Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
14.0 Residual Effects
14.1. During Construction
14.1.1. The mitigation measures discussed in section 13.2 form part of the
proposals assessed in section 9.0 and the residual impacts are
effectively the same as those experienced during construction.
14.2. During Operation
14.2.1. Mitigation has been designed into the proposed scheme in order to
minimise adverse landscape and visual effects. The residual effects
will be as assessed for Year 15 and summarised in Table 5.
14.2.2. Significant (Major or Major-Moderate) effects that are assessed as
adverse in nature will be limited to the following receptors at Year 15.
14.2.3. The site – the character of the site will be changed by the removal of a
large proportion of Sizewell Wents woodland leaving two areas
separated by the new substation, which will extend into what is
currently an arable field where it will be enclosed by a profiled
landform planted with woodland, integrating into the existing
ground profiles and landuses within the retained fields. New planting
will help to integrate the substation into the landscape and create a
greater area of woodland than was lost, increasing the size of Sizewell
Wents by approximately 35%.
14.2.4. The landscape of the AONB will experience effects of Major-Moderate
significance within the site and an area up to approximately 0.3km
from the site, except in areas where existing woodland provides
screening (e.g. some areas to the north) where there will be no effects.
Effects will, on balance, be Adverse.
14.2.5. Visual receptors at two viewpoints will experience significant effects
at Year 15: