Longfield Solar Farm

CONSULTATION QUESTIONNAIRE

1 June to 13 July 2021

Longfield Solar Energy Farm Ltd is consulting on its proposals for Longfield Solar Farm, a new solar energy farm co-located with battery storage on farmland north east of Chelmsford and north of the A12 between Boreham and Hatfield Peverel. As the energy generating capacity of the proposed Longfield Solar Farm would be more than 50MW, the project is classified as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP).

This consultation is your opportunity to express your views on our proposals before we submit an application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

We currently expect to submit our application later in 2021. We want as many people as possible to share their views on our proposals as part of this consultation.

How to respond to this consultation

This questionnaire is designed to help you give us your feedback on the proposals. You can respond to the consultation by:

Completing this questionnaire online here.

Completing this questionnaire and returning it to Longfield Solar Farm consultation,

FREEPOST reference RTRB-LUUJ-AGBY, SEC Newgate UK, Sky Light City Tower, 50 Basinghall Street, London, EC2V 5DE.

Completing this questionnaire and sending it by email to info@longfieldsolarfarm.co.uk.

Writing to us directly using the email address or Freepost address set out above.

Responses must be received by Longfield Solar Energy Farm Ltd between 1 June 2021 and 11:59pm on 13 July 2021. Following this statutory consultation, we will consider all of the views we receive on time and finalise our DCO application. This will include a Consultation Report setting out how we have considered responses to the consultation.

All consultation questionnaires should be returned by 23:59 on 13 July 2021 either online or by post to: Longfield Solar Farm consultation, FREEPOST reference RTRB-LUUJ-AGBY, SEC Newgate UK, Sky Light City Tower, 50 Basinghall Street, London, EC2V 5DE. You can also email your questionnaire to [email protected].

You can find more information on the proposals at www.longfieldsolarfarm.co.uk.

Any comments received will be analysed by Longfield Solar Energy Farm Ltd and any of its appointed agents. Copies may be made available in due course to the Secretary of State, the Planning Inspectorate and other relevant statutory authorities so that feedback can be considered as part of the process. We will request that any personal details are not placed on public record and will be held securely by Longfield Solar Energy Farm Ltd and its agents in accordance with the data protection law and will be used solely in connection with the consultation process and subsequent application for the Order and, except as noted above, will not be passed to third parties. Responses will also form the basis of a Consultation Report that will be one of the factors taken into consideration by the Secretary of State when deciding whether the Application can be accepted for examination. Therefore, in providing any comment, it should be borne in mind that the substance of it may also be communicated to others as part of the Consultation Report.