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Representation by Hempstead Parish Council (Hempstead Parish Council)

Date submitted
24 October 2022
Submitted by
Parish councils
  • Disruption to agriculture and damage to land structure. * Environmental impact. * Lack of proper consideration by the Applicant of an alternative, more appropriate, grid connection point. * Need for the ExA to require the attendance of National Grid at the Hearings, to be interrogated on their actions by the ExA, in public, during the examination process. * Recognition, in relation to the work of the OTNR, that SEP/DEP is not an “in-flight” project. * The onshore in-combination, cumulative impacts of SEP/DEP’s landfall, substation and cable corridor construction, when considered alongside the already consented Hornsea Three, Vanguard and Boreas projects. * That the SEP/DEP application should include – as a necessary cumulative impact – the proposed East Anglia Green project, upon the consenting of which it depends. * The cumulative impact of the probable future construction of large battery storage facilities to improve the economic viability of the project, as has happened with the Hornsea Three project.