Plans are afoot to build a wind farm of 9 wind turbines just 6 miles from Threlkeld at Berrier on the east side of Blencathra. These will be visually intrusive from quite a few areas in Threlkeld parish. Threlkeld parish council have written to EDC objecting to the wind farm, stressing that the Parish Council are in favour of sustainable technology and would normally support it, but that this is inappropriately sited and would have a detrimental effect on this parish.

Over 1000 objections now recorded against Berrier wind farm and GROWING. Lots of people still do not know about the wind company plans however, so the local, national and world-wide campaign must continue.

• It will diminish an iconic view to and from Blencathra; one of the most famous mountains in Lakeland
• In turn these will blunt the appeal of Sharp Edge; it is one of the finest ridge scrambles in the Lake District.
• It will introduce a discordant and non-harmonious element into the Northern Fells
• It will upset the visual unity of the Lake District National Park as the proposed wind farm is adjacent to the north eastern boundary.
• This is a sensitive environment which will not be able to absorb an industrial development on this scale, the eye will be inexorably drawn to nine, white, steel, three hundred and thirty five foot, rotating windmills, set 1500 foot above sea level, as there are no competing elements to lessen their impact.
• Because the turbines would look down into the national park, the Eden Valley and North Pennines area of outstanding beauty, the visual impact will be more intrusive because the huge structures will be silhouetted against the horizon.
• The Northern Fells are recognised as a landscape of International, National and Local significance, characterised by their quiet, unspoilt beauty; this unique selling point will be lost.
• The Landscape Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) doesn't fully take into account the value to the nation of the aesthetic, social, historical, cultural, literary,archeological, ecological and spiritual quality of this area of Lakeland.
• A LVIA has neither been carried out for Blencathra and Sharp Edge, nor Mungrisdale and associated satellite settlements.

For more information and ways to object to the wind farm visit Berrier Wind Farm Objection Group website