Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

In the light of the potential for CPO powers to be included in our DCO application,
at which time there would not be a commercial agreement in place to achieve the
proposals above, we propose to proceed with drafting Heads of Terms for a
Section 106 agreement, as a means to guarantee the contribution to the fund.
Such an agreement would not be required in the event of a commercial
agreement with EDF.
To enable the GWFL contribution to be available to the fund from the beginning
of the development we intend to link payment to the projected five year combined
onshore and offshore construction period. GWFL would propose to contribute
annually to the AONB fund during the construction period, up to a limit agreed
with SCC and SCDC. The same contribution would be proposed through either
contractual or legal mechanism mentioned above.
We trust that the above discussion addresses the key points from our meeting in
relation to onshore visual and landscape matters. Although there may be some
final minor amendments to the landform proposed with this letter, in essence the
attached plan 25456/003/018B represents what GWFL intend to submit as the
landform proposals in the DCO application.
I would therefore be grateful if you could respond to this letter and also provide
any outstanding comments on the draft DCO issued recently. As noted in the
opening paragraph to this letter we would be very grateful for any further
comments from your council on or before Friday 9 September, to allow us to
progress our environmental assessments and progress land discussions with
EDF.
Yours sincerely
Colin McAllister
Galloper Wind Farm Onshore Consents Manager
Enclosed:
Landform Plan 25456/003/018B
Landscape Mitigation Strategy Plan 2890/D
Landform Cross-section 2890/11B
GGEXT2381 draft Minutes of Meeting_25.08.2011
cc John Pitchford, Sue Hooton, Phil Watson (all SCC), Nick Collinson (AONB Unit)
Bob Chamberlain (SCDC)