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News and updates archive
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Berick Bank Wind Farm – another update!
SSE has successfully secured a 20-year contract for 1.4GW of low carbon offshore wind power from Phase B of its Berwick Bank Wind Farm project in the UK’s seventh Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round, announced today.
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Berwick Bank Wind farm update
Onshore Planning Application – 275kV Cable Works Berwick Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind project located in the Firth of Forth with a grid connection at Branxton, near Innerwick in East Lothian. As part of our proposals to develop…
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Community Transport Workshop
One of our four community ambitions is that a public or community transport service should be re-introduced to link the villages with Cockburnspath and Dunbar. We are holding a workshop on this theme on the evening of Thursday 22nd January…
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Beth’s Blog – a partnership approach to construction impacts
What a whirl these last few months have been! Since I last wrote a blog post I have been developing and taking forward a set of five key priorities (external link — opens in a new tab) for the Energy…
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Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) community benefit funding
Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm (external link — opens in a new tab) is now fully operational, and its owners, EDF power solutions UK and ESB, have committed to providing community benefit funding of £270,000 per annum, rising with inflation,…
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Newlands Hill Wind Energy Hub update
Belltown Power have let us know that their application for 15 wind turbines and a battery storage facility is now proceeding to Public Local Inquiry (“PLI”) after East Lothian Council raised an objection to the Proposed Development in September 2024.…
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Free heat surveys!
Following on from the Energy Efficiency workshop in October, alongside Sustaining Dunbar and Insulate Innerwick’s work, you now have the opportunity over the coming weeks to have your home surveyed with a thermal imaging camera for free by a trained…
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Active travel and walking survey
Let us know your views by 4th December! Fill in the online form here (external link — opens in a new tab) Following last night’s Active Travel workshop, we are sharing an opportunity for residents and visitors to share your…
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Taking forward our community priorities
Our series of workshops looking at next steps for the 4 community priorities (external link — opens in a new tab) drawn from the East Lammermuir Local Place Plan (external link — opens in a new tab), are well underway! The first workshop was held…
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Lorries in Our Lanes
Monday 10th November 6:30 – 8pm Innerwick Old School House Join us on Monday 10th November for updates on the current and upcoming construction of energy projects, focused on their impacts on traffic and travel. There will be opportunity to…