I WAS amazed to recently to read a letter extolling the virtues of the wind farm and declaring how many people were in favour of it and then seeing the writer declined to give their name.

Amazed but not surprised, as anyone who fails to appreciate the huge opposition there is to this development must be seriously deluded.

Every measure of public opinion has shown the vast majority of people are against it.

At the general election, every elected local MP had declared their opposition to the windfactory, sorry, farm. I did not see one piece of election material from any candidate from any party that said “we support Navitusâ”.

Some did give vague support for renewables but that’s a bit like being in favour of motherhood and apple pie.

The argument here is that this is not the right place for this size of development.

Even Navitus realised that towards the end of the process when they hurriedly put forward the Plan B, mitigation option.

Too little, too late.

Interestingly, the Navitus project director, Mike Unsworth, has now seen the light and stepped down.

Makes you think, doesn’t it.

JOHN GUNTON

Links Road, Poole