Welcome to Stop Kelmarsh Wind Farm
Kelmarsh Hall is a Grade 1 listed building in northern Northamptonshire owned by a private charitable Trust. The gardens are also listed, and it has an estate of over three thousand acres which is farmed by tenant farmers.
Kelmarsh Hall derives its income from events such as the annual English Heritage Festival of History, Game Fair and Christmas Fair, and from weddings.
The Trustees of the Kelmarsh Hall Trust are proposing to have seven wind turbines erected on estate grounds south of the A14 and next to the Civil War battlefield of Naseby which borders the Kelmarsh Hall estate to the West. The primary object of the Kelmarsh Hall Trust is to “preserve for the benefit of the nation monuments, buildings of national historic or architectural or artistic interest and importance and to protect and improve the amenities of such buildings and their surroundings”. The height of the proposed turbines is 120m each, and they will therefore be visible from Kelmarsh Hall and for 15-25 miles around it, including from the Naseby battlefield.
The last private owner of Kelmarsh Hall, Miss Valencia Lancaster, set up the Kelmarsh Hall Trust in order to put into action her brother’s deep wish to preserve the estate in perpetuity as a traditional working English estate. The Stop Kelmarsh Hall Windfarm Campaign does not consider that Colonel or Miss Lancaster’s wishes would have included the erection of a windfarm, or the risk that such a development would bring of having the entire area re-classified and open to further industrial development.
The Stop Kelmarsh Hall Windfarm Campaign believe that moving to renewable energy is important for the future of the planet, but that facilities such as windfarms should be in the right place. On an estate listed in the Domesday Book and overlooking – indeed, overpowering – the site of the most important battle of the English Civil War is not the right place. In addition, the area is known for its wildlife populations (including protected species such as bats) which would be affected by the turbines, and the site is metres from the A14, and the most dangerous stretch of that road in Northamptonshire. Turbines blades of 90m catching the sunlight will do nothing to improve the accident statistics.
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