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The plan highlights that the Council is supportive of the renewable energy sector and is looking to exploit opportunities which create skilled jobs in the Harwich area. The plan states that: “the Council will seek to maximise opportunities to encourage businesses in the renewable sector to invest in the district and make best use of its coastal location and proximity to the wind farm developments taking place off the Tendring coast. In particular, the Council recognises the potential role Harwich could play in the growth of offshore wind farm development”.
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The Tendring Economic Strategy (Tendring District Council 2013) states that by 2018 Harwich should “provide a fulcrum for the East of England’s evolving Offshore Energy offer and to have “built upon its position as the busiest offshore energy port in the country”.
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By 2023 “Harwich will be Europe’s fastest growing location for servicing the Offshore Energy sector having successfully encouraged longer term investment in manufacturing and assembly. These investments will anchor higher value careers in Harwich, providing visible opportunities for Tendring’s young people to commence long and rewarding careers”.
66. 67.
The economic strategy emphasises the importance of developing the offshore wind industry in Harwich and argues it is possibly Tendring’s biggest opportunity.
Overall there is considerable strategy and policy support for the location and development of offshore wind activities and support infrastructure in East Anglia. Local authorities in East Anglia recognise the huge potential economic benefits which could arise from the development of the industry in their respective areas.
28.7 Existing Environment 28.7.1 Socio-economics
28.7.1.1 Study Area 68.
In order to determine the socio-economic profile associated with the onshore cable route, a drive time catchment from the town of Woodbridge (the nearest town to the cable route) has been established and examines the key indicators and measures of socio-economic activity. Woodbridge is assumed as the centre point of drive time catchments as the location is the mid-point of the cable corridor from the landfall point at Bawdsey to the Bramford grid point.
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In terms of the offshore construction aspects, equivalent drive time catchments of the following ports have been established:
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
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