Controversial plans to build two windfarms close to an East Riding village have been rejected. Dozens of residents packed a meeting in Beverley to hear the East Riding Council’s planning committee throw out the proposals for a total of 12 turbines, standing more than 400ft tall to the tip of the blade, in two developments just over a mile apart at Spaldington. Feelings had been running high in the days leading up to the meeting, with councillors receiving a “deluge” . . .