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By Staff Copy
Pontefract & Castleford Express
www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk
22 October 2009
Determined residents who have battled plans for a wind farm on their Darrington doorsteps are expected to give evidence to a public inquiry today.
Objectors to Banks Renewables' proposals will tell the hearing - triggered when the energy firm appealed Wakefield Council's unanimous rejection of the wind farm - their concerns as 17 witnesses for the Pontefract Wind Farm Action Group (PWAG) start to be called and cross examined.
Inspector Alan Robinson will also visit residents' homes and the site off Westfield Lane next Tuesday after witnesses from PWAG and the West Park Action Group have their say.
A blimp will be flown to illustrate the height of the five planned 125 metre high turbines during his tour.
On Friday the inquiry heard that despite 2,270 objections, the owner of stables near the wind farm site had not filed one.
Iwan Richards, representing PWAG, asked Banks' employee Justin Hancock, the company's final witness, if he was aware of the family connection.
Mr Richards added: "My instruction is that the owner of the stables is the daughter of the landowner.
"So it's not surprising, therefore, that the stable owner has not objected, is it?"
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