Noise

One of the people I met at Wheeler`s Cross was a man called Mike, a farmer who lived just by Wheelers Cross. He said that although the Forest Moor turbines are three and a half miles away as the crow flies he gets strobe effects from them in his house. He also told me that one night he and his wife were up near the turbines, with a cow that was calving, and the noise the turbines made was so loud that they could not hear one another speak. When I said that the turbines had been quite quiet while I was at Marie`s, they told me that the noise is variable, and depends on wind direction.

Mike said that the field where they planned to put the turbines was very boggy land, and he was concerned about the amount of concrete that they would need to use – these turbines would be 410 ft high, 150 foot higher than the Forrest Moor ones. Presumably the bases would have to be very big, and then there would be access roads as well. He was worried too about the effects this would have on the watercourses, and the village of Sutcombe in a valley to the south.

July 2007 update