from https://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news ... rks-outcryThe dull grey turbine, installed by safety company TAG Limited, only has one downward pointing propeller and will be used for training at heights.
I would ask how you balance the employment provided by the training provider and maybe hospitality needed by people attending, against an industrial structure in a post-industrial area? There were lots of abandoned mills with chimneys all the way up that valley until very recently, the last one by the railway line and canal only converted to accommodation in the last month or two...Richard Booley, who bought his £1.2 million house after years of searching for the property of his dreams to renovate, received a huge shock as the towering turbine rose from the near-by Tanners Mill site.
The company director, who also bought the fields between his stunning home in Hollins Lane and Holmfirth Road to ensure the panoramic valley view remained unspoilt, said: “I was just horrified, it looked like a caravan on a big stick. At first I thought it was a temporary inflatable thing but I couldn’t believe it when it was still there the day after.
“People will look at that now and ask what next, I was just flabbergasted that I did not know anything about it. If I had known I might not have bought the property.
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Another local couple, who have a prominent view of the structure, say they too did not know it was going ahead until planning permission had been passed. They said: “We are outraged that we had absolutely no say.
“We know that you can’t buy a view, but how they can put that on the edge of the Peak Park is beyond us.”
