Issue new guidelines

When a contractor applies to build a wind farm the only criteria that council planning departments apply are existing government guidelines and planning law.

No consideration of a financial feasibility is used, but it is our money in the form of large subsidies and the renewable price levy on our electricity bills that will pay for it.

Who polices this money to see that it is used efficiently and not squandered among a group of band-wagon jumping developers intent on making large profits, with little consideration for people who will have to live underneath these large industrial machines? No one!

We don't begrudge a company making an honest buck, in fact the economy depends on it as well as our jobs but there has to be a balance that protects the public.

The Government needs to step in now and issue new guidelines designed to protect the people it serves, US. Existing guidelines from 1997 were put in when turbines were only small and need to take into account the massive size of the new generation of taller turbines now being deployed.

Extensive research from Portugal has found that the low frequency noise emitted by turbines can physically harm people living in close proximity to a wind farm.

The people of this country need to tell the Government that change is needed now before irreparable harm is done to our towns, villages, countryside and people as well as our wallets.

Write to your MP, sign up on the Downing Street "e" petition on this website, lobby your local councils and make your friends do the same and we may be able to make common sense prevail.

Wind farms should be at least 1.5km away from the nearest habitation or regular place of work.

Too close to houses!