Heckington Fen, North Kesteven
Our biggest wind park to date - with 22 turbines powering almost 40,000 local homes. A significant milestone in the fight against climate change.
Anyone who lives in the fenland areas of Lincolnshire will know they have their fair share of the UK's wind resource and we hope to harness some of this with our proposals for an area of land at Heckington Fen.
Ecotricity has plans to build up to 22 wind turbines on agricultural land to the north of the A17 near Heckington in Lincolnshire.
The scheme was granted consent by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (now Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)) in February 2013.
Variation Request Representations (November 2018 - uploaded May, July and October 2019)
The following representations have been received by BEIS from Local Action Group 'Heck Off' and North Kesteven District Council:
Heck Off - DBEIS Heck Fen Wind Farm Variation Application 2018 (PDF, 842 KB)
Heck Off radar mitigation response - 8 December 2018 (PDF, 615 KB)
Heck Off's submission on behalf of our local communities (PDF, 881 KB)
Appendix 1: letter dated 4 July 2018 (PDF 184, KB)
Appendix 2: submission sent to DBEIS on 27 July 2017 (PDF, 801 KB)
Appendix 3: Heck Off expert review on Radar Mitigation (PDF, 801 KB)
Appendix 4: Dr Yelland's June 2016 WTN NIA appraisal (PDF, 2.9 MB)
Accompanying Appendix B for June 2016 NIA appraisal (PDF, 853 KB)
Accompanying Appendix A (PDF, 2.6 MB)
North Kesteven District Council Response 1 (PDF, 356KB)
North Kesteven District Council Response 2 (PDF, 2MB)
North Kesteven District Council Response 3 (PDF, 323KB)
Richard Buxton Solicitors Response (PDF, 881KB)
Variation of Consent Condition 4 and 8 (2) – September 2018
Following consultation with the Department of Business, Energy and Infrastructure Strategy (BEIS), Ecotricity has submitted additional information to progress a variation of consent application for the Heckington Fen Wind Park. This seeks to amend the wording of Condition 4 and 8 (2) to extend the date before which the development shall be commenced from 5 to 10 years. The application can be viewed below:
VoC Condition 4 Response Letter dated March 2018 (PDF, 297 kB)
Variation of Consent Environmental Statement (PDF, 508 kB)
Landscape & Visual Statement (PDF, 8.78 MB)
Cultural Heritage Assessment Update (PDF, 3.70 MB)
Ecology (PDF, 3.25 MB)
Ornithology (PDF, 726 kB)
Acoustics (PDF, 691 kB)
Transport and Access Assessment Update (PDF, 472 kB)
Hydrology (PDF, 477 kB)
Miscellaneous Assessment (PDF, 536 kB)
A hard copy of the application can be inspected at:
North Kesteven District Council, Kesteven Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7EF
Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 5:00pm; Friday 9:00am - 4:30pm
Hard copies (at a cost of £125) and CD copies (at no cost) of the 2018 variation application documents and the Variation of Consent (2018) Environmental Statement, may be obtained from The Planning and Development Team, Ecotricity, Lion House, Rowcroft, Stroud, GL5 3BY or by emailing home@ecotricity.co.uk.
Any person wishing to make representations about the application should do so in writing to:
Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
c/o Keith Welford, Energy Infrastructure Planning, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET
Or by email to beiseip@beis.gov.uk
All representations should be received no later than 31 October 2018. Unless otherwise indicated, copies of any representations (save for personal information) received will be regarded as public documents and will be copied to the Applicant and the relevant local council. Any representations received by the Secretary of State in response to the consultation will be handled in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. Privacy information can be found on the BEIS infrastructure portal here.
Not part of the application, but for the avoidance of doubt:
Radar Position Statement dated October 2018 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
Clarification Note dated September 2018 (PDF, 121 kB)
Application Letter dated February 2018 (PDF, 598 kB)
Cover Letter to the ES dated May 2018 (PDF, 276 kB)
Variation Request Representations (December 2018)
The following representations have been received by BEIS:
Heckington Fen Variation Request Representations Batches 1-3 (PDF, 4 MB)
Noise response (May 2017)
Ecotricity has also submitted additional information following a request from the BEIS to respond to a number of representations made by local residents and Parish Councils. This includes a Noise Report written by Dr Yelland to which Ecotricity have provided a further report.
Below are links to the representations received from BEIS as well as the two Noise Reports and letter from Ecotricity.
Final Ecotricity response (PDF, 131.8 kB)
Additional information responses (February 2017)
Local resident responses (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Heck Off responses (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Parish council responses (PDF, 1.1 MB)
North Kesteven District Council response (PDF, 209.7 kB)
Lincolnshire County Council response (PDF, 226 MB)
Local MP response (PDF, 207.5 kB)
Variation of consent additional information
Response to BEIS, October 2016 (PDF, 244 kB)
Appendices (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Variation of consent responses to DECC (BEIS) letter (19 January 2016)
DECC letter of 19 January 2016 (PDF, 179.6 kB)
Sample of resident responses (PDF, 5.25 MB)
Parish council responses (PDF, 3.9 MB)
Statutory responses (PDF, 2.8 MB)
North Kesteven District Council responses (PDF, 437.8 kB)
MP letters (PDF, 158.6 kB)
Wind turbine noise impact assessment appraisal (Yelland Report) (PDF, 2.8 MB)
Variation of consent responses (June 2015)
Statutory and public responses (PDF, 4.1 MB)
Variation of consent application (February 2015)
In February 2015 we decided to apply for a variation of the original consent, largely based on altering some sections of the onsite access track, relocating the onsite substation and increasing the rotor diameter of the turbines to maximise the renewable energy generation of the site.
It is important to state that the overall tip height of the turbines (125m), the maximum number of turbines (22) and the locations of the turbines have not changed with the variation of consent application.
Further details of the variation of consent are provided below in the form of the variation application letter, the Non Technical Summary, the variation Environmental Statement (ES) and associated plans. The original section 36 consent, and the accompanying Section 90 Direction, is also provided, together with the original Environmental Statement documentation.
Variation application letter (PDF, 154.7 kB)
Variation non-technical summary (PDF, 96.4 kB)
Chapters 1 to 4 and 6 to 11 (ZIP, 42.8 MB)
Chapter 5: Landscape & Visual Impact (ZIP, 43.3 MB)
Original application (July-December 2011)
Original non-technical summary (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Original planning statement (PDF, 3.9 MB)
Further environmental information: landscape clarification (PDF, 16.2 MB)
Original environmental statement (exc. LVIA) (ZIP, 60.7 MB)
Original LVIA (ZIP, 59.4 MB)
Original LVIA appendices (ZIP, 35.4 MB)
Original consent (February 2013)