The image to the right is a photomontage. It shows how the proposed wind turbine as it would appear on the Hills.

The proposed wind turbine would be six and a half times the height of the Angel of the North!

(Both images courtesy of Vicky White).

 

The Council's proposal was discovered on the Council's website by an alert THPG member. THPG was determined to oppose this ill-conceived plan, which would have had a profoundly negative impact on the amenity value of Tunstall Hills.

Click HERE to read the council document, recommending the erection of two wind turbines: one on Tunstall Hills and the other in Hetton Lyons Park.

Click HERE to read THPG's press release.

Sunderland Echo article revealing that the Council was 'reviewing it's plans': HERE

 

Although there has been no official confirmation that the wind turbine proposals have been dropped, THPG believes that the Council no longer intends to proceed with the plan.