Record of Cheshire Gas Storage Progress Meeting - E.ON UK

Date:
14 th March 2012
Purpose of
meeting:
E.ON UK – Holford Gas Storage Project
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Record of Local Liaison Committee Meeting No 032
Time: 16:30 Location: Byley Village Hall
Date prepared:
7 th December 2012
LLC - matters
Attendees: Chairman: John Grayling (JG)
Deputy Chairman: John Beecroft, Byley Parish Council (JB)
Peter Wild, RAP (PW)
Rod Brookfield, Cheshire West & Chester County Council (RB)
Keith Sharp, Cheshire West & Chester County council Planning
officer
John Halstead, Cranage Parish Council (JIH)
Mike Boag-Munroe, Cranage Parish (MBM)
Amanda Scarratt Cheshire Community Action (AS)
Justin Humphrey, Storage Operations Manager, E.ON Gas Storage
(JIH) Notes
David Thompson, E.ON UK, Site Manager, (DRT)
Michael P Cooper, Project Manager, E.ON Gas Storage (MPC)
Apologies
Absent:
Deborah Whitworth-Hilton, E.ON Gas Storage SHE manager (DWH)
George Yarwood, Cranage Parish Council (GY)
Tony Jenkins Jones, Community Relations, E.ON UK TJJ
John Hardman, Lach Dennis PC
Jim Williams, Operations, Ineos Enterprises (JW)
Notes Action DUE
1.0 APOLOGIES & ADMINISTRATION
1.1
1.2
Apologies received as note above
Introductions – RB introduced Keith Sharpe, Cheshire West &
Chester County council Planning officer (visiting)
2.0 REVIEW OF ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING -
Nil to report
3.0 REVIEW OF COMPLAINTS LOG and CONSENTS
DRT advised –
• There have been no complaints raised with the site team
and none raised through RB but noted enquiries form
John Oakley regarding lighting issues (resolved in 24hrs
by site team) and noise from the plant Friday 9 th March
12 at 222.00hrs. Again site have addressed what was
E.ON Site
Manager
COB
13 May
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noted as an abnormal condition during operations
(resolved Monday 12 th March by site team with control
modifications made)
• JB advised he had received a number of telephoned
complaints (no specified times) from various residents
regarding noise from the plant note to the west around
Yate House lane area.
• E.ON noted their surprise and commented as follows
• JIH had advised at the last meeting that acoustic
cladding was to be fitted to one of the compressors in
the new year, this is now fitted with the final cladding to
be completed Mid next week. Following this unit
completion testing will be performed to determine
adequacy and the remaining compressors will then be
addressed
• E.ON advised that is important to advise of complaints
directly to the plant at the time to allow interrogation of
the system thus allowing address of any such issues
associated to the plant. It was also noted that other
projects are working closer to Yate House lane and that
eary advice would allow accurate identification of the
party responsible
4.0 PROGRESS UPDATE
4.1
DRT gave an update on current commissioning and site
activities as follows;
4.2 Gas Plant
4.3
Solution Mining and Wells
Solution mining completed
3 wells in commercial operation
3 further wells commissioned and in the de-brining on
gas stage.
2 remaining wells to go under acceptance testing and
completion expected by the end of the year. Programme
review is being considered to bring these last 2 forward
Plant outage work is underway.
Plant tuning continues
Noise assessment under the planning conditions is
planned after the outage work is complete. A
management proposal and specification for this
assessment is in the final stage of draft and will be
issued to the council in the next week or so for approval
Construction
Fencing planting and maintenance is on going
Land hand back process is in the final stage of
completion with contract close out planned in the next
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5.0 COMMUNITY FUND UPDATE
NOTES OF MEETING
AS tabled a spreadsheet of the community fund account
(attached) identifying £694.27 remaining in the fund.
2 further applications have been made
1 from Byley village hall for funding of a proposed extension
1 from Byley school for ICT equipment
Applications to be forwarded to DRT for inclusion in these notes
Cranage Village hall also requested consideration for funding for
new kitchen equipment.
JB requested that funding for Byley village hall project come
from “next years funds” as planning consent had been received
E.ON advised that funding had ceased based on construction
completion and commercial operation.
JG and the rest of the committee commende d and thanked
E.ON for the past funding and the standard of liaison /
management of the project to date. He also considered that
media coverage and publicity should be reviewed to cover the
above.
Further thanks where made to AS and Cheshire Community
Action for their management of the fund account.
5.1 Previous applications
Although not discussed at the meeting the following two previous
applications have been left on the minutes for discussion at the
next meeting.
1) Byley Village Hall had applied for £12,000 as part of a
required £50,000 quotation to build a Bar and Lounge extension.
The remaining funds are being sort from GDF and others and
the village hall themselves. The committee debated the
applications and believed that they could not take responsibility
for funding the structure but considered that should the quotation
be broken down they would look favourably towards fund part of
the supply items / elements.
The scheme is subject to planning consent
The members agreed to ring fence £6000 until March 2012
subject to the above condition being met.
JB requested a further £6000 to be ring fenced from next
years allocation subject to the funds being made available.
Conformation of the duration of funding is requested.
Application No 41
Byley primary school looking for funding to address a potential
security issue with the perimeter fence. (previously The total
work is £7188.96 they are looking for funds from both GDF &
E.ON of £2800 each. Discussion by members challenged the
need for funding and noted they believe this to be a council
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issue. It is understood that GDF have agreed funding to the
value of £2000.
The committee agreed to match the funding but still had
reservations with regards to the Dept of Education’s
responsibility for the subject.) RB advised that he had checked
the situation out and the school themselves are responsible for
such matters and not the education committee.
Post Meeting note - - DRT - - I do not recall voting further on this
issue
The members agreed to match funding to £2000 albeit this
is now retrospective.
6.0 Member discussion
JG requested that the community fund spread sheet be
presented in a format that identified the beneficiaries and the
funding values received by each
MBM questioned the project to advise of planned expansion in
the form of additional wells
MPC responded that presently there are no plans albeit it is
possible but would be based on the market and favourable tax
concessions to underground storage. He note E.ON already
have planning for White Hill on the east coast so presently no
Members raised the amenity area element of planning and the
suggested cycle route being reviewed by JB.
JB advised he was not having much success with farmers
donating land.
General discussion took place on the subject noting the
difficulties and legalities around safe maintenance,
responsibilities, insurance and ownership. Some members had
little hope of this scheme ever getting off the ground and this
was qualified by RB as a particularly difficult aim to achieve.
RB was requested to look in to the legalities and planning
condition as E.ON had not been part or signatories to the
original agreement.
PW raised the issue of the safety document drop in that
members of the public had not received the documents.
DRT agreed to address this directly with PW and to hand deliver
these documents.
JG suggested that the frequency and format of the LLC Meeting
should be further considered with a view of tailoring the meeting
more appropriate going forward. This was based on the closing
construction and commissioning phase leading to operation.
Members are to give the subject some consideration and to
formalise at the next meeting. This subject to be included in the
next meeting agenda
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AS for the
next
meeting
RB next
meeting
DRT
ASAP
All next
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7.0 Guest speaker - Deferred
8.0 NEXT MEETING
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Wednesday 20 th June 2012 Byley Village Hall at 16.00 hours
Distribution: Attendees + Absentees, Clerk to Allostock PC
Local Parish Councils to place on notice boards and School & Village Halls
Attachments: Community Fund Spread Sheet
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