THE objections presented by MPs, elected Councillors and citizens of the area is the strongest and most extensively argued, on all points, of any offshore wind farm in the UK.

Approval by Planning Inspectorate Assessment Team would mean that none of the objections, either singly or collectively, were deemed strong enough to deny the application.

None of these objections could be used again for any other wind farm in the UK after such a precedent and Assessment becomes an empty exercise.

Their action would be tantamount to setting a new government policy.

Approval means that: the financial damage to the local communities must be much higher than the £2.5bn estimate for tourism in Bournemouth.

The likelihood of some severe maritime accident at such wind farms can be ignored.

Any impact on marine life from construction, decommissioning and maintenance is dismissed.

The impact of wind farm operations on immigrant bird, bat and insect populations is unlikely to be exceeded anywhere on the UK coastline, so the issue is gone.

Navitus has moved so slowly that it is forced to make it’s connections to the National Grid by a 35km zig-zag construction, the width of a motorway around Bournemouth with concomitant damage to every piece of land they cross.

This cost, environmental and amenity damage would not be exceeded at any other site.

The development company has met it’s paper obligations for local communications but has been seen as consistently rude, unresponsive and secretive with objectors.

Such arbitrary behaviour is approved.

The number of permanent UK jobs arising from Navitus is a minute fraction of those lost in tourism, so job gains or losses become irrelevant.

No other wind farm project has drawn such strong responses in Parliament through our local MPs.

The Assessors should be able to accept these interventions as a measure of the strength of the objections to Navitus.

The Assessors may not be able to directly address over-arching policies, but they should be aware that no proposed National Infrastructure project is actually essential to the future of mankind.

Nuclear power benefits from the same policies, but the output of the first new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point matches the output of nine Navitus wind farms.

Three such plants will match the entire offshore wind farm programme of the UK with none of the problems of Navitus. There is no critical or essential need for Navitus.

The Inspectorate is accepting views on Shipping Hazards and other consequences by October 6th.

BRENDAN MCNAMARA, Bath Road, Bournemouth