Section 1: About you Your details are important to us in helping to understand who has responded to our consultation, including any organisations and members of the local community. Please see our data privacy notice at the bottom of this Feedback Form for details on how we will use your data.
Section 2: Views on solar development and the EcoPower Suffolk Solar proposals Your responses to this section will help us understand more about your views on solar development.
2c. Please tell us the reasons for your responses and any other comments you have:
Section 3: Project design We have produced an illustrative layout plan showing our current proposals, including potential areas for solar development and landscape and ecological mitigation.
To view the site layout plan, please refer to pages 4–11 of the Consultation Information Booklet.
Please consider the topics below in your responses for the remaining questions in this section:
Location and layout of the solar panels and associated infrastructure
Construction methods and phasing
Proposed Order Limits (the area required for the development)
Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation measures
Landscape and visual impacts
Traffic, access, and construction logistics
Any other considerations
Area 1 and 2
3a. Do you have any comments on the Proposed Development and associated infrastructure for Area 1 and 2?
Area 3 and 5
3b. Do you have any comments on the Proposed Development and associated infrastructure for Area 3 and 5?
Area 4
3c. Do you have any comments on the Proposed Development and associated infrastructure for Area 4?
Section 4: Local environment EcoPower Suffolk is classified as an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) development, which means we are required to assess the likely environmental impacts of the Proposed Development. We would like your feedback on the preliminary findings of our environmental assessments, the likely effects of the Proposed Development, and the measures proposed to avoid, reduce or manage any significant impacts.
Information on this process and our findings to date can be found on pages 17–18 of the Consultation Information Booklet. More detailed information from our environmental surveys and assessments is set out in the main report of the Preliminary Environmental Information (PEI), which is summarised in the Non-Technical Summary of the PEI.
4b. What are your views on the draft management plans, which are available on our website? Please provide specific comments on each plan below:
Draft Outline Construction Environmental Management Plan (oCEMP);
Draft Outline Construction Traffic Management Plan (oCTMP);
Draft Outline Operational Environmental Management Plan (oOEMP);
Draft Outline Decommissioning Environmental Management Plan (oDEMP);
Draft Outline Battery Safety Management Plan (oBSMP);
Draft Outline Landscape and Ecological Management Plan (oLEMP); and
Draft Outline Public Rights of Way and Access Management Plan (oPRoWAMP).
Section 5: Community benefits Econergy, the applicant for EcoPower Suffolk Solar, is committed to delivering a range of community benefits throughout the lifetime of the Proposed Development. These benefits are intended to support local priorities and could include community and environmental initiatives in the parishes closest to the site. More information can be found on page 21 of the Consultation Information Booklet.
5. Do you have any comments on our approach to community benefit, including any suggestions for how the funding could be used?
Section 6: Additional feedback
6. Is there anything else you would like to share or suggest to help shape the project?
Section 7: Views on the consultation
7e. Do you have any further comments on the delivery of the consultation?
What happens next
After the consultation closes, we will carefully review all feedback received and conduct an overall analysis on the main themes of the consultation. Respondents’ views will help shape the final design of the Proposed Development as we assess how our plans can be updated in response to feedback, where possible. We expect to submit our DCO application to PINS, which will include a Consultation Report explaining how feedback has been considered.
Data privacy notice
Econergy is committed to protecting your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use it in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal data, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
How will Econergy use the information you submit?
We will use your responses for a number of purposes, including:
in the analysis of the feedback to the consultation
to produce a Consultation Report, based on our analysis of responses (individuals will not be identified in the Report)
to write to you with updates about the results of the consultation and other developments
to keep up-to-date records of our communications with individuals and organisations.
Any personal information you include in this form will be handled and used by (or made available to) the following recipients to record, analyse and report on the feedback we receive:
Econergy and its consultants working on EcoPower Suffolk, for the purposes of work relating to EcoPower Suffolk only
the Planning Inspectorate (which will consider our application for development consent – any details published as part of this process will be anonymised)
the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (who will make the decision on our application)
our legal advisers.
What rights do I have over my personal data?
Under the terms of the UK GDPR, you have certain rights over how your personal data is retained and used by Econergy. For more information, see our full data privacy statement: www.econergytech.com/privacy-policy/
Get in touch
If you have any questions or comments, or would like to be kept up to date on the Proposed Development, please sign up for updates on our website or contact our Community Relations Team using the details below.