BBC News - Bigger wind farm buffer zones 'needed to protect some homes':
"Welsh government planning guidance says 500 metres should separate homes from wind turbines.Read the entire article at the BBC News site:
But the committee said that should be a minimum distance and in some circumstances - depending on the topography and ambient noise levels - the buffer zone should increase to 1,500 metres.
Although the landscape can shield people from sound, the report says one respondent living within 1km of a wind farm said the sound echoed off a nearby mountain into the valley where they lived.
In a report, the committee says faulty turbines should be switched off at night if they start making more noise."
The minimum separation distance should be 8 km to another owner’s property lines, to any roads, railways or any other public lands . Now if a developer wanted a nearby property owner to waive their right to the mandatory 8 km separation distance and were willing to pay for that waiver, that would fine and the market should dictate the price for reducing the distance. This would be the only fair way to make the fair adjustments for degradation of property values. If I had a house next door to a potential development and based on the degradation of property values I was looking at a $200,000 drop, well.... we at least know where the floor starts and it can only go up from there.
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