Property prices may plummet
Location. Location. Location. We bought our house here because of the beautiful views and quiet countryside.
Would you buy your house now when the threat of these turbines hangs over the valley, or would you choose another village? It seems that our neighbours trying to sell their houses are finding it difficult.
Your house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. In Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, Mrs Davies moved out of her house because she could not stand the noise from turbines 930 metres away. Local estate agents have acknowledged that the house is now so severely blighted that nobody is likely to buy it. Read the full article... Now they have started court proceedings to recover their loss. Read the full article...
Richard and Lynne Lethbridge’s estate agent told them to expect a devaluation of 33% on their £500,000 home (three smaller turbines at 100m). He added “its not going to help many properties within a mile of it…people move to this area for its beauty”. Read the full article...
A judge in Cumbria awarded compensation of 20% of the market value of a house because of damage to visual amneity, noise pollution and irritating flickering after the vendors failed to disclose that a wind turbine was to be erected 500m away. Read the full articles... Westmorland Gazette and Daily Telegraph
What would such a drop in value of your house mean to you and your family?
Let's be generous and say these figures are overstated – what about 10%, feeling any more comfortable now?
Join us and help us fight this industrial development in the Trent Valley.
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Stone & Trent Valley opposed to Severn Trent Water
