Consultation

Next Steps and Registering an Interest

SSE Renewables and RWE npower renewables has welcomed confirmation by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) on 19 December 2011 that it has accepted the application for Galloper Wind Farm (GWF). "Acceptance" of the application means that a decision-making process, approximately 9 months in length, now commences before the relevant Secretary of State is asked to make a decision on whether the scheme should be approved.

We have now reached the PRE-EXAMINATION stage.

The defined registration period, where members of the public can register their interest, and if they wish to, make formal representations to the IPC about our application has now closed. The registration period lasted from 23 January 2012 to 24 February 2012.

All relevant representations are now available on the IPC website. There will then be 21 days to comment on these by submitting online or writing to the IPC. Comments will then be published back onto the IPC website.

To help answer any questions about our final application during the registration period, and the changes we made following our consultation in June/July 2011, we hosted a series of information panels about our final submitted proposals at Sizewell Beach Cafe on Friday 3 February 2012 (4.00pm - 8.00pm) and Saturday 4 February 2012 (10.00am - 2.00pm). The information panels are now available to download.

The events provided an opportunity to speak to members of the project team and to clarify or put any questions forward in response to the application documents. Please note that once a project is accepted, as GWF now is, "material" changes are not permitted to the scheme proposals.

Previous Statutory Consultation Period

Our consultation period closed on 14 July 2011 and we would like to thank you for providing input and feedback on our proposals. The documents used during this period are available below for your reference.

• Have your say document (including feedback questionnaire/comment form), what you need to know.
• Public Exhibition (June 2011), the display boards from our June exhibition.
• Section 48 Public Notice, advising of consultation.
• Statement of Community Consultation, how we proposed to consult.
• Community Consultation Zone (CCZ) 

Public Exhibition

A public exhibition took place in Leiston on 17 and 18 June 2011. A copy of our exhibition boards are available for download.

Preliminary Environmental Report (PER)

We published our Preliminary Environmental Report. If you would like to see a copy of this document, which has now been superseded, please get in touch with the Community Liaison Manager using the contact details on the right. 

Prior Consultation Activity

Site Appraisal Study

We completed our site appraisal study which can be downloaded for viewing. 

National Grid Consultation

National Grid held an exhibition at Sizewell Sports and Social Club on Friday 18 March. You can download a copy of the exhibition boards which were on display. The results of this consultation exercise have been published and you can download the report here.

Non-Statutory Consultation
November 2010 - January 2011

A community consultation exercise on three potential substation sites for GWF (called Options 1, 2 and 5) was carried out, including publication on the GWF website, a meeting with the Sizewell Residents Association and a public exhibition at Leiston in November 2010. The results of this consultation exercise have been summarised and you can also download the full report.

We held a public exhibition on Friday 26 November (Leiston Community Centre) and Saturday 27 November (Leiston Leisure Centre). You can download a copy of the exhibition boards which were on display. In addition to the photo viewpoints shown on our exhibition boards, you can also view additional viewpoints of each of the substation options.

Scoping study
June - August 2010

Our formal 'scoping' documentation can be found below. This documentation was sent to statutory consultees prior to our public consultation commencing. (These links will take you to the Infrastructure Planning Commission website). 

• Scoping request
• Scoping opinion