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Updated April 2012: See News, Mission
Statement & Friends
Welcome to the official Website
for The Severn Lake™ project - the development of an Energy
Causeway which creates a 145,000 hecatre lake in the Bristol Channel
This site features the very latest news on this exciting project,
plus background details about the plans. The proposed application
is to build a causeway from Lavernock Point on the Welsh shoreline
to a new location north of Brean Down on the English side.
The target we have set ourselves
to complete this project is 2020.
To create a concrete causeway to contain:
- Four km of power houses, being 74 pods. Each pod contains
three turbines and four sluice gates. These pods manufactured
anywhere under licence can be floated into position, being approximately
50m x 50m x 15m. This tri-wall tri-pod system could produce
on ebb and flow between 15 / 18% of the UK energy needs.
- Two wave farms on the western side of the causeway
- Autonomous power and water services
- Continuous free-flow shipping channels
- Four marinas
- One lifeboat station
- 12 The Woodham Islands on the Somerset side, upstream of the
causeway
It should be noted that although the causeway infrastructure
can take it, no roadway and no public railway will be contained
within the planning application.
The causeway will only land on both shores for landscaped services
access. It has been made clear in consultations that the South
West does not want a road from Wales to land at Brean Down and
act as a 'rat run' to the M5. Should the Vale of Glamorgan Council
and / or Sedgemoor District Council wish to utilise the causeway
they must create their own planning application at arms length.
All construction work on the causeway will be from the sea.
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