Our first stage of community consultation has now closed. Our Stage One Consultation ran for six weeks, from Thursday 14 March 2024 to Friday 26 April 2024. 

The purpose of this consultation was to introduce Island Green Power, present our early proposals for Lime Down Solar Park, and give you the opportunity to provide your feedback. We would like to thank all those who have participated in our first round of community consultation, whether this has been through attending one of our events, contacting our communications channels, or providing feedback. 

We held a series of in-person and online exhibition events during the first stage of consultation, providing you the opportunity to find out more information about the proposals and provide feedback.

We are now reviewing all of the comments submitted to us during the consultation to shape a strong set of proposals that are sensitive to and respect concerns of local communities. Our focus is on providing accurate and honest information to build an understanding of how Lime Down Solar Park can generate low carbon energy and bring benefits while minimising adverse impacts on the local environment and surrounding communities. 

We will soon produce a Stage One Consultation Summary Report which will include a summary of the feedback submitted to this consultation along with an overview of how we’ve taken your views into account as we continue to develop our proposals. If you would like to be notified directly when the Consultation Summary Report is made available, or receive information about future engagement and the next stage of consultation we will carry out on our more detailed proposals for Lime Down Solar Park, please click here to register your details with us.

Further to developing more detailed proposals for the project, we will then carry out a second stage of consultation. This is a statutory stage of consultation and is intended to give you the opportunity to comment on our updated proposals and how they have evolved since this initial consultation. We expect to carry out this second stage of consultation in winter 2024. 

We will continue to engage with local councils, community groups and technical consultees, and will undertake further environmental assessments ahead of publishing our Preliminary Environmental Information Report, anticipated later this year ahead the second stage of consultation.