About 20 people voiced their concerns at a protest last Friday at Leonards Hill.

Noise, flicker, human rights and location were the major concerns.

Leonards Hill resident of 22 years Leo Ryan said he feared for the 30 houses within 2.5km of the proposed site.

"People don't want them in their backyards. We will get noise and flicker," he said.

"There's plenty of open space miles from houses towards Clunes and Creswick.

"Why can't they be put there?

"To put them in front of houses is a complete disregard to the people living here."

Daylesford resident Christain Wild said the area would be rezoned as an industrial development.

He said there was no other location in the world where wind turbines would be allowed so close to houses.

Leonards Hill resident Mano Polendakis, who has three small children, agreed that wind turbines should be kept a certain distance away from houses.

"Electromagnetic field is not something good for the community," he said.

The group has contacted the Clarkes Hill Landscape Guardians who defeated the $60 million Clarkes Hill wind farm proposal in February 2005.

Protester Jan Perry said it was important to contact other groups in Victoria.

"We have done our research," she said.

HREA president Per Bernard said he knew people at Leonards Hill who were "scared, threatened and angry" about the proposal.

"We are trying to share with them what a wind turbine is," he said.

"We invite them to any dialogue so they can learn about the wind farm."

Worth $8 million, the proposed wind farm would compromise two wind turbines and be built on private farmland at Leonards Hill, 10km from Daylesford.

Hepburn Renewable Energy Association, the company behind the proposal, claims the four-megawatt windfarm will provide enough energy for 2500 homes and cut greenhouse emissions by 14,000 tonnes per year.

The company received a $975,000 State Government grant for the project in August.

Hepburn Shire Council director of infrastructure and development Rod Conway would not confirm the number of objections received.

The planning application is expected to be tabled at a Hepburn Shire Council meeting next month.