I WAS pleased to see J Arrowsmith’s letter (‘Wind farm is a huge mistake’, Have Your Say, May 4) highlighting some of the problems with the Navitus Wind Farm planned for an area just eight miles off the beautiful Dorset/Hampshire coastline.

It’s an area which has been precious to me since childhood having been brought up in Bournemouth.

I believe that we shall be able to see the turbines all too clearly.

Navitus turbines are set to be up to 205 metres tall, which is half as tall again as Salisbury Cathedral.

How far away is that visible? That’s just one structure – there will be 133 to 333 turbines between Swanage and the Isle of Wight!

We have friends who say they could only vaguely see the ones off North Wales and this wind farm was twice as far away (16 miles offshore) and almost certainly not as tall – see also evidence on the Challenge Navitus website.

I am not against ‘green energy’ and thoroughly appreciate the need for great efforts to be made in this direction, but I do believe that we should not devastate beautiful areas in an effort to “save the environment”.

May I urge readers of this article to consider – do you want this blight on your coastline (or in any other area within sight of land)?

Please look at the Challenge Navitus website and most of all please take action to make your feelings known before it is too late.

It will be of no use at all being sad at the desolation once it is built.

MARGARET PERRINS Broadshard Lane, Ringwood