The 4Villages group was set up by residents in Pulham St Mary, Pulham Market, Dickleburgh and Rushall, to campaign against a proposal, recently withdrawn, by SLP Energy to build seven turbines at Upper Vaunces Farm between the four villages.

Now another renewable energy firm, TCI Renewables has said it is looking at the same site with a view to putting forward a similar proposal.

TCI Renewables, which develops, builds and operates wind projects across the UK and North America, has three other wind turbine projects in the east of England at Peterborough, March and Tetney, in Lincolnshire.

The company's development manager Gavin Clark said: "We are at a very early stage of our appraisal and have not yet reached a legal agreement with the landowner, which is needed to allow us to start the detailed planning process.

"I hope we will be in a position very shortly to consult with the local community and can promise we would do so very fully and well in advance of any planning application. In the meantime, I would ask that local people bear with us."

Lucy Melrose, chairman of 4Villages, said: "We find it extraordinary, even in the current corporate stampede for profit from wind turbines, that another energy company is considering a site which has been proved to be completely inappropriate.

"SLP Energy withdrew its proposal for the development, citing the many problems involved in this particular location – a confirmation of what 4Villages has been saying for 18 months and will continue to state firmly and unequivocally for as long as it takes."

She said 4Villages believes the Upper Vaunces Farm site is unsuitable for wind turbines for environmental and health and safety reasons.

SLP Energy's plans for the site were dropped in September for "commercially sensitive" reasons, according to company spokesman Kerry Gauntt.

SLP had failed to gain planning permission to build a meteorological mast on the site to measure wind speed and direction prior to the submission of a full planning application.