Cllr Trevor Barker has been in touch, the Radar mitigation for Keadby, Tween Bridge, Thorne and Goole Fields 1 is now in place (based at Hibblestowe). Jolly decent of the wind subsidy companies to 'keep local residents fully informed'.
The "14 turbines at Medge Hall" are in fact 14 of the 22 turbines at Thorne ! - My apologies !
(They seem so close - don't remember that artist's impression !).
Cllr Barker is looking into the Medge Hall wind farm (7 turbines ?) as there is very little made public and nothing online about it !
Does anybody know who's building it, for example ?!
North Lincs Planning are also expecting the Secretary of State to overule their decisions on Saxby and Flixborough and give both the go ahead.
We should also expect a planning application soon from RWE (Goole Fields 1 and 2) for a 7 turbine wind farm at Crowle Grange - next door to the 34 at Keadby, where the anemometer was put up last year (the one we lost on appeal because the Inspector said our argument that we already had enough wind farms was irrelevant to the siting of a foot in the door !).
Surely, North Lincs Planning will throw this straight out ? This area should be declared a 'conclusion zone' ?!
It is clear from the impact of Tween Bridge already, that the 34, and possibly 41 turbines just outside Eastoft and Crowle will dwarf our villages, not to mention the 40 plus turbines just north at Goole Fields and Twin Rivers (will the wind companies be making up for the fall in house prices, for example ?)(then again, perhaps we'll pay less Council tax if our properties slip down a band !).
All this with mounting evidence that wind farms are a very expensive (to the tax payer) way of having little impact on use of power stations and climate change problems, but very lucrative for private wealth ! Business as usual !!
(Not to mention too close to residents - there are health issues - and the large areas of (finite) countryside changing . . .)
Steve Brown
