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GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT September 2011 A Worton Rectory Park Oxford OX29 4SX United Kingdom T +44 (0) 1865 887050 F +44 (0) 1865 887055 W www.lda-design.co.uk LDA Design Consulting LLP Registered No: OC307725 17 Minster Precincts, Peterborough PE1 1XX
September 2011 GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION Contents 1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................ 6 1.2. The Proposed Development ......................................................................................... 6 1.3. Wireframes and Photomontages ............................................................................... 7 1.4. The Study Area............................................................................................................... 11 2.0 Assessment Methodology ..................................................................... 12 2.1. Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment Methodology ............................. 12 2.2. Scope of Study ................................................................................................................ 12 2.3. Consultation ................................................................................................................... 13 2.4. Field Study ....................................................................................................................... 18 3.0 Landscape Policy Context ..................................................................... 20 3.1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 20 3.2. Landscape Designations ............................................................................................. 20 3.3. Suffolk Heritage Coast ................................................................................................ 28 3.4. Special Landscape Areas............................................................................................. 29 3.5. Historic Environment ................................................................................................. 29 4.0 The Existing Landscape Environment ................................................. 32 4.1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 32 4.2. Landscape Character and Features of the Development Site and its Immediate Context ...................................................................................................... 32 4.3. Existing Landscape Character Assessments ....................................................... 37 5.0 The Existing Visual Environment ........................................................ 43 5.2. Initial ZTV ....................................................................................................................... 43 5.3. Key Visual Receptor Groups ..................................................................................... 44 5.4. Representative Viewpoint Appraisal .................................................................... 46 6.0 Potential for Cumulative Effects .......................................................... 56 7.0 ZTV Study .............................................................................................. 57 8.0 Description of the Proposals and Nature of Effects ............................. 60 8.2. Lighting ............................................................................................................................ 63 8.3. Programme ...................................................................................................................... 64 8.4. Decommissioning ........................................................................................................ 65 2890_LVIA
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Character Area 82 Suffolk Coast and
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several small greens in an attempt
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1 Ancient Estate Claylands EP/Edit1
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5 Coastal Dunes and Shingle Ridges
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Management Guidelines 1 Ensure new
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Management Guidelines Sandlings Woo
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Management Guidelines 1 Retain the
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Management Guidelines 1 Do not grub
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How to use the Landscape Character
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2842_SLVIA Contents 1.0 Introductio
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2842_SLVIA Appendix Appendix 1: Sea
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2842_SLVIA 1 1.0 Introduction 1.1.1
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2842_SLVIA 3 The majority of the WT
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2842_SLVIA 5 2.0 Assessment Methodo
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2842_SLVIA 9 Table 2: Consultation
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2842_SLVIA 29 Sensitivity to Change
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2842_SLVIA 41 Perceptual Qualities
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