Workshops April 2010

To provide information about development objectives to stakeholders, and to ascertain their main concerns and issues, Forewind held a series of stakeholder workshops in April 2010 in Hull, Newcastle and London. These workshops provided us with an opportunity for us to engage and to start to build relationships with as many stakeholders as possible at an early stage in our development process. The workshops provided an important contribution to the Zone Appraisal Planning (ZAP) phase of the project and will inform the production of our stakeholder engagement plan. The information gathered has been used to identify stakeholder interests and concerns and support the identification of the first tranche of projects for development.

Other opportunities for stakeholder involvement will arise as our development activities progress.

"We were delighted that so many stakeholders could attend and contribute to these workshops. Forewind is committed to engaging openly and regularly with stakeholders and these initial workshops provided us with very useful information to help structure our development strategy. We will continue to engage with stakeholders as we identify our first tranche and seek to determine where our individual projects will be located. We will follow up on the issues expressed at our workshops, and in other consultations, before forming a view on where the first projects will be located within that tranche. I would like to thank all those that were able to attend the workshops and I look forward to us working together throughout the development process.” - Gareth Lewis, Head of Development

All the presentations and reports from the workshops can be downloaded here.