LAST week's letter by Mrs Clarke shows just how good turbine businesses have become a 'spinning' their plans.?Resilience, the company behind the latest estuary wind turbine proposals, have described their turbines as 'community scale' when I believe they are 87 metres to the tip.

Having visited the Resilience sales stand I found the visual representations misleading. It would be far more helpful to see the proposed turbine compared to a county landmark such as the Cathedral to get a true impression.

It is implied that we should feel fortunate that we are not threatened with a turbine that is as big as that proposed at Sharpness and yet to be approved. What isn't made clear is that the keenly opposed Sharpness proposal is on an industrial site and that Resilience proposes to place their turbine on a green field site north of Lydney. But that is to argue that the case for one is better than the other, when both are unwelcome.

Mrs Clarke states that there is a 'small anti-lobby for the Lydney proposal.'

She should be reminded that the petition signed by 450 people and handed to the council in December 2010 opposed turbine developments anywhere in North Lydney. Since Resilience have announced their intentions there has been a mobilisation of opposition and expressed support from places well beyond Lydney.

The simple fact is that the Resilience proposals for turbines and renewable energy are commercial business cases exploiting generous feed in tariffs, which we all pay for.

Any community payback offered as an inducement to accept turbines is of little value when compared to the costs. The erection of one turbine paves the way for more. The loss of landscape and environment affects everyone and the proximity of this proposal to present and future residents of North Lydney is unacceptable.

Hopefully, legislation currently in the House of Lords to prohibit wind turbines within two kilometres of homes will be brought into effect soon; otherwise I hope we can rely on our council to throw this out.

– Mrs J.E. Waldegrave (on behalf of Ned's Top Residents Action Group).