Wind farm decision postponed

A decision on whether to give the go-ahead to the construction of a weather mast measuring fifty metres tall on a piece of land located in the midst of Gartree and Lubenham has been postponed.

Harborough District Council had been requested by Energy4All to give the planning permission to erect the anemometer which is used for calibrating the speed of wind as well as its direction. This was necessary since Energy4All was looking to develop a wind farm and wanted to test the viability of such a scheme.

The matter was brought up before the planning committee of Harborough District Council and was widely expected to be consented to despite the fact that the time allocation for consultations had not yet reached the expiry date.

Energy4All is looking to develop a wind farm comprising of 4 wind turbines on farming land belong to James Wright. Each of the four wind energy turbines is going to be ninety metres wide and one hundred and twenty five metres tall.

The locals in Lubenham have been carrying out a door-to-door campaign against the proposed wind farm. The anti-wind farm campaigners have been enlightening people on the proposal which they say has not received the required thorough scrutiny.
The campaigners have said that the wind energy turbines would be taller than then Big Ben which rises to a height of ninety six metres.

The district councillor of Lubenham ward, Blake Pain, made an appeal to the committee to postpone the verdict until wide-ranging consultations had been done. The planning committee were in agreement with him and as a result the decision on the anemometer was deferred.