Lt-COL Ewen Southby-Tailyour, of Ermington, writes:

The article about the solar panel 'farm' at Ermington was instructive, as was the reply in this week's letters page.

Your readers might like to know that the same landowner is now seeking permission to plant a wind turbine on the very summit of Ley Green: one of the highest points within a circle of 10 miles radius.

If erected, the tip of this 90m (295ft) high turbine will be 236m (774ft) above sea level and be visible to very many parishes – not just Ermington – on the skyline for many miles through 360 degrees: from Dartmoor – it will be higher than Hanger Down – to the coast and from Plymouth to beyond Modbury and Ugborough.

It will also be visible by night as the Ministry of Defence/ RAF regulations will require it to be lit.

Let us hope that the relevant parish, district, and county councillors have learned from Clickland's solar panel 'experience' and, this time, listen to their constituents. That way we should be able to nip this ill-judged project before any more time, money and human energy is expended.

Like everyone, I trust, I am in full support of renewable energy but only in the right place.

Dominating a large area of prime farming land of gently rolling hills and valleys is, most emphatically, not the right place.