Eurolink: How/where to share your views with Eurolink and our elected representatives
Written input will be critical for demonstrating opposition to the choice of Walberswick as the landfall for the Eurolink cable and other views you may have about the overall project. It is essential that letters and emails are individualised; input that is copied directly or petition style letters will have much less impact. Over the next few weeks, we will post on this website some of the key issues that you may wish to highlight. Your input can be submitted until 18 December.
1. You can write in any time from now, but you may find it more helpful to write after attending one of the presentations. The nearest is at Stella Peskett Hall, Mights Rd, Southwold, IP18 6BE on 30th November, 10AM-4PM. If you cannot attend, information is also available on the Eurolink website (nationalgrid.com/eurolink - note this will open in a new window). Your response should be sent to:
- Email response to: info@eurolink.nationalgrid.com
OR
- Post response to: NGV EuroLink Consultation, Holborn Gate, Floor 8, 26 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AN
Either way, please include your name, address and email contact information with your submission.
2. It would also be helpful if you wrote to East Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council to ask them to oppose landfall of the cable at Walberswick. Please note that both Cllr Smith and Cllr Beavan have expressed their opposition (see Eurolink update posting 15 Nov). Therefore, you may wish to thank them for their support and ask them to encourage their respective councils to object. You can send your emails to:
Cllr Richard Smith, Suffolk County Council: richard.smith@suffolk.gov.uk
Cllr David Beavan, East Suffolk District Council: David.Beavan@eastsuffolk.gov.uk
Again, please include your name, address and email contact information with your submission.
3. You may wish to write to our MP, Therese Coffey, who is also Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Affairs, at her parliamentary address: therese.coffey.mp@parliament.uk. You should not only ask her to object to landfall at Walberswick, but to help the Suffolk Coast overall by insisting that the national level government look at the cumulative impact that these separate and uncoordinated energy infrastructure projects are having on our protected and delicate coast. Each project — Sizewell C, Scottish Power EA1 and EA2 substation at Friston, Nautilus, Sealink, Eurolink and several more still in development — is compounding the environmental, transport, social and economic impacts on our communities. Moreover, putting so many projects here in an uncoordinated fashion is making it harder to deliver national energy projects because there are insufficient appropriate locations and the infrastructure and services to support construction are missing. The fact that all these projects are proposing to violate protected environmental sites including AONB, SSSI, SRA and RSPB reserves, and that Eurolink has to consider such inappropriate locations, far from the source of energy demand, such as Southwold, Walberswick, Dunwich and Thorpeness/Aldeburgh, is ample evidence of this.
The MP’s office requests that you indicate whether you are a constituent and include your name, address and email contact. Please do not send anything to the MP as a cc:
It would help the Parish Council if you would send a copy of your submission/letters on Eurolink to WPC at walberswickclerk@gmail.com. Although there is no requirement to do so, this would be useful in helping WPC monitor the issues raised and gauge the scale of input from residents.
There is now a dedicated webpage on the Parish Council webapages that holds all the updates on Eurolink. It can be viewed by following the link to: http://walberswick.onesuffolk.net/walberswick-parish-council/eurolink/