German company Prowind GmbH is interested in building three turbines, which could be as tall as 125 metres, at Brook Farm between Shangton, Stonton Wyville and Tur Langton.

A scoping report has been sent to Harborough District Council, which is a precursor to a planning application.

It is the seventh wind turbine plan to be put forward in the district to go along with separate projects going through the planning system in Lubenham, Gilmorton, Swinford, North Kilworth, Husbands Bosworth and Brixworth.

Speaking to the Mail from Osnabrück, Prowind’s general manager Christopher Small said: “Looking at all the various factors, I doubt that we could start building the turbines until 2011.”

He said plans were in the very early stages and that Prowind has commissioned planning consultants Energa to carry out a feasibility study of the area. The next step would be applying for an 80-metre high anemometer at the site to check wind speeds.

Prowind has put up wind turbines at 16 sites in Germany since being formed in 2000 and is involved with three other planning applications for wind farms in the UK in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.

He added that viability of the project would depend on results from the anemometer but he said the turbines could produce enough energy to power up to 4,361 homes.

The farmland is owned by Wyggeston Hospital Estate, a Leicester-based charity formed in 1513.

Kevin Feltham, a Leicestershire county councillor for the area, said he had concerns the turbines could distract motorists on the nearby B6047 which has seen 64 accidents along a ten-mile section of the road between 2003 and 2007, of which 15 were classed as serious and three were fatal.

The Airtricity energy firm had earmarked farmland near Shangton and Carlton Curlieu as a possible site for wind turbines back in 2006 but that has since been shelved.

A copy of the 32-page scoping report, reference code 09/00070/Pre-App, is available to view on request at Harborough District Council’s offices in Adam and Eve Street, Harborough.

A spokesman for Harborough District Council said: “The scoping process exists to enable developers to identify the main issues that need to be covered in an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

“Advice given by the LPA at this stage is without prejudice to their final decision on, or recommendation about, the development.

“If the developers decide to progress the project once the above stages have been completed, they will submit a planning application which will follow the normal procedure.”