MABRAKE – Milton Abbot, BRadstone And KElly Action group.

Please note a very important Public meeting will be held at the Village Hall, Milton Abbot on the 24th September at 7.30pm to discuss the Ramsdown Wind Turbine Application. Both MUREX and MABRAKE have been invited to speak.
This meeting has been set up by the MAGPC (Milton Abbot Grouped Parish Council) and it is important that once again as many people attend as possible as the Council members will take into account the result when considering their own response to WDBC.
Leaflets advertising this event will be circulated to all houses within the MAGPC and Kelly and Meadwell areas some time next week.

MABRAKE Meeting – Lewdown.
As most of you already know a very successful meeting was held at the Victory Hall, Lewdown on Monday 1st September when some 130+ people filled the hall to capacity to learn about MABRAKE and see if it would be possible to form a Stowford Action Group. A Donations Box left at the rear of the hall collected some £254 which was a great start. A number of people stepped forward to form a committee and a few more offered there services should the need arise.

Parish Council Meeting – Stowford.
The Parish Council at Stowford organised this meeting and invited Murex and MABRAKE to speak on the proposed wind turbine planned for Wreys Barton Farm. Some 100+ people attended with many carrying placards clearly indicating what they thought of the idea!
Steve Ellam and Walter Wannacott represented Murex and Neil Farrington represented Cornwall Power Cornwall and all three spoke on their subject resulting in a very large and diverse range of questions from the audience.
David Gynn (Secretary) spoke on behalf of MABRAKE (Our Chairman having decided this was a good month to go on holiday) and filled in some facts not surprisingly omitted by Murex and finished by asking the audience if they wanted a wind turbine in Stowford – the resultant NO was enough to deafen the average person.
The Chairman of the meeting (Dave Hewitt) closed the meeting by asking if anyone was in support of the development with the result being dead silence. The end of a very good meeting.

Formation of Stowford and Lewdown Turbine Action Group – SALT.
Following the meeting at Lewdown, the group of volunteers got themselves together and formed a Committee. The Chairman elected was Doug Muir, the Vice-Chairman Simon Wolstenholm, Treasurer Bill Steele and the Secretary Nick Barton.The first item on the agenda was the name and that is given above. The Group have already commenced emailing all new members welcoming them aboard.
All members of SALT will automatically be added to the MABRAKE mailing list so that we are all kept in touch with each others news.

What a huge success last nights meeting was!

Some One hundred and thirty people crammed into the Village Hall at Lewdown on Monday evening the 1st September to hear the Mabrake Secretary (David Gynn) and Mabrake Chairman (Dr Gary Vanstone) explain the consequences of allowing a 77m wind turbine to be built at Wreys Barton Farm Stowford and what Mabrake could do to help.

A ZTV (Zone of Theoretical Vision) produced by Mabrake attracted much attention. This was centred on the proposed site at Wreys Barton farm, to show people the elevations of the surrounding area and where this turbine would be seen from.

A number of people volunteered to help form a committee and this will be set up over the next few days.  A handsome sum of £274 was collected in donations. If anyone did not see the Donations Box and would like to contribute please email the Secretary at mabrake@btinternet.com

A big thank you to all those who helped make the evening such a success!