Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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Viewpoint
Viewpoint 5 -
Orford Ness near
Lighthouse
Viewpoint 6 -
Shingle Street
near Martello
Tower
Viewpoint 7-
View from the
cliff top, The
Naze
Viewpoint 8 –
The Promenade,
Southwold
Sensitivity to
rype of
change
Magnitude of
Operational
Effect
High Low to Negligible Minor
Significance of
Operational
Effect
High Negligible Negligible
High Negligible Negligible
High Negligible Negligible
7.4. Operational Effects on Visual Receptor Groups in the Wider Study
Area
7.4.1. The operational effects on a range visual receptor groups has been assessed
through the above analysis of the eight agreed representative viewpoints. In
addition to the viewpoint assessment, an on-site check was also undertaken
to consider the likely operational effects on other visual receptor groups
within the study area. These are described in further detail below.
Local Residents
7.4.2. Viewpoints 2, 3 and 8 were selected as representative viewpoints for local
residents living on the seafronts of Old Felixstowe, Aldeburgh and
Southwold. Elsewhere in these settlements, the screening effects of
intervening vegetation and buildings are likely to screen views towards the
proposed WTGs. The same is likely to be the case for the coastal settlements
of Felixstowe, Walton-on-the-Naze, Sizewell and Thorpeness, where views
towards the proposed WTGs will be possible from residential areas along the
seafront but unlikely from residential areas elsewhere in the settlements.