MP against wind turbine too

A member of parliament has joined arms with locals in opposing a wind energy project that is planned to be sited at Graveley.
The Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire, Andrew Lansley, disclosed to the activists that he would be joining the Member of Parliament for Godmanchester, St Neots, Huntingdon and St Ives, Jonathan Djanogly, in objecting to the proposed plans for a wind farm at Cotton Farm.

The Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire is quoted as saying that while he supported the idea of alternative sources of energy such as wind turbines, their siting must be proper. He added that setting up the wind farm at Cotton Farm would be a blot on the landscape and cause visual obstruction thereby spoiling the picturesque views from places like Graveley and views over the Ouse Valley.

Npower Renewables which is the company proposing to undertake the project intends to develop eight wind turbines at the location of what was previously a wartime airfield at Cotton Farm.

One of the concerns raised by the Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire was that the low-frequency noise from the wind turbines would be a nuisance especially since it would be situated in a residential area.

Andrew Lansley added that while the Scottish Executive supported a separation distance of approximately 2 kilometres, the wind turbine project at Cotton Farm would only have a separation distance of only six hundred metres from the closest occupied area in Graveley.

The Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire suggested that on-shore and off-shore locations were the best placed locations for wind energy projects.