Representation by Nicola Jane Hanley
- Date submitted
- 5 November 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I live off Cowfold Road and only 400m from the proposed route for the underground connecting cable corridor from the new substation at Oakendene to the Bolney National Grid substation. My family has already put up with 6 years of construction noise and disruption during the construction of the Rampion 1 substation located 400m immediately south of our house. This is a populated rural area, and therefore during the construction of the Rampion 1 substation the construction hours were reduced for the benefit of residents. In that project, no construction activity or deliveries were permitted on site in the ‘shoulder hours’ from 7am to 8am and from 6pm to 7pm Monday to Friday. I therefore expect the Construction Hours in this project to be likewise reduced for the both the construction of the underground connecting cable from Oakendene to the National Grid substation, and for the works to expand the National Grid substation itself to accommodate the Rampion 2 connection . I am particularly concerned for the well being of residents of the Eastridge Care Home on Wineham Lane, a specialist dementia care home. For the benefit of all residents in this area, I would also ask that all construction vehicles be fitted with ‘white noise’ reversing beepers, that no construction lighting nor generators be permitted to be used outside of the Construction Hours and especially not in the shoulder hours, and that the use of traffic lights on Cowfold Road and Wineham Lane be limited to use in Construction Hours only.