Planners with Argyll and Bute Council have approved an application to build
a 77m-high wind turbine on one of the most beautiful, unspoilt coastlines
of the Inner Hebrides.
The massive structure, 17m taller than the Scott Monument in Edinburgh,
will tower above the Gallanach coastline on the stunning isle of Coll.
How can the planners possibly think this development is appropriate?
Our unspoilt Hebrides are one of our country’s main assets and we look to
the planners to protect this unique environment from such commercial
exploitation.
Instead, and despite substantial local opposition, they have supported the
private financial interests of a few to spoil an area of outstanding beauty
for everyone else.
There are several much smaller wind turbines on the island which are much
more suited to the low landscape and provide a measure for acceptable
turbine development; the scale of this one, however, is simply ridiculous.
How has this been allowed to happen? Apparently nowhere is safe now from
these huge white towers.
Graham McGirk,
Sorrisdale,
Isle of Coll
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