Charming, really, but a bit of a blot on the landscape.

Abandoned homes are more than a blot on the landscape.

Han looked ahead, and saw a huge pit, a dark blot on the landscape.

His idea could help meet the common criticism that turbines are both noisy and a blot on the landscape.

Blot on the landscape: Village under seige from an illegal festival.

Whereas electricity pylons are seen as blots on the landscape for some reason.

"They will be a devastating blot on the landscape.

With these blots on the landscape removed, a cohesive parkland plan could be drawn up.

The polytunnels have been a major issue in the county, as some people see them as a "blot on the landscape".

Some Americans oppose windmills as a blot on the landscape, but Japanese seem less concerned.

Is it a blot on the landscape?

Or are they protesting just as hard about existing power stations at the blot on the landscape they cause.

When the mine closed the enormous workings were left as a blot on the landscape of the Troodos.

It's surrounded by idyllic countryside, yes, but if anything the town is an unsightly blot on the landscape.

The Prince has described onshore wind farms as a "horrendous blot on the landscape".

The colony's artists regarded amateur painters as intrusive blots on the landscape.

Our reporter Stephen Chittenden has spent the week looking at what some would call "blots on the landscape".

Having watched this building going up my opinion is it is a blot on the landscape, just a box with no redeeming features.

The ugliest blot on the landscape is a gigantic theater that will be used for biblical spectaculars.

The only blot on the landscape was that Yvonne had stayed out most of the night on Sunday, and it wasn't the first time.

Instead of letting yet another premises become a blot on the landscape it has been transformed into an upmarket shop of worth.

The 2010 survey also showed that 52% disagreed with the statement that wind farms are "ugly and a blot on the landscape".

But yesterday's blot on the landscape is today's tourist curiosity, as Simon Garrett reports

I passed through Montréal on Monday and you can't miss the blot on the landscape that is their 1976 stadium.

Depending on who is talking, the results would be either a hideous blot on the landscape or a significant step toward clean power and energy independence.

Charming, really, but a bit of a blot on the landscape.

Abandoned homes are more than a blot on the landscape.

His idea could help meet the common criticism that turbines are both noisy and a blot on the landscape.

Some Americans oppose windmills as a blot on the landscape, but Japanese seem less concerned.

Is it a blot on the landscape?

When the mine closed the enormous workings were left as a blot on the landscape of the Troodos.

Having watched this building going up my opinion is it is a blot on the landscape, just a box with no redeeming features.

Instead of letting yet another premises become a blot on the landscape it has been transformed into an upmarket shop of worth.

The 2010 survey also showed that 52% disagreed with the statement that wind farms are "ugly and a blot on the landscape".

and they'd be a blot on the landscape to put it mildly,

"To some, wind turbines are a blot on the landscape whereas to others they are elegant workhorses, but this reaction is highly subjective.

"It was an opportunity to make a statement about infrastructure that could simply not be a blot on the landscape but contribute to it," Mr. Festa said.

Is there some form of conspiracy going on here - so that the majority are led to believe renewable energy is overly-expensive, a blot on the landscape and unreliable?

With any excavating job you can avoid creating a blot on the landscape for months after by slicing the turf off in strips, so that it can later be relaid.

A RUSTY old gasometer which fed-up local residents want demolished because 'it's a blot on the landscape' has been compared to some of Italy's most beautiful buildings.

If the issue was not taken head on, he said, and the movement towards unification became precipitate or unorganised, it would not merely be a blot on the landscape, it would 'rock the continent.'

Unfortunately, although the visually attractive chimney has been removed, the visually offensive derelict sixties-style block buildings, several storeys in height, are still standing, ungraciously draped with green netting, as a blot on the landscape.

The remains of the village were destroyed in 1965 as part of a government operation to clear the country of abandoned villages, which were regarded by the Israel Land Administration as "a blot on the landscape".

Although the villages or "ghost towns" and the former gold mines are a blot on the landscape, they are a big attraction and there have even been concerts hosted at the site of the former gold mine.

If there is a blot on the landscape, it comes in the form of Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations and City face a real challenge to comply with FFP before the deadline arrives in 2015.

But in a little twerp of a town like Blue Deer, Mont. - population 3,872, altitude 4,500 feet, hunkered down between the Crazy Mountains and the Absaroka Range of the Rockies - every felony is a blot on the landscape.

If cars are not piled up as high in scrap yards as they used to be and are less of a blot on the landscape, that has something to do with the considerable extent to which parts of cars can be reused and recycled.

Vince appeared twice on TV as a pottery expert on the Channel 4 program, Time Team: in series 7, episode 10 (Sutton, Hereford) and series 10, episode 11 (Not a Blot on the Landscape, Castle Howard, Yorkshire).

Your kind of people are a blot on the landscape you travel.

As for being a blot on the landscape.

The turbines can be a blot on the landscape.

But critics say the 339 turbines, some reaching 670ft above sea level, would be a blot on the landscape.

But this is a blot on the landscape.

This means that every caravan has its own view out but avoids the caravans themselves being a blot on the landscape.

Barren wastelands, once home to industrial processing plants, are a blot on the landscape.

When the question of formal signs came up, several commission members said signs seemed unnecessary and would be a blot on the landscape.

Park authorities said fly-tipping was a blot on the landscape of Dartmoor they were determined to stamp out.

After all, in his day Pythagoras was thought to be a blot on the landscape for upsetting the status quo.

But campaigners say the Bullingdon site will be a blot on the landscape and fear it could send house prices tumbling.

A great power and its allies decide that a certain regime is a blot on the landscape, so it is blotted out.

"They are a blot on the landscape and they act as a magnet for vandalism and anti-social behaviour."

and they'd be a blot on the landscape to put it mildly,

This puts undue emphasis on renewable and low-carbon energy – yet wind farms are a blot on the landscape.

Dame Vivienne Westwood agrees with the heir to the throne that they are a blot on the landscape.

Opponent Meg Prater said she was concerned about noise from the turbine and said it would be a blot on the landscape.

Mr Hamilton said: "I think Cardiff Bay was a blot on the landscape in the past.

Villagers in Pucklechurch and Westerleigh opposed the original plans, claiming the plant would be a blot on the landscape and pose a health risk.

Mr Shears added: "This building has been a blot on the landscape for two years and so we can't wait to show what it now looks like.

Instead, as the series between England and the West Indies has confirmed, it is a blot on the landscape, like building a casino in a conservation area.

Sasha says the upgraded line is a blot on the landscape and, in return for having to live with it, her family should get some help getting mains electricity.

Some people think they are an excellent way to generate green electricity whereas others reckon they are a blot on the landscape and a danger to birds.

"It was an opportunity to make a statement about infrastructure that could simply not be a blot on the landscape but contribute to it," Mr. Festa said.

A RUSTY old gasometer which fed-up local residents want demolished because 'it's a blot on the landscape' has been compared to some of Italy's most beautiful buildings.