Peace At Last For Family Who Won Court Battle To Silence Turbine
Victoria Allen, Scottish Daily Mail, 25 May 2013
A family whose lives were made a misery by a neighbour’s noisy wind turbine have become the first in Scotland to get a court order to shut it down.
Retired civil servant Aileen Jackson, 54, was left powerless when her neighbour built a 64ft turbine only 300 yards from her house.
It kept her family awake every night, producing the noise of a ‘small helicopter’ and leaving them exhausted.
The farmer next door, who was selling the energy produced to the national Grid, refused to switch the machine off.
So Mrs Jackson became the first person in Scotland to fight a turbine in the courts – with the legal fees covered by her home insurance.