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3/4/2020

Energy Projects: Scottish Power EA1N and EA2 windfarm projects
The Planning Hearings were postponed-and we are keeping a watching brief.
For information about latest developments: please see the websites of the various action groups – these are set out below:
SEAS: https://www.suffolkenergyactionsolutions.co.uk
SASES: http://sases.org.uk
Anglian Energy Planning Alliance: https://anglianenergyplanningalliance.com

Sizewell C consultation stage 4

29/9/2019

Aldeburgh Town Council has submitted an excellent response to the Stage 4 consultation. This can be found here. (8Mb)

ENERGY PROJECTS

23/9/2019

We continue to respond and encourage you to respond to the various consultations in respect of the major infrastructure projects, Sizewell C and the SPR East Anglia windfarms and the new interconnectors. We remain deeply concerned at their possible negative impact on Aldeburgh and its coast and in particular worry that, if all are allowed to go ahead, the traffic consequences for Aldeburgh will be seriously detrimental. You may be interested to see the views of the ANGLIAN ENERGY PLANNING ALLIANCE and Suffolk Energy Action Solutions (SEAS) umbrella groups which are concerned that we cannot cope with so may uncoordinated projects at the same time. We feel that government should take a proactive role in ensuring that energy projects such as these are carried out in a planned and coordinated way.

The

SIZEWELL C CONSULTATION

12/3/2019

Our draft response to the Sizewell C Consultation can be found HERE.

A template for use by our members can be found below in both Word and PDF format.
PLEASE RESPOND BY MARCH 29TH.
Feel free to use our template as you wish. Things you might like to consider in your response include:
1. EDF’s Consultation Process - its adequacy and lack of provision of an ‘environment impact survey'
2. Environment - risk of destruction of AONB, SSSIs, RSPB Minsmere & catastrophic consequences for Wildlife
3. Road infrastructure - inadequate to support huge volume of HGVs
4. Local services - likely impact on housing, schools, health, policing and emergency services
5. Tourism & local economy - what damage will be caused by 12 years of construction work
6. Workers’ Campus - to be located on greenfield site and away from towns & facilities
7. Cumulative impact of 3 major energy projects at the same time

TEMPLATE (WORD)

TEMPLATE (PDF)

STOP PRESS
When responding to EDF and SPR it would be a great idea to attach any photos you have of the roundabout and other areas likely to be heavily impacted by the construction traffic. More photos of how impossible it will be for over 110 HGVs a day to trurn at the roundabout the better.

Do also please send any photos you have to info@aldeburghsociety.org.uk

Scottish power renewables consultation

12/3/2019

The Society has drafted its response to the SPR consultation phase 4. This can be found via the button right. This may still change.

Please remember to get your responses in by March 26th. Note you need to respond twice.
To ScottishPower Renewables East Anglia ONE North and to ScottishPower Renewables East Anglia TWO.
email to
eastangliaonenorth@scottishpower.com and
eastangliatwo@scottishpower.com

To help you we have also produced a template for our members to use. This can be found below.

Feel free to use our template as you wish. Things you might like to consider in your response include:
1. SPRS’s Consultation Process '
2. Environment - risk of destruction of AONB
3. Road infrastructure - traffic including via Aldeburgh roundabout
4. Local services - likely impact on housing, schools, health, policing and emergency services
5. Tourism & local economy - what damage will be caused by years of construction work
6. Cumulative impact of 3 major energy projects at the same time

Template in WORD format HERE
And in PDF format HERE.

SOCIETY RESPONSE

BARCLAYS CLOSURE

27/2/2019

The Aldeburgh Society has written to Barclays and Therese Coffey, MP to object to the closure of the branch in Aldeburgh High Street noting that this move will adversely affect the vulnerable and in particular the elderly, many of whom cannot get to Leiston and many of whom are not on the internet.
We also pointed out that the cash dispenser in Barclays is the only one in the centre of the Town which is open 24 hours, that the one inside the Post Office can only be used when the Post Office is open and that a busy holiday town like Aldeburgh surely needs a 24 hours cash facility in its High Street where for example all the shops are open on a Sunday.

Barclays are not prepared to reconsider the decision to close but are amenable to discussing the placing of the ATM in another Aldeburgh High Street retail outlet.
We have relayed this to the Town Council and the Aldeburgh Business Association.

We wrote a second time to send Barclays the petition signed by so many Aldeburgh residents and collected by Baggotts. Our letter is here

Barclays have reiterated that they will not reconsider and have explained that they are running “Tea and Tech” sessions at the Branch and at the Fairfield Centre.
Barclays’ letter is here:

They have sent us details of the sessions which are as follows:

       21st Feb 2019 at the Fairfield centre
       5th March 2019 at the Aldeburgh Branch
       21ST March 2019 at the Fairfield centre
       11th April at the Fairfield Centre

All events start from 10:00am.

Sizewell C

28/1/2019

EDF is going ahead with plans to build and operate a new nuclear power station at Sizewell- to be know as Sizewell C..

They are engaged in consultations in advance of making an application to the government for permission to go ahead.

The project is huge and will have a dramatic effect on Aldeburgh and on the AONB generally. The Stage 3 Consultation is online and the deadline for responses is 29th March.

Please give us your views or better still respond directly: by completing a questionnaire at HERE or emailing info@sizewellc.co.uk. Copy your responses to us if you can.

WINDFARM. DISAPPOINTING CONCLUSIONS FROM CONSULTATION.

21/12/2018

The Society is very disappointed with the Scottish Power Renewables response to the latest round of consultations. They still favour the Friston site and have not addressed the Society's real concerns over traffic through Aldeburgh. See the conclusions and the Society's response to them by clicking on the buttons below.

Scottish Power Conclusions From Consultation 3.5

Society Response to Scottish Power

barclays bank closure

18/12/2018

.We are receiving many representations on this closure which will affect so many of our members, particularly the elderly.

Many of us cannot get to Leiston. Many of us are not able or are unwilling to use online banking because of the risk of fraud. Also if people are expected to go to the Post Office this is not big enough to handle the potential increased traffic.

The cash dispenser in Barclays is the only one in the centre of the Town which is open 24 hours. There is one inside the Post Office but this can only be used when the Post Office is open. A busy holiday town like Aldeburgh surely needs a 24 hours cash facility in its High Street where for example all the shops are open on a Sunday.

We have taken the matter up with the Regional Director for Barclays and you can see a copy of our letter below. The potential closure will remove an important amenity from our Town.

We have been in contact with our MP and are liaising with Aldeburgh Town Council.

Letter to Barclays

Nick Hulme Presentation 23 November

18/12/2018

We had an excellent presentation from Nick Hulme the Chief Executive of East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust on the future of the NHS and the merger of Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals. You can see his slide presentation by clicking on the button below.

Nick Hulme Presentation

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