HAVING recently read in your paper about the electricity generating windmills that farmer Adam Twine wishes to erect on the old airfield at Watchfield, and the opposition of local residents and environmentalists to this, I had an idea that instead of having a windmill effectively on a pole sticking out of the ground, it may be more acceptable to have the windmills designed in such a fashion so they could be lived in.

I understand people live in working windmills in Holland, albeit these are used for pumping water off the reclaimed land, which is below sea level, rather than as would be the case here in England, to generate electricity.

It matters not what the windmill does in the end, pumping water or generating electricity, but if these could also be lived in it would, to coin a phrase, 'kill two birds with one stone' by providing housing also on a site of a considerable area that otherwise would be being used solely on which to stand windmills, thus helping to solve the housing problem.

I bet there are a great many people who would jump at the chance of living in such a windmill, the income from rents being additional to the income from selling the generated electricity.

Perhaps this idea could be looked at by those seeking planning permission to erect power-generating windmills. It may well assist such them to obtain such permission it included homes also.

K A J Head

Cotswold Way

Highworth