![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/our-views-will-be-ruined-by-pylons/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/newspress-collage-23622868-1692811274321.jpg&description=LOCALS fear giant wind turbines will spoil the views in their home town and are turning down compensation payments worth £5,000. Some farmers hope to make £100,000 per year profits from the generators while neighbours and friends have rejected £5,000 compensation payments. 2 Will Barstow and Natalie Barstow who own Fforest Fields, Caravan & Camping Site Credit: WNS 2 The proposed wind farm has torn the community apart Credit: WNS The proposed wind farm has torn the community apart and led to trouble at the school gates. One mum feared her car was going to be "bricked" at the local primary school. Roads around the village of Hundred House in Powys, Wales , are littered with signs and posters protesting against the Nant Mithil scheme to build 36 wind turbines 250 metres high - the same height as London's Shard. One landowner, too afraid to be named, said: 'It has become very confrontational and it's splitting families apart. 'Some people have signed to get £100,000-a-year for having a wind generator - you can't blame them. 'But others have been offered a one-off payment of £5,000 compensation for having a pylon near their homes and they are turning that down.' The power struggle is being waged in Mid Wales where Scottish company Bute Energy wants to build a wind farm and hundreds of pylons connecting it to the national grid. Roads around the village of Hundred House in Powys are littered with signs and posters protesting against the Nant Mithil scheme to build 36 wind turbines 250 metres high - the same height as London's Shard. Farmers are furious that after being told to diversify into tourism their country cottages and campsites will no longer be attractive to holidaymakers. The Barstow family who turned their 500-acre farm into a five-star all-year-round campsite 30 years ago are now fearing for its future. Mum-of-two Natalie Barstow, 43, said: 'All we've got to trade on is the great outdoors - that's why people come here. 'But will they still come if the campsite){kind=link}
LOCALS fear giant wind turbines will spoil the views in their home town and are turning down compensation payments worth £5,000.
Some farmers hope to make £100,000 per year profits from the generators while neighbours and friends have rejected £5,000 compensation payments.
The proposed wind farm has torn the community apart and led to trouble at the school gates.
One mum feared her car was going to be “bricked” at the local primary school.
Roads around the village of Hundred House in Powys,Wales, are littered with signs and posters protesting against the Nant Mithil scheme to build 36 wind turbines 250 metres high – the same height as London’s Shard.