Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
providing a continuation to Sizewell Wents woodland. Existing
young planting implemented as part of GGOWF will also have
matured providing potential screening of the proposed gantries to the
east of the site. The substation is unlikely to be visible from other
sections of Sandlings Walk except for potential occasional more
distant glimpses.
11.3.21. Many of the PROWs to the south of the Sizewell Gap road are aligned
along much of their length by outgrown hedgerows or are fringed by
scrubby vegetation in the wider landscape around them. Views will
be available towards the substation from some of the PROWs to the
south of the site, where views towards the wider landscape open up
through gaps in outgrown boundary. Viewpoint 6 illustrates the
potential most open and direct view from these PROWs. The loss of
existing woodland and replacement with the substation which will
extend over a wider area of the view will cause a noticeable change,
although it will be seen in the context of the existing infrastructure
and power station which act as a backcloth to the view. It will be seen
enclosed and partially screened by proposed woodland planting on
the southern edge, providing a continuation to Sizewell Wents
woodland. The existing features will continue to dominate the view
but the new substation and larger woodland will be an obvious new
feature.
11.3.22. Views from the bridleway running along Sandy Lane in a north-south
direction will be of the new gantries and beyond to a new gap in the
woodland with the existing pylons and GGOWF substation, and the
new GWF substation, silhouetted against the skyline. However, much
of this route is lined with embankments and vegetation screening
views towards the substation and young native trees and shrubs have
been planted in the field to the west of the bridleway, as part of the
GGOWF scheme which will, after 15 years, provide further screening.
The proposed cable corridor will result in the loss of existing
woodland where the bridleway passes the northeast corner of
GGOWF substation, opening up views of substation. Scrub /