Construction of the wind farm will take a year or maybe longer and this will cause immense environmental damage as well as severe disruption and unpleasantness to the local community.

The fields, containing ancient henges, will be torn up in order to lay access roads that need to accommodate the heavy industrial plant, abnormal load vehicles transporting the key turbine components and fleets of concrete lorries. Endless numbers of tipper trucks would be required to remove the spoil from the site and then deliver hardcore. Following the excavation of enormous holes, each turbine will have a base requiring sixty lorry loads of concrete; 470 concrete lorries in total! Construction traffic from the site, especially in poor weather, will leave the road surface in a constant muddy or filthy state.

The key turbine components, blades, tower sections and nacelles, require approximately 49 mammoth abnormal load vehicles to transport them from Germany to the site. How these vehicles will be able to safely manoeuvre from Melmerby Green Lane is hard to imagine and there is little doubt that the lane will have to be widened thus the loss of hedgerows; the video link on the left has to be seen.

Tourism has already been covered but what will the impression of visitors travelling along the A61 with an adjacent major industrial development of over 1.5 miles in length, where once there was countryside!

What has not been included on the website is the construction of the string of high pylons that will follow.

The picture gallery accessed from the link on the left and the video gives some indication of what is to come, however the illustrated turbines are far smaller than those planned here.