Plans for turbines and wind farm

An application to build wind turbines is opposed by local people

A car manufacturer has set down plans to build two 415ft (127m) wind turbines at a site it owns in Northamptonshire.

Mercedes Benz has applied to Daventry District Council for permission to build turbines on land in Brixworth.

The council has also had an application for a 200ft (60m) high meterological mast to measure wind speeds.

Bolsterstone Innovative Energy wants to build a mast between Brixworth and Hanging Houghton but some residents are opposing plans for a wind farm there.

The application relates to an area of land Derbyshire-based property developer Bolsterstone has identified as suitable for a proposed wind farm.

It is seeking permission for a period of one year to complete meteorological monitoring of the wind resource.

The Lodge Farm Wind Farm Action Group has been set up to fight the wind farm projects.

Its spokesman David Ward, from Hanging Houghton, said the turbines would be much higher than the tower of Brixworth's rare Anglo Saxon All Saints Church.

"We do not want the scenic value of the area to be destroyed," he said.

"We get a lot of information about how good wind farms are but they are only suitable for certain places and this part of England is not one of them."