Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

2842_LVIA
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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
Consultation on Preliminary Environmental Report
2.3.4. A Preliminary Environmental Report (PER) on the offshore and
onshore aspects of the project and its likely environmental impacts
was published in June 2011, to inform the statutory pre-application
consultation under Section 42 of the Planning Act 2008. The aim of
the statutory consultation was to inform relevant stakeholders and
those with an interest in the application about the project and its
impacts, and to receive their comments. The results of the
consultation were used to inform the design of the proposals, the
Environmental Statement (ES) and those aspects of the project which
had yet to be finalised.
2.3.5. The proposals presented in the PER showed an envelope of potential
developed area with little mitigation. The comments received were
used to inform further scheme design, which is the subject of the
scheme assessed in this LVIA. A full schedule of consultation
responses and how they have been addressed is included in the ES.
The main responses relevant to landscape and visual issues are
summarised below.
Design and mitigation
� Current mitigation proposals (as presented in the PER) are
inadequate to screen the substation;
� Importance of providing sufficient and appropriate landscaping
and minimising landscape and visual impacts due to the location
of the substation in an AONB;
� The Development Consent Order (DCO) should contain details of
slab levels, proposed screen bund cross sections, approximate
arrangements of significant elements of substation buildings and
equipment and key landscape mitigation;
� Lower slab level;
� Increase bund/planting and screening;