Sir – In Reg Little’s delightful piece on Flora’s first visit to Lark Rise (Juniper Hill) (Feature, July 22), Olivia Hallinan, who plays the part, is told “this is the view you would have had from your cottage” and responds “I find it quite magical . . . I didn’t know how unchanged it would be”.

Not for long, alas. It will soon be dominated by the array of giant wind turbines recently permitted at nearby Fewcott, which will overwhelm views from Flora’s, and Queenie’s, cottages.

These turbines, strongly opposed by local villagers, and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, and unanimously rejected by Cherwell district councillors, have now been imposed on them from Whitehall by Grant Shapps, the very Secretary of State who is telling us that his aim is “Localism”, giving the final say on planning decisions to locals. Because Oxfordshire is a relatively windless inland county, the turbines he has permitted, over the heads of local people, will produce very little in the way of renewable energy, and then only spasmodically, but will be a monstrous eyesore, damaging the amenity of local villagers, and landscape and communities over 300 square miles of countryside.

It is surely only right that in the light of his recently proclaimed localism agenda, the Secretary of State should listen to the people of Fewcott and North Oxfordshire and change his mind.

Flora’s view could then remain magical.

Michael Tyce, Waterstock