Current Progress:

• South Norfolk Council refused planning permission for the proposed Hempnall Wind Farm.  An application for a planning appeal has been lodged.

• A Planning Application has now been submitted to South Norfolk District Council.

• The planning application was accompanied by an environmental statement.  The non-technical summary of this can be downloaded from the 'downloads' section.

Scoping Request

Enertrag have submitted a scoping request for an Environmental Impact Assessment to construct a wind farm at Hempnall.

A Scoping Request is an opinion provided by the Council (County, District or Unitary) that indicates what impacts and issues an Environmental Impact Assessment of a proposed development should address.
 
The proposed wind farm on land to the NE of the village of Hempnall would comprise seven turbines each having a maximum output of 3MW. The proposed site layout is shown below. The turbines would generate electricity that would be fed into the national grid via underground cables. Vehicle access routes will be provided between the turbines for construction and maintenance, these will follow current tracks and field boundaries where possible.

Each turbine will be a maximum of 85m high to the hub and the rotors will be a maximum of 90m diameter. The diameter of the tower at the base will be approximately 4m. The final arrangement for the foundation will be confirmed once the turbine manufacture is determined. The land around the turbine will be flat as the foundation would be buried. Once construction is complete, the land can continue to be farmed right up to the turbine tower.

The planning application will describe the turbines in a generic form. The reason for this is that the technology is constantly moving forward and at the time of placing the contract for the turbines Enertrag would want to take advantage of the turbine that best suits the site.

A brochure containing a map and further information on the proposal is available for download at the top of this page and also here and a copy of the scoping request is also available here.