There has been a development in recent weeks, relevant to the Earl's Hall Farm wind turbine project. This is the the fact that there IS now a general blueprint for development policy in Tendring until 2011, ie the so-called Tendring Local Plan. This "Plan" is likely to be rubber-stamped by Councillors on 11th December. To complete Tendring’s housing programme out to 2011, there remain 3,325 dwellings to be built. By far the biggest single “parcel” of development is that in NW Clacton, or more precisely on land adjacent to 398-508 Saint John’s Road (356 dwellings) and 522-524 Saint John’s Road (43). Indeed this development makes up 12% of Tendring’s entire housing regeneration provision in the period. This site will be only 700m, with its centre at less than 1km, distant from the nearest wind turbine. Clearly the proposed community, of almost 400 houses, is in addition to the 320 existing dwellings we have identifed as being too close to the wind farm. The existence of a wind farm so close may thus jeopardise one of the lynch-pins of Tendring’s urban regeneration programme. Tendring Local Plan Policy "COM22 - Noise Pollution" stipulates:" Noisy developments should be located away from sensitive developments unless adequate provision has been made to mitigate the adverse effects of noise likely to be generated or experienced by others.”