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The Angle of the North

The second worse visual pollution of fine landscape in the country.
Second only to wind powered generators (so called wind turbines)

Back on subject.
If Abbey Road is now a listed building, does that condemn it to a life of a fixed time warp??
What is listed, the outside or the inside??
The inside is the important bit, but does that mean the studios & equipment need to get prior approval for the almost constant need for continuous upgrades & modifications thereby keeping it at the leading edge of recording excellence.
The outside is just a building of no real aesthetic value, but does it mean permission & restrictions to repaint the walls or replace windows.

Just can't see the sense of it.

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The second worse visual pollution of fine landscape in the country.
Second only to wind powered generators (so called wind turbines)

Just what they would have said on this forum in the 18th century when they started building windmills, canals and a little later railway lines and infrastructure. Admittedly it was for practical rather than esthetic reasons.

We have several "scrap" metal sculptures on the towns roundabouts, you get used to them after a while, I bet they would be missed if they went.

IMO windturbines looks better than power stations.

BigH, points well made & no arguments
My issue with wind-turbines (wind farms) is the visual impact over such a huge area

Yes the land can be used for farming, but in locations on hill tops that even the hardiest sheep have trouble with.
Yes they can be used for fish conservation areas, but in shallow areas that most food fish population avoid.

My area has Didcot power station in the distance, its actually 2 power station on one site.
The power station feature that people object to is the 6 cooling towers & the steam (pollution free water vapour) clouds.
This site area is aprx 1.2km2
The generators produce - 2000MW coal, 1500MW natural gas, 10MW bio-fuel. = 3510MW

Compared to a wind farm
Whitelee (Glasgow) is Europe’s largest wind farm
The farm area is 25km2.
140 turbines generate 322MW
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In defence of the Whitelee area, it has been structured with walks, cycle paths & wildlife activities.
Not something to be recommended in Didcot.

Final point is my local windmill is only 100 foot high & is a tourist attraction.

I guess we all need to get used to a changing landscape & stop preserving the past.
Talking of which, what about Abbey Road ???

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Not something to be recommended in Didcot.

T'internet is a great thing but when one is forced to make a leap from saving a recording studio that has produced little of merit in the past three decades beyond, ironcally, exercises in preserving our musical heritage, all the way to "all our woes are down to individuals we didn't vote for and don't like" (as opposed to systems) then one has to stand back occasionally and recognise that you are perhaps not participants in intellectual table tennis solving the worlds problems if only someone would see the sense in what you say but more participants in an episode of Grumpy Old Men!

Mike

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We have several "scrap" metal sculptures on the towns roundabouts

Spookily I was discussing with a colleague the giant metal cock on the big roundabout in Dorking earlier this morning! I do wonder who makes the decision to go ahead with these installations.

As far as saving Abbey Road, I'm surprised Hard Rock Cafe haven't made a bid for it.