Article: 400ft windmills plan for Mersey; Turbines will power town size of Crosby.(News)

Byline: BY LARRY NEILD

FIVE wind turbines, each more than 400ft high, could be built on the Mersey river wall, producing enough power to meet the household needs of towns the size of Crosby or Wallasey.

The turbines will join the existing six wind-power generators already erected along the river wall on the Liverpool-Sefton boundary.

The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has submitted planning applications for the pounds 12m development to both Sefton and Liverpool councils.

Three of the proposed turbines will be in Sefton and the other two in Liverpool.

If the go-ahead is given it is anticipated that the turbines will be ...

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