Residents awoke at the weekend to suddenly be confronted by a massive offshore sea-crane which usually means only one thing - the installation of more wind turbines.
Tendring District Council's Planning department have certainly failed for residents here. Have we heard anything from the council about this, have we been given a chance to object? NO.
Personally as a "Green" policy supporter - I'm pretty keen on Windfarms, but surely this should have been installed near the other ones further up the coast - or further out to sea like the distant array beyond the Clacton-On-Sea ones... rather than spoiling the natural unspoilt area that is Colne Point?
One of my contacts in Government provided some information that nobody else in Local Government has - The turbine apparently is a 6 Megawatt model, almost twice the generation capability of normal models (3.5 Megawatts), so the question is, as an experimental one... will it remain there, how many more are going to appear - why is it so near us and not the rest of the Gunfleet sands array and how long will they stay there - and why do we bother to pay so much council tax each year if the planning system isn't working for the people who actually pay for local government?
UPDATE:
As residents have now seen, nothing happened after this, the crane disappeared after a few days, and we have no idea what was going on, possibly this was due to the trunking and cabling work that appeared on Jaywick beach late in the summer, perhaps new cabling was being laid - Or perhaps foundations were being built and a turbine will appear at a later date?
Only "Dong Energy" (the company involved) and the government actually know what is going on off our shores.
