- Nature and Freedom
- An animated view
- How Much Space Do Wind Turbines Require?
- Core Strategy (Issues and Options): Riverland (Amenity, Biodiversity and Proximity)
- Watch Out: Consultation Document About
The Animations
We, (at the WWFO), have produced a set of Animations for you to look at. The usual caveats apply. We don’t pretend that the imagery is error-free and it purports to represent only the developer’s proposal for a wind-farm at Rotsea/Watton Carrs: an actual planning application has not yet been received by the ERYC.
All the view-points, (numbered and in green), and their relation to the wind-farm proposal, (turbines and anemometer in red and black), are shown on the map below that accompanies this article. The map used is 1:50 000 scale to enable all the viewpoints to be shown, (and is different from the usual 1: 25 000 scale maps ordinarily found on the website).
The view-points selected include (click each item to view):
- Hutton Road, Hutton Cranswick.
- Skerne Churchyard, Skerne.
- The North End of Frodingham Road just south on North Frodingham.
- The Northern end of Heigholme Lane, (near Burshill).
- The Southern end of Heigholme Lane, (outside Little Leven).
- Brigham Hill.
- The Southern end of the River Hull New Cut.
- From Scurf Dyke 500 meters to the east of Turbine 8.
Animations 5 – 6 have a panoramic format. As I have pointed out in the article “How Much Space Do Wind-Turbines Require”, this format will tend to suggest a reduced impact from the turbine’s size than would actually be the case. However views 1 – 3 are in standard 35mm format, (70mm lens focal length), and these should convey a truer sense of the turbine’s presence in the landscape for the view-point concerned.
On a more general note with regard to turbine height, please use the Test Anemometer mast as a guide. Remember that the mast is only 80 meters high and will approximate to the height of the turbine tower that supports the blades. The blade-tip height is another 40-plus meters higher, (i.e. half-as-high-again). Moreover, the test anemometer is close to Turbine 3.
Elsewhere on the website is an outline map of the wind farm proposal. You can use this to see which turbines are closer to or further from your viewpoint than the Test Anemometer/Turbine 3 and this knowledge combined with the imagery we have provided should give you a pretty good idea of what the developer has proposed.
Views 6 – 8 show the landscape as it is, (and could remain), but also show some of the footpaths in the landscape that will be degraded. They appear as wavering strings of yellow lines or dots in the animations concerned.
There is little more to say. The wind-farm enthusiasts will tell you that an advantage of wind-farms is that the landscape can be seen beyond them. For us, the landscape beyond and beside the twirling blades becomes, effectively, invisible.
Perhaps it is all just a matter of opinion but look at the films and see what you think.
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