Plans to build five wind turbines on countryside in east Kent have been rejected.

Objectors to Ecotricity’s proposals packed into the Dover District Council chamber last night (Thursday) to hear the planning committee discuss the controversial application.

More than 800 protest letters were sent to the council and Langdon Action Group, set up earlier this year to fight the plans, has repeatedly condemned the 120m maximum height of the structures.

After just under an hour, the councillors decided they were against any move to build the turbines near the village of Langdon.

Councillors agreed that if they had been give the opportunity to discuss the application within the time, they would have turned down the proposals.

Their reasons included the turbines being contrary to a long list of planning policies, including being a severe and adverse impact on the landscape.