I WAS surprised to read (Argus, July 4) that Monmouthshire Borough Council’s planning committee voted to go against the recommendations of its officers, who had given very good reasons for refusing an application for two 100m wind turbines within a coastal protection zone on the Gwent levels. I find it hard to believe that there were no objections locally.

I have just spent a few days in North Devon, where I was shocked to find that I couldn’t travel far without having the stillness of the countryside ruined by flailing blades. These turbines really are landscape wreckers. R. H. Aston Pengam Blackwood