Milton Keynes Wind Farm Supplementary Environmental Information

Contents

Supplementary Environmental Information (SEI)

SEI overview

Table 1 Energy and Emissions

Table 2 Response to Council letter with reference to appendices and ES

Appendices

Appendix A Highway Boundary Map

Appendix B Transport, Access Route and Grid Connection

Appendix C Access Road and Grid Connection Route Ecological Study

Appendix D Grid Connection and Access Route Appraisal

Appendix E Geotechnical Site Investigation

Appendix F Responses to A8-A13 of Council Letter and

onsite storage locations

Appendix G Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Flood Risk Assessment

No Objection Letter

Appendix H Electromagnetic Interference and Aviation

Appendix I Bat Survey and No Objection Letter

Appendix J Listed Building Assessment

Appendix K Cumulative Impact Assessment

Appendix L Additional Ecology Information

Appendix M Updated Energy and Emissions reports

Appendix N Noise Data

Appendix O Emberton Parish Council Response

Appendix P Erratum

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Supplementary Environmental Information

The Supplementary Environmental Information (SEI) has been prepared in support of a

planning application and Environmental Statement (ES) submitted to Milton Keynes
Council (the Council ) in August 2006 for the Milton Keynes Wind Farm (the Proposal ),
by MK Windfarm Ltd (as the Applicant) and Your Energy Ltd (as the Developer).

The Proposal is for the construction and operation of a wind farm comprising of (i) seven
(7) wind turbines, (ii) a substation, (iii) anemometry mast, (iv) access tracks including
access off the public highway, (v) underground electrical cabling (all for a period of
twenty-five years) and (vi) a temporary construction compound on land comprising part
of Petsoe Manor Farm, which is currently and will continue to be used as arable farm
land.

Following review by White Young Green Consultants, the Council issued a response to
our ES on the 28th of April 2007. The letter summarised further information they would
like to see to help enable them to determine the application. The Developer has
tabulated this letter (shown in Table 2) and responded to each point accordingly, either
in the table or with reference to the relevant Appendix of this SEI.

In addition to responding to the Council, the developer has also provided additional
documents that were provided to various consultees:

Additional Ecology Information (Appendix L) and Access Road and Grid

Connection Ecological Study (Appendix C), provided to the Council Countryside
officer.

Bat Report provided to Natural England (Appendix I)

Flood Risk Assessment provided to the Environment Agency (Appendix G)

Supplemental swept path analysis drawings (Appendix B) and Access Road and
Grid Connection Ecological Study (Appendix C) provided to the Council
Highways Officer

Listed Building Assessment provided to English Heritage (Appendix J).

Also an Erratum in the original ES is provided in Appendix P and an updated energy

yield report in Appendix M.

Many of the objection points raised by objection letters to the wind farm are the same as
those raised by Emberton Parish Council, therefore it was decided to respond to the
Emberton Parish Council document to capture all of the points raised by objectors to the
scheme. This response is given in Appendix O.

Ultimately the benefit of the wind farm needs to be weighed against the impacts and the
table below outlines the benefit Milton Keynes Wind Farm will bring depending on the
wind turbine type installed.

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Turbine MWh per Capacity Capacity

Type Year (MW) Factor CO2 SO2 NO2 Houses
(WCS) (Tonnes per annum)
V90 3MW
(Mode 2) 41000 21 22.3 35260 410 123 8723
Enercon
E82 36975 14 30.1 31798 369 110 7867
V80 2MW 31867 14 26 27405 318 95 6780
V82
1.65MW 31875 11.55 31.4 27412 318 95 6781

Table 1: Energy and Emissions-Annual energy production, for different turbine types,
predicted from Milton Keynes Wind Farm calculated by the Wind Consultancy Service
and shown in Appendix M of the SEI. Also shown in the table is the range of emissions
savings (Calculations in Appendix M of the SEI), and number of households that use the
equivalent amount of electricity produced by the wind farm.

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