Understanding 'local' opposition to wind development in the UK: How big is a backyard?

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Undesired reinforcement of harmful ‘self-evident truths’ concerning the implementation of wind power (2012, background): “…inadequate as a sole explanation for such oppositiony whilst the weight of published evidence indicates that it is now safe to discredit the nimby hypothesis as a sole (or even primary) explanation for all the local opposition experienced in wind farm controversy’’ (Jones and Eiser, 2010, p. 3108).”
From laggard to leader: Explaining offshore wind developments in the UK (2014, background): “This is also purported to have been a strong motive for policy makers to support the move offshore (interviewee 10); also see (Jones and Eiser 2010).”
Does the presence of wind turbines have negative externalities for people in their surroundings? Evidence from well-being data (2017, methodology): “In general, no market prices exist for these negative externalities, so that they must be valued using alternative methods such as stated (Groothuis et al., 2008; Jones and Eiser, 2010; Meyerhoff et al., 2010) or revealed preference approaches (Gibbons, 2015; Heintzelman and Tuttle, 2012).”