Sir – Thank goodness Oxford City Council’s plans for a wind turbine in Cutteslowe Park have been put on hold — due to the potential effect on radars at local RAF stations.
Without this impediment Oxford City Council was willing to press ahead with a single commercial-scale wind turbine on the flawed basis that it was a promotion of green energy. It was never an effective green project (inshore, low wind speeds, low-lying land etc) and the effect it would have had on Cutteslowe Park and the city in general should have meant that it was never considered in the first place.
Sadly the council’s ill-advised crusade for single wind turbines continues at Horspath. Let’s just hope that the MoD soon manages to put the kibosh on that piece of tokenism as well.
Suzanne McIvor, Oxford
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