I CONCUR totally with the viewpoint that the wind farm off Swanage will degrade the esthetical view and have serious detrimental effect on the Jurassic Coast, Coastal Path, Old Harry, Ballard Down, Swanage, and especially Peveril Point.

However, as someone who has been involved in the environment industry, (oil pollution/recycling) since 1960), I ask what of: 1. The damage to marine life; fish, dolphins etc from the noise and shock waves of the pile driving into the sea bed when building the farm?

2. The culling of migrating birds who fly the shortest route between Peveril Point and Cherbourg (55 miles), who will be killed by the windmill’s blades and disorientated by the vortices of sound coming from the tips of the blades?

3. The ferries trying to access Poole Harbour to/from Cherbourg as well as those to/from The Needles, to/from Southampton?

4. The sound vortices from the blades, which will undoubtedly exacerbate the “Swanage/Dorset hum” as will: 5. The mains hum from the power line, which could be brought onshore at Peveril Point to connect to the large multi-megawatt generating facility hidden in the Wessex Water sewage treatment plant at Peveril when feeds the Grid.

6. The argument that it is preferential to “a dirty great coal power station on our doorstep” doesn’t equate as we had one on Poole Harbour sitting on the Wytch oil/gas field (fuel), but this was closed down just before the Wytch Farm came into production...

ROBERT OWEN, Peveril Heights, Swanage