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2842_LVIA<br />

146<br />

September 2011<br />

GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION<br />

16.2. Summary of Effects on Landscape Character<br />

16.2.1. The magnitude and significance of effects of the substation and<br />

connection to the <strong>National</strong> Grid on landscape character will be<br />

similar during construction and at Year 1. One of the main changes<br />

during construction will be the removal of a proportion of Sizewell<br />

Wents woodland and this effect will remain on completion. During<br />

construction there will be added disturbance from temporary lay<br />

down and site accommodation extending over a wider area than the<br />

substation site itself, and from elements such as spoil heaps,<br />

construction traffic and the visual movement of vehicles.<br />

16.2.2. At Year 1 a profiled landform will have been created around part of<br />

the substation where it extends westwards into arable and grass fields.<br />

The proposed landform and retained areas of Sizewell Wents will<br />

screen much of the substation, limiting effects on landscape character<br />

to some degree. The proposed landform will integrate with the<br />

existing landform due to gradual external slopes. However, the<br />

proposed landform, substation and gantries will have adverse effects<br />

on landscape character.<br />

16.2.3. At Year 15 mitigation planting associated with GWF and GGOWF<br />

will have matured and will help to screen the development and<br />

integrate it into the landscape. The new woodland to the north, west<br />

and south, planted on the proposed landform, will screen all but the<br />

tallest structures within the substation compounds. Woodland<br />

planting will cloak the highest parts of the proposed landform with<br />

the lower, outside slopes being planted with a woodland edge to<br />

create an organic, naturalist edge comprising native shrubs and open<br />

grassland, before joining the arable or grassland fields. This treatment<br />

would be appropriate to local landscape character and the principles<br />

of the Sizewell Vision being developed by EDF Energy.<br />

16.2.4. Planting would reduce the effects on landscape character from High<br />

magnitude (at Year 1) to Medium magnitude (at Year 15) as follows:

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