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Drop wind turbine plans, opera house is urged
Campaigners called yesterday for the Glyndebourne Opera House to abandon plans to build a wind turbine in its grounds.
The proposal to build the 230ft (70m) turbine at the world-famous site near Lewes, East Sussex, was approved by the Government in July last year to much criticism from a consortium of environmental groups who said it would ruin the picturesque landscape.
Now the South Downs Environmental Protection Consortium has said that data gathered by a wind mast which has been measuring wind speeds at the proposed site for the past year shows that the power likely to be generated by the turbine is a third less than predicted.
Ruth Chambers, of the Campaign for National Parks, said: "This data casts serious doubt on the plans for a large turbine at Glyndebourne. Common sense should now prevail."
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