[gmac]

Especially in a geographically pretty small country like the UK, NIMBY (or indeed anyone else's back yard) may be a perfectly valid argument. These things are big and somewhat noisy.

[zaroth]

You also can’t live or work anywhere that would be hit by the strobing shadow cast by the blades.

[jdeibele]

Somebody posted a link to the YouTube video that showed a Dutch turbine exploding. In the description it said pieces went 500 meters. So there probably needs to be a physical safety zone of 1km or more, not that turbines seem to explode very often.

Also noise has been mentioned by some people as a consideration. https://www.ramblingsdc.net/wtnoise.html has an interesting page on it (and a 2012 vibe).