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. I have used a 1:50 000 scale map to enable all the viewpoints to be shown together on screen: (ordinarily, we use 1: 25 000 scale maps on the website).
The view-points selected include (click each item to view):
- 1 | Hutton Road, Hutton Cranswick
- 2 | Skerne Churchyard, Skerne
- 3 | The North End of Frodingham Road just south on North Frodingham
- 4 | The Northern end of Heigholme Lane, (near Burshill)
- 4a The Northern end of Heigholme Lane, (non - panoramic)
- 5 | The Southern end of Heigholme Lane, (outside Little Leven)
- 5a | The Southern end of Heigholme Lane, (non - panoramic)
- 6 | Brigham Hill.
- 7 | The Southern end of the River Hull New Cut.
- 8 | From Scurf Dyke 500 meters to the east of Turbine 8.
Animations (4) and (5) 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. I have used a panoramic Format for these views to convey identifiably the landscape setting of the turbines as seem from the Heigholme Lane area, (which may be unfamiliar to people who live on the west side of the River Hull). However, in the case of each of these Heigholme Lane views I have added an image apiece, (numbers (4a) and (5a)), which are of standard format so as to convey more accurately the true presence of the turbines for an observer at these viewpoints.
Views 1 - 3 are in standard format, (70mm lens focal length), These animations have their panoramic image counterparts elsewhere on the website.
With views 6 - 8, I have tried to be a bit more ambitious and have shown in each the landscape as it is, (and could remain), in sequence with its appearance once the turbines are in place. However, in each of these films there is also a clip included to show some of the footpaths/public rights of way that will be degraded. They appear as wavering strings of yellow lines or dots in the animations concerned.
On a more general note with regard to turbine height: when you are out and about please use the Test Anemometer mast as a guide to what is being proposed. 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 the proposed location for Turbine 3, (as we have labelled it). Elsewhere on the website is an outline map of the wind farm proposal and you can download this map and use it while outdoors to see which turbines are closer to or further from your viewpoint than the Test Anemometer and/orTurbine 3. This knowledge combined with the imagery we have provided should give you a pretty good idea of what the developer has proposed.
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 have a look at the films and see what you think.
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