PRESS RELEASE

Visual Impact

The proposal for a wind farm between Burnham-on-Sea and Brent Knoll in Sedgemoor, will have an huge impact on the beautiful countryside around the Knoll.

In a week when the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry refused an application at Whinash in Cumbria for a number of wind turbines due to the impact on the environment, the kNOll to wind farm Action Group have issued these photographs to give an impression of how wind turbines might sit in the arena of Brent Marsh and an idea of scale.

It is also noted that Sedgemoor District Council have, in the last week, refused an application for an 80ft mobile telephone with the explanation that “The site is on low, flat land in the countryside where the mast would be prominent and obtrusive in the landscape especially when viewed from the M5 motorway”

kNOll to wind farm calls on consistency from Sedgemoor District Council when considering any application for a wind farm at Brent Marsh. If an 80ft telephone mast erected at Isleport Business Park would be prominent and obtrusive as viewed from the M5, surely turbines of over 300ft, at a similar distance from the motorway built on low, flat countryside would be greatly more prominent and obtrusive.