The draft North East Renewable Energy Strategy published in March 2005 sets out how turbines should not be sited so as to impinge on principle views of the Cheviots.
Strangely, Force 9 have done some photomontages of turbines in situ in their documentation - but hardly any have the Cheviots in the background - why not put the turbines on this picture, for instance. Taken from near Brackenside there would be a line of turbines going straight across this view.
Even more strange, the photomontages have "before" pictures, but they have omitted many of the "after"...? Why would that be? How can this environmental statement be seen to be credible if there are such a glaring omissions ?
Here's a photomontage done by a resident who will be severely affected by the development :
View from Coldharbour Cottage
before..
and after
Pictures courtesy of J & A Ferguson.
Pictures courtesy of J & A Ferguson.
Force 9's interpretation of visual impact assessment - a cropped letterbox view of the scene with just a turbine arm visible behind the house on the right.
Positions of turbines (above)
Below in the before and after pictures, cows are used in the foreground to distract the eye and make the very distant turbines seem not much bigger than the height of the cows, when in fact they are almost 90 times the height.
Bowsden view
In the picture below, the turbine and rotors are smaller than those proposed for Barmoor
The Flyer sent out for the public meeting :
WHAT’S YOUR VIEW ON
WIND FARMS?
This could be your view.
Turbine scaled to size of anemometer at Barmoor
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