Partnerships for renewables (PFR) has today issued the following statement..................
"Following further detailed assessment through the Environmental Impact Assessment process and extensive consultation with the local community PfR has decided to amend the Thorington Barn wind energy development to a single wind turbine on the part of the site within the Pannington Farm land. Both the technical assessment PfR has undertaken and the local feedback has been invaluable in helping us hone our proposal and we are confident that this single turbine project is now the optimal design for the locality.
The project will no longer include the previously proposed turbine on Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) owned land east of Belstead and south of Pinewood. There are no plans to re-consider this in the future and the agreement with IBC will fall away at the end of the year. PfR is extremely grateful to IBC for giving us the opportunity to consider their land for wind energy development and for their support in developing the project.
PfR will be making a planning application for one single wind turbine of up to 130m maximum tip height in the same location as previously outlined along with a control building, tracks and hardstandings on the Pannington Farm land, with access from the Street at the existing field entrance as previously proposed. The grid connection point is now expected to be at the Tattingstone sub-station just over two miles south of the site.
We expect to be making our planning application for the single turbine towards the end of November. The project will now be renamed as the Pannington Farm Wind Turbine. We will continue to engage with the local community and further public exhibitions will be held immediately following the submission of the planning application. These exhibitions will show details of the planning application, updated photomontages and information on the community benefit fund. More information on these events will be publicised nearer the time."