A Community Focus
We would like the proposals for Light Valley Solar to be developed in collaboration with local communities and stakeholders. This will include an extensive and iterative consultation and feedback process.
Island Green Power provides a community benefits package with all the renewable energy schemes it promotes, with the potential for both on-site and off-site initiatives.
We believe the communities closest to the proposed development should benefit and are best placed to recommend what they believe a ‘community benefit’ should be.
In support of this, we will:
Conduct an extensive and iterative consultation and feedback process - we are committed to working with the local community to identify and define community benefits, inviting suggestions through consultation.
Explore potential on-site and off-site initiative such as opportunities to create permissive paths.
Consider the possibility of supporting initiatives to make improvements to existing community amenities, such as sports facilities, children’s playground, and village halls.
Consider enhancing existing footpaths with educational walk-boards, wildflower meadow planting and seating or bird watching areas as well as exploring opportunities to introduce new permissive paths.