This post is about a strategy document, quietly being pushed through by Dorset County Council. This document seeks to industrialise virtually the whole of rural Dorset by building 180 on-shore wind turbines.
The DorsetForYou webpage holding the documents:
The Draft Document :
The Technical Appendix:
Especially now, as the prize would be a planning precedent that would allow them to cash in all over Dorset with Dorset County Council's blessing.
If you think this is a storm in a teacup and only concerns two villages, I have some very bad news for you. This is only the thin end of the wedge.
Over sixty communities and maybe as many as one hundred and twenty will be lined up for industrialisation. Like dominoes they will be picked off one after the other. Sixty rural villages, towns and hamlets in Dorset. All lined up for having Industrial Wind Turbine Complexes imposed on them. How many (if any) Dorset communities will be left un-scarred?
The Bournemouth Poole and Dorset Renewable Energy Strategy, has been prepared by Dorset Country Council. It is now nearing its final draft stage and has been quietly (silently?) released for public consultation. I have yet to find anywhere that tells the public it is available for comment or what it contains.
In this document, the recommendation is that Dorset should install 180 turbines. Each of these white elephants would be higher than Salisbury Cathedral. This 180 on-shore wind turbine plan is promoted as the "realistic" option. But the report does not rule out their preferred option which would be 360 turbines.
Why 60 villages? Look at a map of Dorset. Rule out the main conurbations. Rule our AONB's. What is left?
If one village is affected by 3 turbines (or two by six), that is 60 communities blighted for 180 turbines. 120 communities ruined for 360.
I repeat this is NOT Off-Shore. This is On-Shore. Next to where people live. The planned Poole Bay off-shore turbine complex is extra to this.
Which bit of Dorset gets ruined the most? Here's some screen shots from the PDF of the Technical summary. (Notice they even sell these figures as including noise mitigation -prior to this the figure was over 1400 turbines!)
First the "Maximum Scenario"
Now the Medium (or as they say, "more realistic") Scenario
I half expect you not to believe me about this. It is so utterly outrageous. So go to the links at the top of this post and see for yourself.
Please post a comment if they "disappear" I have copies and I'll publish here..
When you read about the gallant defence of villages of East Stoke and Silton, remember their planned (and resisted) industrialisation is the thin end of a very ugly wedge.
If we allow their desecration; Your community is next.
2 comments:
Scary stuff, as usual perpetrated by the urban on areas they only drive through.
The "unintended consequence" of this would be wide spread health issues and a massive devaluing of property in Dorset and in the end, loss of income from tourism.
But some people will get very rich off our taxes, the question is who might they be?
Are they planning 6 or 7 along the Bournmouth seafront at all?
JAA, I agree. Really scary stuff. How can anyone possibly believe that this is a viable (let alone desirable) strategy. I don't know where you live, if it is in Dorset I would suggest you write in and object before (I think) 16th August.
If you live elsewhere, Watch out! If they can try and pull this stunt in Dorset you can guarantee it will be tried elsewhere in the country as well.
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