WEST Devon Planning Committee and English Heritage have objected to a single wind powered electricity generator on a dairy farm as reported by the Times on March 6.

Perhaps some of them remember the fuss that was made when high pylons and electricity cables were strung from generating stations to towns across beautiful countryside and in sight of castles and noble ancestral homes.

Perhaps they must be reminded that every embryo railway company had to get an authorising Act of Parliament to lay their tracks and stations across the same fair ground.

Yet every pylon, every cable, every mile of railway and every railway station was accepted as an unremarkable feature of the countryside within a generation.

In the case of the farm generator we have yet another example of blinkered bureaucracy thwarting the legitimate aspirations of over-stressed country folk.

G Kirkpatrick

Tavistock