TO say that the proposed Navitus Bay Wind Park is ‘visually negligible’ is simply untrue (Letters, June 17).

This will be the world's biggest wind farm, with 200-plus turbines, taller than most London skyscrapers.

Furthermore, the massed ranks of giant turbines will be as close as eight miles offshore – well inside even the government's proposed limits – and therefore clearly visible to the millions of locals and tourists who enjoy the iconic views from our bay.

With the news that wind power is not economically sustainable, and that new energy technologies such as unconventional gas exploration and carbon capture and storage are in the pipeline, surely the government must think again before inflicting this expensive eyesore on the people of Bournemouth and Poole.

It is time to see sense and stop this industrialisation of our seaside now.

PHILIP DEWHURST, McKinley Road, Bournemouth