Planning Manager
North Devon District Council
Civic Centre
Barnstaple
North Devon, EX31 1EA
Dear Mr Kelly,
Planning Application No; 45489, Installation of 9 Wind Turbines, each 103 metres high , on lands at Bullaford, Wester, and Pauls Moors, Parishes of Bishops Nympton and Knowstone.
Case Officer Mr.A.Barnett Tel: 01271 383354
I wish to OBJECT to this planning application for the following reasons:-
This application is for a large industrial intrusion into the countryside, the impact of which would be totally negative. If permitted, it would have a severe detrimental effect on the landscape and character of a wide area which includes listing buildings and their settings and protected landscapes. This application is for a site which is close to the Exmoor National Park and together with other existing applications would have a disastrous cumulative affect.
Many local farming businesses and other inhabitants of this area have diversified into tourism and country sports enterprises in order to survive. This planning application would badly damage these businesses and severely inhibit their growth. These businesses are essential to the local economy.
Wind turbines produce noise including low and high frequency noise. There is mounting evidence that noise from wind turbines can affect health as can light flicker.
Wind turbines have a devastating effect on wildlife. If permitted, this development would cause irreparable damage to this areas rich local biodiversity.
By introducing giant industrial structures into a rural landscape; by introducing light pollution; by destroying the peace and tranquility of the area; and by destroying the ecology, this proposal would ruin local businesses and have a negative impact on residential amenity leading and to severely depressed property prices and the downturn of the prosperity of this unique region of North Devon while delivering no positive benefits.
This development would destroy the entitlement of residents to the peaceful enjoyment of their property. (Declaration of Human Rights Article 1 and Article 8)
The minute CO2 emissions savings estimated to be made from this industrial development could be better achieved through energy conservation and renewable energy schemes that would stimulate a rural environment and economy and not destroy it.
Yours sincerely
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