Suzanne Fletcher's Blog

I'm going to write about what John did today instead.  An important planning meeting was being held to decide on whether to go ahead with wind turbines near to Hilton and Seamer.  It was a very difficult issue as he is very strongly committed to every opportunity for increasing the use of renewable energy.  We would have a wind turbine on our house if practical (it isn't we've checked) and not object if all our neighbours had one.  However in this case there was going to be substantial disruption to not only the lives of the villagers but the environment local to them.  I difficult balance, and he felt he had to vote against in this instance.  The decision was to go ahead, on the casting vote of the chair, so we only hope that more than proposed will be done to limit the problems.