Villagers are 'bombarded with plans'

Residents in a village near Market Drayton claim they are being "bombarded" with plans to build windfarms.

The claim comes as developers linked to a third windfarm near the town revealed it would be "at least a year" before they table any official plans.

Xavier Arnould, of Bristol-based Wind Prospect Developments Limited, today confirmed the company had made inquiries to regional planning chiefs about building a windfarm between the Staffordshire villages of Maer and Ashley.

Councillors and residents in and around Loggerheads are currently fighting two planned windfarms earmarked for sites within a five-mile radius.

Mr Arnould said: "With these kinds of projects we have many surveys to do in terms of ecological, visual, noise and community impact so it would be at least a year before any planning application."

He confirmed the firm had been told any plans would undergo a strict environmental impact assessment in a letter from the Government Office for the West Midlands.

Loggerheads Parish Council chairman Ed Martin said today: "We are just being bombarded at the moment with windfarm plans."