Supplementary Environmental Information
After careful consideration, Partnerships for Renewables (PfR) has decided to revise the plans for the Boddington Reservoir site and reduce the overall height of the proposed wind turbine from 122m to 105m.
Since PfR submitted a planning application in February this year, Daventry District Council (DDC) has conducted a comprehensive Public Consultation exercise, writing to many stakeholders including: local residents; parish councils; and statutory consultees with expertise in areas such as Ecology, Flood Risk Management, Aviation etc.
Following the completion of DDC’s public consultation PfR was pleased to learn that there were no objections or concerns raised by the vast majority of the statutory organisations, whose role is to assess whether any development would negatively impact upon the local environment or community with regard to their area of expertise. Among the organisations to have confirmed that they have no objection to the proposed turbine are: Defence Estates (the MOD); The Civil Aviation Authority; Coventry Airport; Natural England; the RSPB; the Highways Agency; National Grid; the Environment Agency; British Telecom; Ofcom; T-Mobile; Orange; Thames Water; E-on Central Networks and others.
Whilst the number of organisations confirming that they had no objection to the proposal was encouraging, we were nevertheless sensitive to the concerns raised by both English Heritage and DDC’s Conservation Officer. The concerns raised by each party focussed on the impact that PfR’s proposal would have on the Grade I listed church of St John in Upper Boddington.
After consideration of the concerns raised by English Heritage and DDC’s Conservation Officer, PfR decided that in order to ensure that the proposed turbine was appropriate for the local area, it would be prudent to seek to mitigate the impact on the church of St John. After conducting additional investigative work it became clear that a reduction in the overall height of the turbine would be the best way to achieve this.
The revised turbine height of 105m (a reduction in 17m from the original 122m turbine proposed in our planning application) should prevent any potential adverse impact upon the views and setting of the Church of St John, whilst also reducing wider landscape and visual effects associated with the development.
Given the substantive change to the proposal originally put forward, PfR has decided to submit a formal Supplementary Environmental Information (SEI) document to DDC.
The documents submitted to DDC are available to download and read below.
As with our original planning application of February this year, DDC is once again conducting a public consultation exercise in order to seek the views of local people toward the revised proposal from PfR.
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