The Higher Darracott Wind Turbines

The proposed turbines:

3 x 265 ft (81m) turbines, 3.9 MW  Developer: West Coast Energy




The field where the turbines would be
This photo is of the field where the turbines are to be,  if built.

In the photograph the field  has a covering of white fleece, and just below the field  -not visible in this photo - is Darracott Reservoir.

The site is about a mile from the town of Great Torrington, and there is a footpath that goes through the field.






I had moved to Barnstaple when this site was approved, and I never even knew about it until much later. I was too busy in my own life, I didn`t read the local papers very often or watch the local news, and somehow it just passed me by. Maybe I even heard something about Higher Darracott and it didn`t register...  it isn`t a well-known name. Although I lived in Torrington for 12 years, I didn`t often walk in that direction, I nearly always walked to the south of the town, or round the Commons. I know there are still people in Great Torrington who do not know that three giant turbines are to be built overlooking the town, unless the Poultons can stop this happening with their fight in the European Court of Human Rights.

If they had been called the Great Torrington Turbines far more people would have known about them.

Insert photo of mast if I can find it!

Some links found on the web:

Public Inquiry

About Pat and Arthur Poulton`s decision to go to the European Court of Human Rights following the Public Inquiry. - they live just 470 m from the turbine site.

Incidentally,  Jane Davis, in Lincolnshire, who had to abandon her house because of turbine noise, lived nearly twice as far away. Turbine blades (the length of a jumbo jet in size) have been thrown as far as  four hundred metres when they break off.  Or walk on a  public footpath near one, despite all the talk by the developers about "hugging a turbine". 

From www.warmwell, a very useful site
The anemometer at Higher Darracott, North Devon, ( the case that is to go to the Court of Human Rights), has blown down in the gales, and fallen across a public footpath.

There are two pages about walks to and from the site:

Walk Thursday

Walk Friday
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