SAVED! ... Our Silton

JUBILANT residents of Silton and West Bourton clapped and cheered  as 

members of North Dorset District Council’s Development Control 

Committee unanimously voted to refuse an application for six wind 

turbines as high as Salisbury Cathedral on green fields next to the 

Wincanton-Gillingham Road.

More than 250 of them packed into the Olive Bowl in Gillingham on 

Thursday 2nd July to protest against Ecotricity’s application, 

recommended for approval by the district council’s planning officers.

But after a long day of submissions, all from objectors who included 

MP Bob Walter and a young woman who described in vivid detail the 

medical effects of stress,  the committee threw out the scheme on 

grounds of visual impact, noise, lack of convincing wind speed data 

and “substantial loss of amenity” for more almost 50 homes within 2km 

of the site.

See next week’s Blackmore Vale Magazine for full report and pictures.