CHANNEL Four racing commentator Brough Scott and TV personality gardener Alan Titchmarsh are just two of the famous names who have thrown their weight behind a campaign to stop wind turbines being built at an Isle of Wight farm.
Plans to vary planning permission for three wind turbines are due to be discussed by planners at the Island's council on Tuesday.
Both Mr Titchmarsh and Mr Scott have homes on the Isle of Wight. They are objecting to a planning application to site three wind turbines on a farm at Limerstone Down in the west of the Island.
Planning permission was granted to site three turbines at the farm in February 2001.
The latest proposals mean that the length of the blades on the turbines would be increased from 15.5 metres to 22 metres.
The plans have provoked anger from campaigners on the Island including long-time opponents of the scheme, ThWART (The Wight Against Inappropriately Sited Rural Turbines).
Spokesman for the group John Ogden said ThWART was not against renewable energy but against the inappropriate siting of the turbines.
He said: "It is a maverick application, which would desecrate the Island landscape and undermines the Island's renewable energy planning."
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