WHILE I have in the past criticised many opponents of the Navitus Bay wind farm scheme for misguided analysis and misjudgement, I have never before levelled such charges against the anti-windfarm group Challenge Navitus.

The Echo (Feb 1) reported Challenge Navitus saying that their images of the windfarm were around 60 per cent bigger than current guidance and that this would have a dramatic effect on the perception of (the) scale of the windfarm. Indeed, the Challenge Navitus website does show images with the turbines at least 60 per cent taller than reality.

And as the website describes viewing distances as ‘comfortable’ (rather than in feet and inches), the images will likely be seen taller still if arms are not long enough to hold the images at the presumed “comfortable” distance.

I find this is staggering. Already we have ruling council groups and almost all Dorset’s MPs seeing this scheme as entirely unwelcoming.

Now the main opposing group has lost grip on reality.

(For those who still believe that photographs don’t lie, the Navitus website images can be usefully magnified with viewing distances five time the width of the map in the image’s bottom right hand corner.)

DR MARTIN RODGER, Bloxworth Road, Poole