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Group opposes Bronte moors turbines
Group opposes Bronte moors turbines
Thornton Moor Windfarm
Action Group hopes to convince councillors
to ditch plans to install four wind
turbines on the Bronte landscape
Campaigners against a plan to build giant wind
turbines on moors associated with the Bronte sisters are making a final attempt
to convince councillors and planners to ditch the proposal.
People living close to Thornton Moor, west of
Bradford, are hoping to stop the development in its tracks at a meeting next
week. The moor is a couple of miles from the famous parsonage at Haworth where
the Bronte sisters and their family lived, and which is now preserved as a
museum.
Experts say their work - including Emily Bronte's
Wuthering Heights - was heavily influenced by the moorland landscape of the
area. The Bronte Way footpath also runs straight across Thornton Moor.
Developers want to build four turbines next to
the route of the footpath. Councillors are due to meet on Wednesday to decide
whether to allow the first stage of the plan - a 200ft high wind monitoring
mast.
Anthea Orchard, who lives in nearby Denholm Gate
and chairs the Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group, said the Bronte connection
is only part of their objection.
She said: "It's too close to a Site of
Special Scientific Interest and it's too close to other important sites. It's
also too close to many houses in the area. Quite simply, the site is totally
inappropriate and we're determined to fight it."
Where will this end?
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