Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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7.4.3. Viewpoint 6 also represents local residents but, in this settlement, all houses
are situated at the back of the shingle beach and have sea views towards the
proposed wind farm.
7.4.4. The magnitude and significance of effect from Viewpoints 2 Old Felixstowe, 6
Shingle Street and 8 Southwold is assessed as Negligible. The magnitude and
significance of effect from Viewpoint 3 Aldeburgh is assessed as Low to
Negligible and Minor. These represent visual effects from locations within
these settlements with open views of the proposed development.
7.4.5. Views towards the WTGs are unlikely from the main residential areas of
Walberswick and Dunwich as they are not situated directly on the coast edge.
7.4.6. Whilst distant, glimpsed views are anticipated from some of the elevated
areas of the surrounding, open countryside, it is unlikely there will be views
from the residential areas within the settlements of Orford, Iken, Boyton and
Sudbourne. Similarly, views are not anticipated from residential areas within
the inland settlements of Aldringham, Snape, Snape Maltings, Leiston,
Saxmundham, Sternfield, Tunstall, Butley, Chillesford, Shottisham or
Ramsholt.
7.4.7. The inland settlements of Hollesley, Oak Hill, Bawdsey and Falkenham are
located on elevated ground adjacent to lower-lying areas of coastal
marshland. As the urban morphology of these villages is quite open and
loose, there may be some distant, glimpsed or partial views towards the
proposed WTGs on the seaward horizon line from residential areas in the
eastern parts of these villages. If the proposed WTGs are visible from these
areas, they will be seen as very distant elements in the context of the WTGs of
the GGOWF in the same relatively narrow sector of the seaward view. Given
the distance of the proposed WTGs and the vastness of the overall panorama
in which these views towards the proposed WTGs will be experienced, the
magnitude and overall significance of potential operational effect on the
residential areas on the eastern fringes of these settlements is considered to
be Negligible.
The Travelling Public - Onshore
7.4.8. Viewpoint 4 is representative of the type of oblique, distant, partial views
towards the proposed WTGs that will be seen by the travelling public from
some elevated portions of local roads to the north and west of Alderton,
where gaps in the roadside vegetation allow seaward views. This type of view
is also largely representative of the type of glimpsed, distant oblique views
that will be occasionally seen by people travelling south of Alderton on the
B1083 towards Bawdsey and the distant intermittent views toward the WTGs
that will be seen from some of the local roads connecting Hollesley to