A PLANNING application has just been submitted for a 77 metre wind turbine at Langland, Morchard Bishop.

It will be as high as a 25 storey building and would be placed just 495 metres from our house boundary.

The noise it will produce is 35 dba. Taking into account the movement and flicker of the turbine blades, which will be viewed from all vantage points out of our rear windows, this will make life intolerable.

My wife and I are both retired and were hoping for a peaceful life here in the beautiful Devon countryside but due to the greed of getting the over generous "feed in tariffs", these wind turbines produce, I am afraid there will be many more people like us having to suffer this blight - one that Devon has been saddled with.

There are no morals from the applicants of these wind turbines and this, in turn, divides once friendly communities.

It is a sad future for the whole of Devon as there are hundreds of applications going to local councils, with hundreds already approved.

I have carried out some research on wind energy, which I am afraid was not good.

The turbines are inefficient and will always need a power station for backup.

There are at present 4,896 inland wind turbines in England which only produce three per cent of our total energy.

What would the country look like if the figure was 50 per cent.

I rest my case.

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