1:00pm Wednesday 21st March 2007
By Rachel Pegg
Environmentalists are being urged to support an application to build a wind turbine at Glyndebourne Opera House.
Green campaigners have invited people to write to Lewes District Council in support of the bid.
Several organisations are objecting to the proposal to build a 44-metre high turbine, which would rise to 70 metres to the top of the blade.
They include the South Downs Joint Committee, Ringmer Parish Council and the South Downs Society.
But now residents are being asked to counter those objections by writing in favour to the district council's planning office.
In a sample letter, Adrienne Campbell of climate change campaign group Transition Town Lewes, writes: "We are living in a time where we need dramatically to reduce use of fossil fuels in order to reduce CO2 emissions. We also need to start looking at many different ways to generate renewable fuels in order to build resilience into our communities and prepare for the end of cheap oil and the transition to a post-oil economy.
"I have no objection to the appearance of a large wind turbine or even a colony of them; on the contrary I find them beautiful and symbolic of a healthy future."
The application is expected to come up before the council's planning committee in June at the earliest.
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