Gainsborough Member of Parliament Edward Leigh MP has voiced his opposition to a proposed wind farm at Corringham outside Gainsborough. The proposed windmills would stand over 400 feet tall, making them taller than Lincoln Cathedral or Big Ben. Mr. Leigh said:

“As a countryside dweller and frequent rambler I am totally opposed to the building of wind farms which are beginning to blight our rural areas.

“Not only are these structures an offense to behold and to hear, they are entirely economically unjustifiable and are made ‘profitable’ only by massive subsidies from central government. In this trying times when many of us are feeling the pinch, government should end these counter-productive subsidies and make sure that money stays in the pockets of working people rather than subsidy scroungers.”

Edward Leigh MP recently joined over a hundred Members of Parliament in signing a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron calling for the subsidy for on-shore wind farms to be scrapped entirely, and for the National Planning Policy Framework to ensure that local views are given priority when considering applications for on-shore wind farms.