Notice is hereby given that Ecotricity (Next Generation) Ltd of Unicorn House, 7 Russell Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3AX (“the Applicant”) has submitted to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (the appropriate authority), an application pursuant to section 36C of the Electricity Act 1989 to vary both the consent (Ref: 12.04.09.04/31C) granted on 8 February 2013 under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 (the Section 36 Consent) and the direction under section 90(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Section 90 Direction) to install and operate an electricity generating station with a capacity of over 50MW, known as the Heckington Fen Wind Park on land at Six Hundred Farm, Six Hundred Drove, East Heckington, Lincolnshire.

The application is to vary the Section 36 Consent and Section 90 Direction as follows:

• Amend the onsite access track along two sections within the development site and provide an allowance for micro-siting;

• Relocate and increase the footprint of the onsite substation and provide an underground cabling corridor from the turbines to the onsite substation;

• Relocate the temporary construction compound to an area of existing hardstanding;

• Provide temporary auxiliary crane pad areas;

• Amend the turbine rotor diameter from 90m to a maximum rotor diameter of up to 103m and allow a 10 metre radius micro-siting allowance around each turbine location where onsite constraints allow;

• Amend the wording of Condition 1 to substitute the words “figure 3.1 and figure 3.4” for the words “drawing number 4038_A0085_03”;

• Amend the wording of Condition 5 to read:

‘No construction of a wind turbine shall commence unless and until a Radar Mitigation Scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, having consulted with the Ministry of Defence and NATS (En Route) plc, to address the impact of the wind farm upon air safety’; and

• Amend the wording of Condition 7 to remove the words “shown on Figure 4.1” at the end of the second sentence.

The Applicant has received notice under Regulation 4(6) of the Variation Regulations that the appropriate authority considers that the application is suitable for publication.

The application is accompanied by a `Variation of Consent Environmental Statement` which considers the environmental effects of the changes proposed to the Heckington Fen Wind Park in comparison to those described in the July 2011 Environmental Statement submitted with the original application for consent made on 20 July 2011, plus the December 2011 Further Environmental Information: Landscape Clarification (the original application documents).

Further information on the variation application and a copy of the application documents, together with the original application documents, can be found on the application website www.ecotricity.co.uk/heckington-fen. A copy of the variation application documents and the Variation of Consent Environmental Statement, together with the original application documents, may be inspected at the following addresses within normal opening hours:

North Kesteven District Council, Kesteven Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7EF

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm; Friday 9.00am - 4.30pm

Hard copies (at a cost of £125) and CD copies (at no cost) of the variation application documents and the Variation of Consent Environmental Statement, plus the original application documents, may be obtained from Jamie Baldwin of Ecotricity, Lion House, Rowcroft, Stroud, GL5 3BY or by emailing heckington-fen@ecotricity.co.uk.

Any person wishing to make objections to or other representations about the application should do so in writing to the appropriate authority:

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

c/o Keith Welford

National Infrastructure Consents

DECC

3 Whitehall Place

London

SW1A 2AW

Or by email to deccnic@decc.gsi.gov.uk

All representations should be received no later than 30 April 2015. Unless otherwise indicated, copies of any objections or representations received will be regarded as public documents and will be copied to the Applicant and the relevant local council.

Where the appropriate authority require the Applicant to provide further information pursuant to Regulation 13 of the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (as amended) (‘the EIA Regulations’), or additional information is made available to the appropriate authority, the Applicant shall publish a further notice (in accordance with procedures set out in Regulations 14 and 14A of the EIA Regulations) setting out where and when representations on such further information or additional information, as is appropriate, can be sent.

The appropriate authority may cause a public inquiry to be held into a variation application if it considers it appropriate to do so, having considered any representations received and all other material considerations.

On an application for a section 36 consent to be varied, the appropriate authority may make such variations to the consent as appear to the authority to be appropriate (including making no variations), having regard (in particular) to the Applicant’s reasons for seeking the variation; the variations proposed and any objections made to the proposed variations; the views of consultees; and the outcome of any public inquiry, if held.