Last updated at 12:15, Friday, 12 October 2012

Plans for a 220ft wind turbine in Flimby were thrown out by Allerdale council on Tuesday.

Empirica Investments Limited had applied to erect the turbine at Ewanrigg Hall Farm, east of Pennygill Road.

The plans were recommend for approval when they came before Allerdale’s development panel last month but a decision was deferred for a site visit.

The council received objections from Broughton Moor Parish Council, Friends of Rural Cumbria’s Environment and Westnewton Action Group and two letter from residents.

Marion Fitzgerald, of the friends, said: “If you allow this to be built you will be depriving the people who live in the area of the one view they have that does not contain a turbine.”

Richard Walters, agent for the application, told the panel that the company had worked extensively with planning officers and discussed the concerns of local residents.

Councillor Binky Armstrong, who moved for refusal, said: “There is a cumulation of turbines, single and farms, being built in a very short distance of each other in this area – we are overwhelmed with them and there has to be a stopping place.”

First published at 11:56, Friday, 12 October 2012
Published by http://www.timesandstar.co.uk