Mr Head said the windfarm would be too close to houses and needs to be sited somewhere else.

Landscape architect Jeremy Head said the windfarm was an industrial development which would loom over the sensitive Blueskin Bay area.

Ms Rodgers said the windfarm would be a New Zealand first to reduce reliance on oil and carbon, and should be copied.

They said the windfarm would have a massive impact on their lives, ruining their rural paradise with 90m towers, night noise and bird deaths.