Suffolk County Council document review on Lionlink
SCC letter to National Grid post Dunwich Fire
The Council remains deeply concerned regarding the continued preference by the Applicant for
LionLink to make landfall at a site in Walberswick, due to area being highly constrained with respect
to access and the potential for considerable impacts of construction on residents to facilitate the long
cable route from the sea to landfall then onto to the converter station site
Given the significant damage which has occurred to this important landscape and potential
interrelationships with the scheme, the Council considers it essential that the Applicant reflects the
wildfire and its implications in their environmental assessments and in further development of their
proposals. This includes reviewing baseline assessments already drafted in relation to the LionLink
proposals against the ecological impacts of the wildfire and to consider the implications of these
impacts on the scheme, including the assessment and mitigation of the construction impacts on the
local ecology
