For a couple of years now, residents in Stoke Bardolph have been campaigning against the proposed installation of wind turbines in their picturesque village alongside the River Trent. The slogan “Too Big. Too Close” has been used on signs erected by almost all those living there – and by many in Burton Joyce.
So it is interesting to note that in spite of all that, Gedling Borough Council has voted in favour of the plans.
Severn Trent is also involved in this. To those who don’t know, they are the people who cannot handle a phone call to report a water leak – behaving as though they’ve never had one before – and who, even when the leak is acknowledged and identified, will ignore it for weeks or months. After that, standard procedure is to dig a hole, erect temporary traffic lights, and then do sod all for at least a fortnight.
Still, being part of Nottinghamshire’s councils, I suppose Gedling Borough Council has to find some way of ruining the countryside. Being so close to the river means that approving plans to build thousands of houses is always going to be a non-starter. So it will just have to be wind turbines.