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Article: Family win battle over wind turbine.
- Article from:
- Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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GREEN energy is going to arrive in Whitchurch after a family were told they could build a wind turbine at their new house.
Rosemary and Nigel Leheup are building a house, called Barrettstown Manor Farm, on Oving Road which they hope to make as environmentally friendly as they can by using solar panels and ground source heating.
The 20kW wind turbine is expected to provide about a third of the total energy needed for the house and will stand 15 metres tall, a five-metre reduction to an application previously submitted by the family in 2006.
Mrs Leheup had this advice for anyone considering applying for such a structure.
"We were very ...