My Story

Huge wind turbines of up to 180 metres tall could surround my village

by... Joe

I live in Pantygasseg village and if the developers get their way the village will be sandwiched between two wind farms, Mynydd Maen wind farm & Mynydd Llanhilleth wind farm.
There are already two turbines close to where the proposed Mynydd Llanhilleth wind farm will be.

I am not against wind farms in general so when they announced they were going build wind farms in these areas I was not too worried about it, I assumed that the turbines would be of a similar size to the current two turbines, which are 45 meters high.

This will be the view from the back garden of Joe’s house. each 180m high. CLICK IMAGE AND, IF YOU ARE VIEWING ON A PHONE, TURN TO LANDSCAPE VIEW!

However the turbines that are being proposed for  Mynydd Llanhilleth Wind Farm are far bigger at 180 metres high, 4 times higher than the current two and the Mynydd Maen wind farm turbines will be 150 metres high.

These turbines are huge, to put this into perspective 180 metres is significantly taller than the Blackpool Tower and both of these developments will oppressively tower above our village.

This wind farm will consist of 7 huge turbines, 2 of which will be on farmland directly behind our village, the closest turbine being only 956 metres away.



Mynydd Maen Wind Farm development from Pantygasseg (CLICK IMAGE AND TURN DEVICE TO LANSCAPE VIEW TO SEE THE FULL VIEW)

 

The Mynydd Maen wind farm will consist of 13 huge turbines, 4 of which will be along the ridge line directly in front of our village, the closest turbine being only be 1km away. These turbines are 150m high, still huge, and as large as the single largest turbine in England (which is on an industrial estate, at sea level).


Both these developments seem to have placed their turbines as close to our village as they possibly could.
As I said above I’m not against wind farms but there are limits as to how close you want to be from such huge turbines and these two developments have far exceeded those limits.