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Byram Wind Farm started out being called Byram Park Wind Farm, then it was called Ferrybridge and now it has been renamed Byram Wind Farm. They are all the same site and the same developer - we will now refer to it as Byram Wind Farm.

The developer for this wind farm is E-on. They incorrectly imply that the location for the proposed wind farm is already blighted as there is a limestone quarry to the east and a sewage works to the south, also it is close to Ferrybridge power station so why not try to push through the building of a wind farm as well.

We live here and we know the truth - the quarry is barely visible, is no longer operating and few people in the area will even know it is there or where it is, and the sewage works is well screened behind an area of woodland and almost as unknown as the quarry. The turbines which are significantly higher than Ferrybridge cooling towers would be visible from miles around. There will be line of sight visibility from as far away as parts of Leeds, Doncaster, York, Goole and Selby.

The site is to the south of Byram and provides the rural aspect for the villages of Burton Salmon, Byram, Hillam, Birkin and Beal.

If Byram and Woodlane Wind Farms both went ahead Birkin village would be surrounded by 23 turbines, each over 400 feet high. Beal would see a swathe of 23 turbines across a 135degree arc to the north of the River Aire and the visual environment would be ruined. This is on top of the many other reasons why this site is not suitable for locating a wind farm.

See how the two wind farms might look from Beal Bridge - click here and all will be revealed - and how they dominate Burton Salmon as you approach - views from Poole Lane & Ledgate Lane.

Byram wind farm proposal is nine turbines, bringing the total in the immediate area to 30. ( Byram, Woodlane and Bishopwood.)

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of ordinance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

You Should Worry About

Size - They dominate the landscape

• 9 x Turbines 125 metres (405 feet) high
• 30 feet higher than a cooling tower
• Higher than any building in Leeds

Noise

• Turbines generate a lot of and sound travels a long way in open country
• Planners allow 43db night time noise at the nearest homes - 4 to 8 times louder than present level at many local homes
• An annoying, eerie swoosh 24 hrs/day when the wind blows

Industrialisation of a Rural Landscape

• Over 6,000 tons of concrete foundations
• Noise and traffic disruption

The Financial Cost  to You

• House prices will suffer up to 20%
• Would you buy your home if the village skyline was dominated by massive noisy turbines
• The government is adding to your electricity bills to pay for it as a ‘stealth tax’
• The more they build, the more you pay

Limited power generation

• 9 turbines – to produce a total of about 6.75MW average power (only when the wind blows)
• 2000 turbines to replace Ferrybridge output
• And only when the wind blows

More Information

For more information on wind farms in general please click here and go to the Stop Wood Lane Wind Farm Site.