The proposed wind park is located off the Dorset and Hampshire coast and to the west of the Isle of Wight and covers an area of approximately 723 km2.  Over the past year, Eneco has been appraising the area and concluded that a project of between 900MW and 1200MW of capacity could be located in the northern part of the awarded area, a site which covers 76 square miles. This is enough power to supply between 615,000 and 820,000 homes and will offset approximately 1,186,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. There are likely to be between 180 and 250 turbines, the larger versions reaching 165m in height.
Over the next two years, Eneco will be working closely with interested parties including statutory consultees and undertaking site-specific surveys prior to bringing forward a development consent application for the offshore wind park. It is anticipated that, subject to obtaining the relevant consents, construction of the wind park will commence in 2016 and it is hoped that the wind park will be fully operational by 2019. The exact site where the cable will come ashore has not yet been finalised but the sites being considered include Chewton Bunny. The cable will then be trenched across Christchurch Borough
and into East Dorset where it will be joined to the National Grid at Mannington Sub Station.
A statement of Community Consultation has been published which sets out how the company will talk to local authorities, community groups and the general public. A series of exhibitions and other consultation events will be held in the coming months starting with West Moors on 18 and 19 November. Further details of the development including the proposed cable route can be found by logging onto the website at: http://www.navitusbaywindpark.co.uk/project.aspx

a.  Monday 14 November 2011 – Sunday 27 November 2011: 24hr roundabout circulatory A31 approaches are reduced to one lane each way, and width restriction of 3.65m.

b.  Monday 14 November 2011 – Tuesday 15 November 2011 – NIGHT TIME: A31 roundabout entry/exit points to Wimborne Road West (East) Local Road Closure *Diversion Route in place* Note: Tuesday 15th November 2011 is contingency only.

c.  Monday 21 November 2011 – Thursday 24 November 2011: NIGHT TIME A31 Canford Bottom to Ferndown Industrial Estate Roundabout *Diversion Route in place*

The East Dorset Policy & Resources Committee have agreed to recommend the adoption of a standardised waste and recycling service in our area.  Full Council will be voting on 28th November.  Around one third of Dorset's refuse is food waste and the proposal is that this would be collected every week in a container with a tamper-proof lid that will be kept outside. Recycling would be collected fortnightly.  Paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans would be put into a wheeled bin and glass bottles and jars would go in a recycling box.  After food waste and recycling is removed from household bins, there shouldn't be much rubbish left, so this would be picked up fortnightly in a wheeled bin.  An optional chargeable (£35 per annum) garden waste service using a wheeled bin, which is collected fortnightly, would also be available if you wanted to sign up for this service?  Before the new service is introduced a series of road shows will take place across the district offering you the opportunity to talk to recycling officers about how the service will affect you and see examples of the wheeled bins, kitchen caddies and recycling containers.  The new service is designed to be as flexible as we can make it so that it will be available to all.  The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) will ask residents a month or two before the service is introduced in their area to explain any circumstances that would make it difficult for the new service to be used at their property.  In exceptional cases, the DWP will work with households that don’t have space for wheeled bins and residents with mobility problems to find suitable alternative solutions. For example, this could mean having additional recycling boxes for recycling and plastic sacks for refuse.