Visual Impact
Wind turbines have “grown” in scale over recent years so that most new structures will reach
100 metres or more into the sky. The ones being proposed for Wellow are 100 metres and 110 metres from ground
level to blade tip, at the highest point, so that:
- Each Wellow turbine would dwarf the largest wind turbines in Cornwall (see photo of scale model)
- Each Wellow turbine would stand 3 or 13 metres taller (above the ground level) than the tower of “Big Ben”.
- Turbines 1 and 5 would be 2 metres taller (above the ground level) than St. Paul’s Cathedral.
- The bases of the Wellow turbines would be set 45 to 60 metres above sea level, with that the structures would
reaching up to 160 metres above sea level in total and so be visible from much of the Isle of Wight and from Bournemouth,
the New Forest, Southampton and Portsmouth.
- Blade tips would reach 30 metres further into the sky than the nearby Tapnell Down, which is within an Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
- Blade tips would reach almost as high above sea level as the 165 metres of the Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower.
- The 41 metre length blades of each turbine would “wipe” an area of 1.3 acres, more than the surface area of a full
scale football pitch (100 x 50 metres).
- Each turbine blade would be over 10 metres longer than the wing of a jumbo jet (Boeing 747-400)
Scale model of largest wind turbine type in Cornwall (left) and 110 metre turbine (right) planned for Wellow.
Building (also to scale) is the Cineworld complex in Newport, Isle of Wight. Vehicles and people are oversize.
Impression of the view from The Solent - when approaching Yarmouth by ferry - if the ‘West Wight Technology
Park’ were built at Wellow.
If the wind power project is approved, a dramatic change to the landscape would be with us for 20 years or more and is likely to
be hugely damaging to the island’s tourist economy.
To give an idea of scale, the nearest turbine (far right) would be 2.7 miles away from the photographer!
Note: This visual representation was created using mathematical calculations and with reference to large scale maps, to
determine, as far as possible, the precise locations and scale, to show the impact that the ‘ West Wight Technology Park’
would have on the landscape.
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Wind Turbine compared to 5.5ft Person
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Wind Turbine campared with a football pitch
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Wind Turbine being transported in sections
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Wind Turbine foundation being excavated
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Comparing the scale of a Wind Turbine
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