Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
will be Adverse.
11.1.10. The Estate Sandlands is a large landscape character type, extending
for approximately 50km from Felixstowe in the south to Kessingland
in the north. Effects will not be significant. The overall landscape
effects on this landscape character type at Year 15 will be of Negligible
magnitude and Negligible significance.
Coastal Levels
11.1.11. There will be no direct effects on this landscape character type at Year
15. Effects will be caused by changes to the setting of parts of the
character type. The ZTV (Figure 07) indicates that the proposed
substation will have become largely screened from areas of landscape
character type that had visibility at Year 1, with the gantries being the
main elements that remain visible.
11.1.12. The sensitivity of the Coastal Levels is High-Medium. The effects on
areas up to approximately 0.5km north of the cable corridor and
0.3km east of the gantries, at Year 15, are judged to be of Low
magnitude and Moderate-Minor significance. The magnitude and
significance of effect on this character type is likely to decrease
rapidly moving northwards and will not extend further eastwards
than 0.5km due to the screening effects of existing trees west of
Sizewell Gap car park. The effects will, on balance, be Adverse.
11.1.13. These effects will occur within a relatively small area of the Coastal
Levels landscape character type that is already influenced by the
proximity of Sizewell Power Station immediately to the east, and by
pylons and overhead wires crossing the Coastal Levels. The overall
landscape effects on this landscape character type will be of
Negligible magnitude and Negligible significance owing to the extent
of the character area and the limited extent of the landscape
anticipated to be affected by the GWF substation development.