Aldeburgh Town Council want your views to inform their consultation response – please write to the Moot Hall or email townclerk@aldeburghtowncouncil.co.uk or you can respond yourself by 18^th December.

These projects are in addition to what is proposed with SPR EA1N & EA2 and Sizewell C.

Sea Link is to connect Suffolk to Kent (because the overhead power lines cannot take all the energy that will be generated with SZB, SZC and SPR.)

Euro Link is to connect Suffolk with the EU to import/export power (although there are existing Interconnector lines these were not future proofed). 

ATC supports the development of renewable energy but maintains that these projects should use brown field sites only for all the onshore infrastructure needed.  Cable channels (2 per project) are motorway width while in construction, and require haul roads, compounds and laydown areas for soil etc. and separate huge, Converter station buildings for each project require 5 hectares each.  SeaLink and EuroLink both want to connect to the proposed new substation at Friston (consented by Sec of State but currently subject to Judicial Review) which would have to become even larger.

Of particular concern to all residents and visitors to Aldeburgh is that the emerging preferred landfall site is between The Scallop, Aldeburgh and Thorpeness.