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Wednesday 5 January 2011

Shepway LDF strategy - 2nd Wind farm on land adjoining Somerfield Court Farm

From: Philip Holt [mailto:phil@holt11.fsnet.co.uk]
Sent: 28 July 2011 18:45
To: "mailto:dave"@davemotley.co.uk
Subject: Wind farm

For information, please find below the objection and comments I have sent by email to Shepway planning, 
Regards
Philip Holt

With reference to your letter of 18 July giving details of application Y11/0670/SH, I wish to record my objection to this application.
In this connection, may I make the following comments:
Correspondence between the applicant and Shepway DC refers to “cumulative impact” on the current application for wind monitoring masts at nearby Harringe Brook Wood (Y11/0270/SH). In view of the similarity of the two applications, one by an established electricity supplier and this latest by a local landowner, no doubt investigations will take place as to the background of this new application.
A wind monitoring mast (and any subsequent wind farm) would cause serious visual and noise blight to surrounding areas and particularly to the significant number of dwellings in Barrow Hill and on the south side of the M20.
The rural village of Sellindge is already suffering from various intrusive developments including the M20, HS1, National Grid pylons, the Otterpool Lane anaerobic digester and recycling plant and a potential lorry park. A wind farm or farms – and their trial masts – would just add to the detrimental effect of these projects on community life.
An extensive master planning exercise has just been completed which now forms part of the Shepway Core Strategy Submission Document July 2111. This recommends a development incorporating 250 houses, mainly to the south of the A20. The potential of this project could be severely damaged by any wind turbine machinery (test or final) in full view.
The grant by KCC of planning permission for the Otterpool recycling site has already sabotaged the attractiveness of the ‘village green’ project. The Head of Planning’s succinct submission  to KCC objecting to Otterpool comprehensively illustrated the potential dangers to housing development. Many of his comments could equally apply to nearby wind farms.


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