Appeals by residents for a change in the law on the building of wind farms have been taken up by Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant.
Plans have been drawn up for turbines to be built at Bagots Farm near Abbots Bromley.
But local residents have joined a number of other groups to campaign for a so-called exclusion zone around sites earmarked for wind farms.
They are suggesting that the law be changed to allow anyone living within two-kilometre of a proposed wind farm to have the power to veto any planning application.
Mr Fabricant said:
“While wind farms can provide a valuable source of natural energy, there are costs to to the environment both in terms of the materials used to manufacture the windmills and cabling and the immediate effect on the local environment in terms of visual impact and noise.
“As with all policy matters, there needs to be a careful analysis of the pros and cons of any wind farm project. I shall await the Government’s response to the exclusion zone suggestion with interest.”
As well as writing to the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Mr Fabricant has also written to people living near the Abbots Bromley site.
In the letter, he expressed his view that caution should be given to such developments. He wrote:
“Personally, I am always very cautious about the siting of wind farms and believe they are unacceptable if the overall environmental impact will be negative.”
