Campaigners vow to halt turbines on Brontë moor

Campaigners against a plan to build giant wind turbines on moors associated with the Brontë sisters are making a final attempt to convince councillors and planners to ditch the proposal.

Campaigners against a plan to build giant wind turbines on moors associated with the Brontë sisters are making a final attempt to convince councillors and planners to ditch the proposal.

People living close to Thornton Moor, west of Bradford, are hoping to stop the development in its tracks at a meeting next week.

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The moor is a couple of miles from the famous parsonage at Haworth where the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – and their family lived, and which is now preserved as a museum.

Experts say their work – including Emily’s Wuthering Heights – was heavily influenced by the moorland landscape.

The Brontë Way footpath also runs straight across Thornton Moor. Developers want to build four turbines next to the route of the path.

Councillors meet on Wednesday to decide whether to allow the first stage of the plan – a 200ft wind monitoring mast.

Anthea Orchard, who lives in nearby Denholm Gate and chairs the Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group, said the Brontë connection was only part of their objection.

She said: “It’s too close to a Site of Special Scientific Interest and other important sites.

“Quite simply, the site is totally inappropriate and we’re determined to fight it.”

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