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Eye Wind Power Ltd has re-submitted a modified planning application of two 3.0MW wind turbines.
We have included a downloadable copy of the Non Technical Summary, click the link below.
This is document is a brief outline of the project. Also there is an independent noise and health effect report carried out by leading experts from all over the world, all these documents are freely available to download.
This great project will provide a very useful income as detailed below to the town of Eye and surrounding villages. To help us with this exciting project and show your support we have included a couple of pre-written letters for you to download, print off, add your name and address, sign, then pop into an envelope and send to the planning officer at Mid Suffolk District Council in Needham Market. If you can send in a letter we'd greatly appreciate your support.
Benefits
The proposed three wind turbine development to the south of Eye Airfield, adjacent to the A140, with two turbines in the Parish of Yaxley and one in the Parish of Eye, this project has the potential to provide all the clean, green energy needs for 3,800homes for the next 25 years.
Wind Power Renewables has committed to the establishment of a community fund proportional to the size of the project. Local people will guide the use of the fund and the company will support in administration and delivery. The fund will receive an annual top-up from the project of typically £1000 per installed Megawatt of capacity. For the Eye project this fund is expected to receive over £6,000 per annum, this will equate to well in excess of £150,000 over 25 years. A lasting legacy after the turbines have been removed.
Help support your county's challenge to create the greenest county, see what you can do to help at http://www.greensuffolk.org/.
On climate change; Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the Met Office said, "If emissions continue at the current rate the global average temperatures are likely to rise by 4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century or even substantially earlier. The science tells us that this will have severe and widespread impacts in all parts of the world, so we need to take action now to reduce emissions to avoid water and food shortages in the future."
"Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, RSPB and WWF, are calling on the UK Government to put in place funding and incentives to encourage investment in much more wind power." Quote from Friends of the Earth
The planning application can be viewed on line by clicking on this link and typing in the application code of 3736/11
http://planningpages.midsuffolk.gov.uk/online-applications/Information Files:
Eye Support Letter with CommentsFilesize: 102 Kb
Eye Support Letter BlankFilesize: 95 Kb
Eye Non Technical SummaryFilesize: 2,126 Kb
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