Michael Moll Email & Phone Number

Heading up a newly established project and programme team and overseeing the delivery of the portfolio of projects and programmes within the Growth Highways and Infrastructure Department. This includes key corporate programmes on climate emergency/Net Zero, biodiversity and transport. I also head up, as SRO, the Council’s involvement in Sizewell C and other Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

Following five years as Programme Director for Sizewell C, leading Suffolk County Council through the DCO examination, my Programme Director role has been expanded to oversee Suffolk County Council’s responses to all (12 to 14) current and expected NSIPs in Suffolk, heading up the Council’s NSIP function. The NSIPs include the Sizewell C nuclear power station, the UK’s largest proposed solar farm, National Grid onshore network reinforcements, sub-sea grid inter-connectors landing in Suffolk, several offshore wind farms and up to two highway schemes.

Suffolk County Council’s lead officer for the Sizewell C nuclear power station application, during pre-application consultations, DCO application and examination. This included acting as Suffolk County Council’s lead negotiator and interface with the developer; coordination of 1,000s of pages of submissions to the examining authority; being the interface with our political leadership and securing political approval; orchestrating a team of 35+ officers and lead client role for barrister; team of solicitors and expert consultants; securing an appropriate substantial Planning Performance Agreement with the developer and managing the budget; masterminding a strategy of maximising benefits for Suffolk; and securing a >£180m package of mitigation and numerous improvements to the proposals from the developer. Sizewell C DCO application will have been the largest, most complex and most information-rich NSIP application the UK has seen, and if approved, Sizewell C would become one of the largest building sites in Europe.

Ipswich

Managing programmes and coordinating a transformation portfolio in the Council's Programme Management Office, acting as the Council's Programme Director for the proposed new Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station, and programme manager of the Better Broadband for Suffolk programme.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Managing major change and transformation initiatives, providing programme and project management, leadership and advice.Key programmes that I have been responsible for include the "Raising the Bar" Programme, a Suffolk-wide initiative to raise attainment and aspiration amongst children and young people; a significant corporate programme to transform adult social care services in Suffolk; and I took a leading role in the divestment of two large services into innovatively set up social enterprises (employee owned Leading Lives IPS and local library group owned Suffolk Libraries IPS) where I provided the advice on structural and legal forms, conducted for Suffolk Libraries a Best Value analysis, and project managed the transfer of services.

County Council lead in sub-regional partnership working in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.

Great Yarmouth

Part time role - involved in the set up of the fledgling Urban Regeneration Company, and then established relationships and lead work on spatial planning with partner organisations.

Part time role - I managed the UK partnership and an international work package team in an EU funded €3m international project to support the development of an offshore wind supply chain in the North Sea area.

Spatial planning liaison with Districts and Boroughs, European Spatial Planning input to Interreg projects; Energy strategy work.

Masters In Public Service Management Programme (Diploma)

Diplomingenieur Raumplanung (Equivalent To Masters Of Spatial Planning/Town Planning)