Stop Stretham Wind Farm

The Isle of Ely and its surrounding fenland villages are a very special part of our English landscape and our English heritage. The area has attracted writers, painters, walkers and boat people for generations, people moved by its wide open spaces and vistas, its vast overarching skies, and its changing light at all times of the year. To put wind turbines close to the foot of the Isle would have a terrible effect on this special landscape, whether one is approaching the Isle from the south west or looking out over the floodplains towards Cambridge from the edge of the Isle itself. To erect wind turbines here would be an act of vandalism very hard to forgive. In the book East Anglian Landscapes Past and Present by Jack Ravensdale and Richard Muir, there is a chapter on ‘The Fens and Fen Edge’ which captures something of the magic of this whole area and I recommend it strongly.