A huge wind turbine for Hebburn has won town hall planning approval by just two votes – despite some councillors admitting they wouldn’t want it on their doorstep.
The thumbs-up has been given to the turbine, which will be as tall as six Angels of the North, to be built at the A&P Tyne shipyard.
But at a meeting of the council’s eight-person planning committee this week, opinion on the development was divided.
Nineteen residents had objected to the plan, claiming it . . .

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