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Auchtermuchty Landscape and Environment Group

What Will It Look Like?

It is hard to imagine what five 100 metre high turbines on the outskirts of Auchtermuchty will look like.

As a rough guide the pylons that march across Glassarts and past the common are only 50 metres tall, so the wind turbines will be twice that high.

The following pictures are computer-generated and give an approximate indication of what the windfarm will look like from different places around town.
Proposed windfarm at Auchtermuchty

View from Demperston (west of Auchtermuchty)
Proposed windfarm at Auchtermuchty

Another view from Demperston (west of Auchtermuchty)
Proposed windfarm at Auchtermuchty

View from Dunshalt (south of Auchtermuchty)
Proposed windfarm at Auchtermuchty

View from the church
Proposed windfarm at Auchtermuchty

View from Backdykes

These pictures help to bring home how close this development is to the town and how high the turbines will be.

Note: these pictures were generated before EnergieKontor publicised the exact positions of the turbines and are based on informed conjecture.

And finally, to put the size of the proposed turbines in a perspective that residents of Auchtermuchty will appreciate, here is a drawing of one of the turbines next to Auchtermuchty Town Hall and bell tower.

 

(copyright Drew Bennett 2006)
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