Resent-From: ? HARDY-L@csusm.edu
From: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Petition against wind turbines
Date: April 4, 2004 6:57:31 PM PDT
""Petition Against Windfarms
"The Final Blow:
Country Life supports renewable energy, but John Prescott is concentrating too
much on developing land-based wind farms to the exclusion of other potential
sources. His new draft Planning Policy Statement 22, which sets out the
government's national land use planning policies for England, relaxes planning
criteria to allow vast turbines to be built almost anywhere on England's
treasured landscape.
We must act now. The deadline for public comment on the draft PPS22 passed at
the end of January and it has entered a period of consultation by policy
officials within the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's planning
department.
Their findings will be presented to planning ministers, who hope to publish
the
final policy document in June.
The only way to change it now is by applying public pressure. So, we at
Country
Life urge you to sign our petition against this new planning policy before it
is too late. "
__________________
Petition form is here:
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/turbinedebate_form.php
____________________________
Or if that doesn't work please go to:
www.countrylife.co.uk
It won't take you more than a minute to sign the petition.
YOU can make a difference!
Thank you for your support,
Rosemarie Morgan
From: helengibson@clara.co.uk
Subject: RE: Petition against wind turbines
Date: April 5, 2004 5:13:05 AM PDT
Thank you for the Country Life petition form, which I have gladly
dispatched.
As a further comment on wind turbines - the new generation ones are over
100metres tall, (328ft), which is twice the height of Alfred's tower!
Dorset and 'Wessex' do seem vulnerable to proposals to introduce these
schemes. A proposal to build 23 turbines in the Winterborne Valley,
east of Bere Regis, seems to have been withdrawn for the moment. These
were to have been placed just beyond Winterborne Kingston, close to
Winterborne Anderson and the tiny church restored by Florence Hardy at
Winterborne Tomson, and a considerable number on the Charborough Park
estate. Fortunately, the landowner of the latter, Mr Richard Drax,
decided against the plan. This area, closely associated with Two on a
Tower, well known to Hardy, is peaceful and relatively unspoilt. There
is however, a proposal for a smaller wind farm at Winterborne Zelston.
Surely alternative sources of renewable energy should be implemented
before we allow the rural landscape to be ruined.
Helen Gibson