went Edge and the surrounding communities would be devastated by the proposal.  Surprisingly the consultant does not contest what we have said, but tries to make the case that government policy and environmental targets placed by government on local authorities should prevail over local conditions.  How can that be right? Why don't Banks, the government and their consultants look for the most appropriate sites and promote them together so that inappropriate sites such as Westfield Lane do not waste so much time and public money before being thrown out.

P.W.A.G. will respond to the developer's comments just as robustly as in our Objection Document.  We have not yet seen any argument that supports Westfield Lane as a site for a wind farm.  In fact there isn't one.

It is still not too late to object to this planning application 07/01338/FUL select "How to object to the wind farm" and "Standard letters" from the main menu, or write to Wakefield M.D.C.