Walshaw Moor, north of Hebden Bridge - Wind Farm

CALDERDALE WIND FARM LIMITED
SECTION 47 and 48 OF THE PLANNING ACT 2008 
REGULATION 4, INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (APPLICATIONS: PRESCRIBED FORMS AND PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS 2009
CALDERDALE ENERGY PARK
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF A STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY CONSULTATION AND NOTICE PUBLISHING
A PROPOSED APPLICATION FOR A DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER FOR CALDERDALE ENERGY PARK

Notice is hereby given that CALDERDALE WIND FARM LIMITED (CWFL) (“the Applicant”) of C/O Enshore Subsea Limited Port Of Blyth, South Harbour, Blyth, Northumberland, ME24 3PB intends to make an application to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero for a Development Consent Order (DCO) under section 37 of  the Planning Act 2008 (“the Act”) to authorise the construction, operation and maintenance and decommissioning of an up to 34-turbine wind farm, an onsite substation and associated onsite ancillary infrastructure works and associated drainage and underground cabling to connect to a Point of Connection, with a generation capacity of over 100MW, located on Walshaw Moor, north of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire (“the Proposed Development”).

In accordance with Section 47 of the Act the Applicant has now published a Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC) for the Proposed Development. This notice sets out where and when the SoCC can be inspected. The SoCC sets out how the Applicant will consult with the local community about the Proposed Development.

Additionally, the Applicant has a duty to publicise the proposed application for the DCO under Section 48 of the Act in accordance with Regulation 4 of the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 (“the 2009 Regulations”). In accordance with those provisions, this notice also summarises the main proposals, explains where the consultation documents can be viewed and how consultation responses can be provided.

The Proposed Development 
The main site, where the Turbine Area will be located, covers approximately 2,227 hectares (ha) of land at Walshaw Moor, situated north of Hebden Bridge, in West Yorkshire. The Turbine Area lies within the administrative boundary of Calderdale Council. 

The Applicant is progressing a point of connection via the proposed Bradford West Cable Corridor. At this stage, an indicative grid connection route is proposed to facilitate connection of the Proposed Development to the existing Bradford West Substation. This potential route would traverse the administrative area of Calderdale Council before entering the administrative boundary of the City of Bradford Council.

The exact locations for site access, highway improvements, and associated access tracks to the Turbine Area have not yet been finalised. The proposed Eastern Access Route sits within the administrative boundaries of Calderdale Council and City of Bradford Council, while the proposed Western Access Route spans the administrative boundaries of Calderdale Council, City of Bradford Council, and Pendle Borough Council.

The Proposed Development will involve the installation, operation (and maintenance) and decommissioning of the following components:

Turbine Area
Up to 34 wind turbines, with associated foundations, turning heads, crane hardstandings and external transformer units. The gross electrical output capacity of the wind turbines will be over 100MW (approximately 240MW based on current technology); and

Associated infrastructure, which is anticipated to include onsite substation and infrastructure, internal access tracks and watercourse crossing infrastructure (e.g. bridge and culvert crossings), a meteorological mast, underground internal electrical cable arrays, borrow pits, temporary construction compounds, a temporary onsite concrete batching plant, drainage and landscaping, lighting, CCTV and fencing and enclosures.

Access Routes
Provision of the Western Access Route and Eastern Access Route, including external site access junctions and highway works to deliver access from the existing road network to the Turbine Area.

Bradford West Cable Corridor
Export cables to connect the onsite substation to the Bradford West Substation.

Environmental mitigation
Onsite environmental mitigation and enhancements are proposed and potential offsite ecological mitigation and compensation measures are also being considered, as is open access land and common land compensation.

It is anticipated that the proposed DCO will, among other things, authorise:
The construction, operation and maintenance and decommissioning of the Proposed Development including associated and ancillary development;

The compulsory acquisition of land rights in or over land and imposition of restrictions, powers to override, suspend or extinguish rights over land and the temporary use of land;

The application, modification and/or disapplication of legislation relevant to the Proposed Development including that relating to the compulsory acquisition of land; and Such ancillary, incidental and consequential provisions, licences, property rights, permits and consents as are necessary and/or convenient.

The Proposed Development is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) development for the purposes of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017. 

This means that the Proposed Development constitutes development for which an EIA is needed and the proposed application for a DCO will therefore be accompanied by an Environmental Statement.  The Applicant will be making a Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) available as part of the statutory consultation which will inform the consultation and the development of the Environmental Statement. 

Consultation 
Statutory consultation on the Proposed Development will take place from Wednesday 08 April until 11:59pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026.

Under section 47 of the Planning Act 2008, the Applicant has a duty to consult the local community on its proposals. The SoCC explains how the Applicant will undertake the consultation, where the consultation documents can be viewed, where public events will be held and explains how people can comment on the proposals and provide responses to the consultation.

This notice contains a summary of the consultation details. However, full details of the consultation can be found in the SoCC. 

Copies of the PEIR with a Non-Technical Summary, our SoCC and other consultation documents, plans and maps detailing our consultation process and showing the nature and location of the Proposed Development may be viewed and downloaded free of charge on the project website at www.calderdaleenergypark.co.uk/document-library/

These consultation documents will be available on the project website until at least the end of the statutory consultation period. 

Hard copies of the consultation newsletter, brochure, FAQs booklet, feedback form and Non-Technical Summary will be available at be no extra charge and can be requested to be sent via post or collected from the in-person consultation events. A hard copy of the PEIR will be available to view at the consultation events.

Copies of the PEIR contained on a USB stick can be provided on request free of charge. Requests for hard copies of the PEIR will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, to cover printing costs a reasonable copying charge may apply. The maximum cost for a full hard copy of the PEIR, including all appendices and figures, is £12,000 to be paid for by the recipient. The charge will be calculated based on cost per individual volume requested as follows: Volume 1 - Main Report, £1500; Volume 2 - Figures, £6000 and Volume Three - Appendices, £4500. If you would like to request a hard copy of any of the consultation documents or if you need other more accessible formats of the consultation materials, please contact the project team via the details at the bottom of this notice.

You can also view the consultation materials at the in-person consultation events where you can speak with the project team and share your views. Consultation events will be held at the following venues during the consultation period:

In person events 
Date - Friday 17 April 
Time - 2:00pm – 7:00pm 
Location -Denholme Community Centre, Main Road, Denholme, BD13 4BL

Date - Tuesday 21 April  
Time - 1:00pm – 7:00pm
Location Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St George’s Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY

Date - Saturday 09 May 
Time - 11:00am -3:00pm
Location - Trawden Forest Community Centre, Church Street, Trawden, BB8 8RU

Date - Tuesday 19 May
Time - 1:00pm-7:00pm
Location - Haworth Village Hall, Butt Lane, Haworth, Keighley, BD22 8QJ

Date - Thursday 21 May 
Time - 2:00pm -7:00pm
Location - Primet Community Centre, Primet Hill, Colne, BB8 9NF

Online events

Date - Thursday 14 May
Location - Online Webinar
Time - 6:30pm – 8:00pm 

How to respond to the consultation 
A consultation feedback questionnaire is available as part of the consultation materials, and online at https://www.calderdaleenergypark.co.uk/document-library/ A printed copy of the consultation feedback questionnaire can be collected from an in-person consultation event or requested by contacting the project team using the details below.

Responses to the consultation can be submitted in the following ways:

Completing the feedback form online at 
https://www.calderdaleenergypark.co.uk/have-your-say/ 

By returning a printed copy of the feedback form to us at Freepost 
CALDERDALE ENERGY PARK (no stamp required) 
                        
Emailing us at info@calderdaleenergypark.co.uk 
Writing to us at Freepost CALDERDALE ENERGY PARK (no stamp required)

Attending a consultation event and completing a printed feedback form which can be handed into the team in-person or sent to us via the freepost address above

Responses must be received by 11:59pm on 10 June 2026. 
Responses received after the deadline may not be considered. We cannot guarantee acceptance of consultation feedback submitted via other channels.

CWFL requests that responses state the grounds of representation, indicate who is making it, and provide an address to which any correspondence relating to the representation may be sent. 

CWFL may be required to make copies of consultation responses available to the Planning Inspectorate. All personal information received as part of the statutory consultation will be handled in accordance with our privacy policy which can be found at 
https://www.calderdaleenergypark.co.uk/privacy-policy/. 

If you have any questions about Proposed Development or consultation, please get in touch using the contact details below:

Email: info@calderdaleenergypark.co.uk

Phone: 01422 702 506