We have a wind farm being built very close to us, how off putting is this to potential purchasers?

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I am pretty concerned.

We bought our home last year and no mention of the wind farm was made by either the vendor or the estate agents and the development looks to have fallen just outside of the search parameter. Both the vendor and the estate agents knew about the development being approved and within a few months of us living in the house we had a letter from the wind farm company telling us building work was imminent. Until this letter arrived we had no clue anything was happening at all.

We live in a village pretty close to a busy A road and this road is kind of a valley where we are in the hill on one side and the wind turbines are being built on the hill on the other side. Because if this (I have now found out) it feels as though we have these turbines a stones throw away.

Only one pillar so far has been built, it is so huge I am shocked. When it has it's turbine in place on the top it is going to be monstrous. There will be six of them. They won't be visible from our back garden I don't think but are extremely visible from most places in the village. In terms of any noise I have no idea yet, I don't think we will be close enough to hear humming but until they are switched on I can't say for definite.

So with all this said, if we want to sell our house in the future do you think we are going to struggle? I was feeling ok about it but now I see the size of them I feel pretty sick about it

Surely this should have come up when you had searches done? Planning for a wind farm doesn't happen overnight and there would have been documentation available I would have thought.

I am against them, fighting one locally, and it would put me off yes. But I think that for everyone of me there is probably another person who wouldn't mind at all. It reduces the available pool of buyers, and may slow down the purchase, but it would sell.

Frosty our solicitor said it fell just outside of the search parameter when we approached them after the sale. It was by some stupid amount. We were very unlucky it seems.

I think they are popping up all over the place now so probably give it another 5 years and you'll be hard pressed not to be close to one, particularly if you're rural.

There's two wind turbines near a village just up the road from us. Since they've been up they've promoted 327 complaints about light flicker and wind noise here.

I think they look lovely whenever I drive past them but I don't have to live next to them. You can hear a constant hum, like there's a plane flying overhead. I suppose it's like living near a main road with traffic noise and lights but I wouldn't want to live there either.