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Cornish Guardian:
Complaint about turbine booklet

2 July 2014

A wind farm developer has agreed to stop distributing a booklet which was given to residents in the parish of St Enoder after a complaint was made to the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA). The complaint to ASA argued whether a claim in the booklet that the impact of turbines on house prices diminishes as time goes on was misleading, and whether it could be substantiated. The claims were made despite the publication of a nationwide study in January by the London School of Economics (LSE), which reviewed more than a million homes located near large wind farms over a 12-year period, and found property values fell by 11 per cent.

This article was published in the Cornish Guardian on July 2, 2014
Link to article here

Related publications
'Gone with the Wind: Valuing the Visual Impacts of Wind Turbines through House Prices', Stephen Gibbons, SERC Discussion Paper No.159, April 2014

Related Links
Steve Gibbons webpage
SERC website

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