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The voice of hillam village, North Yorkshire. Delivered free to all residents. Volume 21, Issue 5. Aug—sept 2009
3 wind farms on our doorstep
The three proposed wind farm sites near to Hillam
Three really attractive rural locations, which developers claim are all ideal for the construction of wind farms. Brought to you in glorious colour by Hillam News, our special front page colour feature shows just how extensive and how close the proposed wind farms are to Hillam. Between them there are 30 turbines, each over 400 feet high. We also know of another 5 proposals for wind farms with another 50 turbines within 10 miles. More are added to the list as each week goes by. Ed Milliband says we need 7000 of them.
Woodlane & Bishopwood planning applications The Woodlane and Bishopwood planning applications are now both being considered by Selby District Council. If you wish to object you must do so by 4 August. See page 2 to find out how.
Think about the traffic Construction of Woodlane will require 5570 lorry loads of concrete and other materials brought to or taken away from the site. Delivery of the turbines will need 112 exceptional loads, which they plan to bring down the A63.
Think about the increased risk of Flooding The Woodlane site will cover about 56 acres of which about 14 acres will be either concrete foundations or new roads and hard standings from which the cranes will operate. If you want to tarmac your drive you now need planning permission because of concern over surface water drainage. The local flooding problem is bad enough as it is without building 5.6km of roads over the fields and sinking huge concrete foundations into the ground.
Big enough to see from 45 miles You will be able to see these turbines from 70 kilometres away. When we say they are big, we mean really big. If you saw our helicopter fly by at turbine height you will know what we mean.
Police search wood near Hillam after car chase On the afternoon of Wednesday 22 July a police car chase ended when a stolen vehicle was abandoned in fields near to Birkin. More than eight police vehicles and a helicopter were involved in the operation. The helicopter with heat seeking cameras tried to locate the suspects who were thought to have fled into the Gateforth Wood area. Police surrounded the wood and used the helicopter to try to locate the wanted men. They were looking for two males, and the only other description was that one of them was in a white T shirt. The event took place around 4pm and police were in the area up until late evening. Their search was not helped by heavy rain falling at the time. This was a large scale operation and the way it was carried out was very similar to the one we had many years ago when the IRA shooting incident took place near to Burton Salmon. In this incident we saw what looked like an undercover armed response unit in the area. The vehicle which we believe had been stolen was recovered from fields near to Birkin. From reports elsewhere we understand that the men may have been associated with a number of crimes in the area. There have been an increasing number of crimes where cars have been stolen from outside peoples homes after breaking in to steal the keys and then committing burglary using the stolen car as a get-away vehicle. For our safety and security we hope that the men were apprehended but at the time of writing we have no confirmation.
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