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Solar farm update Dec 2023

Solar farm update Nov 2023

Solar farm update Oct 2023

Solar farm update Sept 2023

YSF – Update Yelvertoft Parish Council – July 2023

Residents Meeting – Yelvertoft Solar Farm – Information Boards – 24 June 2023

Solar farm update June 2023

Update Yelvertoft Solar Farm – Yelvertoft Parish Council – 15 May 2023

Monthly reports from the Environmental Agency:

Extract: “I’ve been keeping an eye on things remotely from my end in Yelvertoft but wanted to reach out and check how things are in the village. I see the flood alert has been pulled and hopefully that outlook continues going forward. How have things looked on the ground in the village? There is the National Incident Reporting System on 0800 80 70 60 which can be used to report flooding or anything that is likely to cause flooding like a blockage in a culvert.

I also wanted to update on the work we’ve completed so far. This last week we had the first draft of the economic analysis back from the consultants. I must stress that this is a first draft of high-level work and some assumptions, that will be checking later on, have been made.

The next steps on our end are review and approve the economic work by our consultants. Immediately after that we will then make some minor updates to the model; changes which aren’t expected to significantly alter the economic results. Then we will go into the Strategic Outline Case (SoC) where we take a long list of flood defences options assess their benefits before coming up with a sort list of the best.

We’re also talking with the LLFA about a meeting. Do evenings or weekends work better for the parish council and are there days which we should avoid? I suspect that next week will be busy with incident response and the like but the week after that looks more likely.”

November 2023

Last Friday, we had the final stage of the model review for Yelvertoft to confirm our initial expectations: the existing model is suitable for an initial assessment, but amendments will need to be made to progress further beyond that. Most of this would be desktop-based work, but other parts could include additional survey work on culverts throughout the village. Any amendments that will be made are not expected to impact the flood extent significantly but are required to ensure everything is up to the required standard.

September 2023 – second update report

The next step for us is to start completing an economic assessment. ARUP, our consultant, is currently undertaking this assessment and is expecting to submit it to us for review around 3 weeks. Once we have the economic evaluation alongside the model, we’ll have more clarity on our path.

Since the last update, the consultants have worked primarily on modelling the watercourse. The consultants have made amendments to the Hydrology, which represents how much water flows through the system, and the Hydraulics, including the physical representation of the village and the watercourse. So far, the assessment has shown only modest changes in the level of risk and indicates that, broadly, our modelling has not been too far off. We still need to combine Hydraulics and Hydrology and see how they interact, but we expect we won’t see significant changes. As much of the rest of the assessments we are undertaking rely on the modelling, this is currently our priority piece of work.

September 2023

Apologies I’ve gone quiet this month. Things have been moving unexpectedly on Yelvertoft and I wanted to get everything in order to give a proper update when we knew what our plan was.

As you may be aware the EA process for new flood risk schemes involves producing a number of reports. This generally starts with an Initial Assessment before moving through the three business cases, Strategic, Outline and finally a Full Business case. As we move through the stages we gather more data, do more investigations and narrow our options down until an approved Full Business case which has a single option which we then, assuming we get approval construct.

After reviewing the information we already hold and the options we, along with the community have already we’re not going to produce an initial assessment report. Instead, we’re going to focus on getting the data and flood model to a place where we’re ready to move on to the next stage. We took this decision due to the amount of information we already have on Yelvertoft from previous studies and we were concerned that if we produced a full initial assessment report we would end up a couple of months down the line with a report that re-iterates things everything involved already knew.

With this approach we are further along the process and closer to delivering however it does mean that it will be a longer time until a written report is produced and able to be shared. Whereas before I was expecting to have something to share in the summer the autumn is now looking more likely. I can still share our progress through monthly updates and at any meetings.

In terms of meetings and how those take place. My personal preference is in person. It my be my personal bias but I find those can be more productive and getting people into Yelvertoft can help sharpen focus on the issues. That being said I recognise this can make it harder to get a date that everyone who is needed to attend. Therefore what I would suggest is that the first meeting is virtual, once we have everyone we need at that virtual meeting we spend 10 minuets at the end finding a date and time that everyone can attend an in person meeting in Yelvertoft.

May 2023

Part of Elkington Road will be closed between 10-12^th January to allow Anglian Water to repair a hydrant.

Elk Road closure

Kier are requiring to carry out traffic calming works just to the north of Crick sports ground and also post and rail repairs near High Street, Yelvertoft.

To undertake both sets of works will require road closures, the first for the traffic calming is expected to commence on the 27^th November until the 12^th December 2023.  The closure and diversion route can be viewed here https://one.network/?tm=135999465 and if you require more information please contact Marc Nightingale on 01604 529700.

The second set of works, relating to repairs to the post and rail of a structure are due to take place on the 24^th January 2024 for up to three days at off peak times.  Unfortunately being the opposite end of the road it is not possible to complete both at the same time.  The closure and diversion can be viewed here https://one.network/?tm=135999915  if you require more information about these works please contact Sean Ward on 01604 529700.