Construction work at a new wind farm on Teesside is set to take a big step forward with the forthcoming arrival of the first turbine components.

Part of The Banks Group, Banks Renewables, started work on the Lambs Hill site in March this year and since then has been undertaking a number of site preparations, construction and infrastructure development activities.

Components for each of the wind farm’s four turbines have started to arrive this week, with erection work set to get under way on October 4.

They will be shipped into the region through Teesport and will travel along the A19, A689 and A177 before being taken through Stillington to the site at Lambs Hill.

Community relations manager at The Banks Group, Lewis Stokes, commented: “Work on the Lambs Hill site has progressed well over the summer and we’re excited to reach the point where the turbines will begin to rise.

“Modern, efficient onshore wind farms such as Lambs Hill are acknowledged as providing the lowest cost form of carbon-free renewable energy generation for the UK, and we firmly believe they have a central role to play in the UK’s future energy mix, as well as in generating more of the energy that we all use via renewable means.”

Contracts worth in excess of £1 million have been awarded to North East sub-contractors as part of the creation of the Lambs Hill Wind Farm, which will have an installed capacity of up to 10MW.

Stokes added: “The Lambs Hill wind farm has already brought a range of tangible economic, employment and supply chain benefits to the local area, and we are getting ever closer to being able to generate clean green energy from it.”

The multi-million pound offshore wind farm is to be built off the coast of Northumberland, and will safeguard hundreds of jobs in the region.