Bottisham councillor John Trapp and I visited the Sunnica exhibition at the Mandeville Hall in Burwell yesterday, about the changes to Sunnica’s planning application for a solar farm spanning the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border.
These changes result from National Grid’s statement that it will not accept the original plan to extend the Burwell sub-station, which is where the electricity generated by the installation would enter the grid.
This extension was Sunnica’s original Option 1. Option 2 was an extension on the other side of the sub-station.
Sunnica have now come up with a new Option 3, which is now their preferred option and would mean three changes to the plans.
- Remove the extension to the Burwell sub-station as in Option 1.
- Transmit electricity between the sites at 400kV rather than 132kV.
- Install additional electrical infrastructure at three of the four sites in the application.
Sunnica are consulting on this change until 6 July. Details of the consultation are at https://sunnica.co.uk/ and responses should be made in writing by one of the following means:
- By email to info@sunnica.co.uk
- By post to: FAO Sunnica Energy Farm, Freepost SEC NEWGATE UK LOCAL
This is a limited consultation on this aspect of the application only, not on any other aspects of the application.