CONTROVERSIAL plans for three large wind turbines near Crow Edge have been lodged with Barnsley council.

The turbines would be 100 metres high, producing enough electricity to power 4,000 homes, and would be built at Hazlehead behind the Hepworth works.

Banks Developments expect a decision by the council at around the turn of the year.

Project manager Rob Williams said: “This proposed development would make a significant contribution to addressing local requirements for renewable energy. “We’ve undertaken extensive community consultations as part of developing this scheme and have taken feedback into account when drawing up the proposals which have now been submitted.”

He added original plans for 125-metre high turbines were scrapped in favour of the shorter ones after consultation with local communities.

But residents in Dunford and Crow Edge have objected to the proposals since they were revealed in January and this week people living in Carlecotes added their concerns.

Janette Whitehead lives on Brook Hill Lane and said the new turbines would simply add to an existing eyesore problem. “They are wanting to put these three massive, towering wind turbines just at the bottom of our road. “When you run your eye along the horizon, you will then meet the 13 at Royd Moor. It is going to be visually terrible, one continuous line of wind turbines. “These one are 100 metres high and we are fairly high on the hill anyway, so we will be looking straight at the blades.”