“Don’t let this Frankenstein project be termed as a success when it hasn’t even started working yet!” That is the message from a Fairlie campaigner who has questioned how the massive turbines at Hunterston can be heralded a success when the turbines haven’t even begun operation as yet.

Mr David Telford, who set up the NAV-OV group (North Ayrshire Vandalised Our Village), believes a report in the National Planning Framework 3 (NPF3) for Scotland which is in its final stages of approval, is ‘misleading’.

Only one turbine has been fully installed, while the second turbine is currently under construction and will be taller, reaching 200m. The SSE development includes Mitsubishi and Siemens turbines with five years planning permission. A third turbine is still to follow.

The proposed NPF3 is now before the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee of the Scottish Government for final scutiny prior to formal ratification by the Scottish Parliament.

In a letter to the committee, Mr Telford writes: “There is one aspect of this document that troubles me and, as such, I will be most grateful if your Committee will give careful consideration to those concerns, as outlined below, with a view to possible amendment to the proposed NPF3. Paragraph 3.40 states the following: “Activities which could align with our national strategy include manufacturing and servicing support for offshore renewable energy development, building on the success of the onshore test facility for offshore wind turbines” “I am of the view that referring to the barely commenced, experimental test facility at Hunterston as a ‘success’ is both misleading and dangerous. To have granted planning permission for such turbines to be operated within 1000m of human habitation is in my view irresponsible. By this action many thousands of individuals in Fairlie, Millport, West Kilbride and Largs have been made unwilling ‘guinea pigs’ to this extremely dangerous experiment.

“The evidence of the danger to human health from the infrasound (inaudible low frequency sound) emitted by large wind turbines is increasing on a daily basis and is being widely reported. Similarly, as recently as 2013, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ruled that the United Kingdom was in breach of Article 7 of the Aarhus Convention, in that it had failed to adequately advise the public of the dangers that wind turbines threaten to human health.

In his letter, Mr Telford requested that the committee amend the paragraph to reflect the fears of his local group.

The NAV-OV group is currently seeking to have the planning permission challenged in the courts as being foolhardy and dangerous and hence out-with the powers of North Ayrshire Council to consent.

Mr Telford added: “We further believe that emerging science on the subject of ‘infrasound’ now clearly demonstrates that wind turbines of the size and location of those in place and planned for Hunterston are extremely dangerous to humans, and that this operational experiment must, as a consequence, cease forthwith.”