Our Heritage 2040: Community Update March 2024
Welcome to the latest Our Heritage 2040 Newsletter.
January marked a landmark in the progress of Sizewell C when the Development Consent Order (DCO) was officially triggered. The two-reactor nuclear power station will generate 3.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity - enough to provide 7% of the UK's needs. Sizewell C could power the equivalent of about six million homes and generate electricity for 60 years.
Our Heritage 2040: Community Update December 2020
Thank you once again to all those who contributed to the discussions that took place last week. 120 people helped shape this phase of the Our Heritage project. We welcomed over 50 contributors across the five virtual roundtables, which covered a number of over-arching themes and dived deeper into specific issues relating to Heritage, Economy, Energy and Climate. A number participated in more than one session.
Our Heritage 2040: Hearts of Darkness, Rings of Saturn
In late October 2020, Jericho Chambers hosted five roundtable discussions about Suffolk’s future over five days. Fifty individuals participated from a broader interested community of over 100 - including national politicians, local business leaders, energy and tourism experts and local residents and civil society organisations.
Suffolk’s “energy coast”– a meaningful economic legacy?
Our Heritage 2040 Article Twelve: Suffolk does not need this unpresidented scale of industrialisation.
A 21st Century Crystal Palace Across East Anglia
Our Heritage 2040 Article Eleven: Let a thousand flowers - plus fruit and veg - bloom along a new path to production.
A Coming Cultural Suffolk High Tide
Our Heritage 2040 Article Ten: Culture provides one route for revitalisation and levelling-up.
The Future is Slow
Our Heritage 2040 Article Nine: Slow food, tourism, agriculture, fishing. But maybe faster buses and the odd train.
East Anglia and the hydrogen vanguard
Our Heritage 2040 Article Eight: Long the poor relation when it comes to energy alternatives, Hydrogen’s case is gaining momentum.
East Anglia - leading the way for Clean Growth
Our Heritage 2040 Article Seven: What we can expect to have happened to power generation in UK by 2040. What it will take to accelerate towards a Net Zero Carbon future.
Suffolk: The All Energy Coast?
Our Heritage 2040 Article Six: The all-energy coast is a compelling idea but not at any cost.
Right here, right now
Our Heritage 2040 Article Five: Eden Project East? The flora and fauna – and what we could achieve.
The Interim report, explores the key challenges in the evolving relationship between business and democracy. Download a copy of the report here.