12:40pm Friday 24th June 2011
I NOTE your report (Gazette, June 16) on the blueprint for how Clacton may evolve over the next two decades, in terms of the provision of thousands of new homes.
Such proposals have little chance of being realised in their current form.
This is because the largest component on the western edge of Clacton, to the north of St John's Road, is too close to the soon-to-be-built wind power station at Earls Hall Farm.
Homes would be within 240 metres of the most southerly turbine, and only a little more than 300 metres from the most easterly.
Potential future residents would live in the shadow of these giant (410ft tall) industrial moving structures, with all the related concerns of noise, visual intrusion and loss of general residential amenity.
David Harrington
STAPLE
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