The company Your Energy wants to erect ten 100-metre high turbines on farm land at Laughton near Gainsborough.

West Lindsey District Council has been recommended to approve the development when it meets on Wednesday.

But local opponents say the planned turbines, which will stand taller than Lincoln Cathedral, will be noisy and ruin the landscape.

Industrial development

Charles Sandham, the director of Your Energy, admits they are imposing but thinks they look elegant.

He said: "The machines are large, I can't back away from that - the machines do stand 100m tall and do have an impact on the landscape.

"I think they are moving art and don't have a problem with them but obviously some people do.

But Colin Davie, from the campaign group Lincolnshire Opposed to Onshore turbines or LOOT, says turbines are certainly not works of art.

"They are industrial structures, an industrial development in open countryside. There is nothing artistic about them.