Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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Alderton and to Oak Hill. Viewpoint 4 is also representative of the type of
oblique distant view that may be seen by the public when travelling between
Iken and Orford on local roads to the east of Short Reach and to the east of the
Sudbourne Marshes. Given the distant, oblique and partial distant nature of
these views, the magnitude and significance of operational effect of the
WTGs on motorists travelling along these local roads is considered to be
Negligible.
7.4.9. Elsewhere, in the wider inland landscape of the study area, there will be no
significant anticipated views towards the WTGs seen by travellers using the
A1094, A1095, B1122, B1125, B1387, B1353 or the B1119.
Visitors - Onshore
7.4.10. Visitors to Orford Castle are represented by viewpoint 1 and visitors to the
beaches at Old Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, Orford Ness, Shingle Street, the Naze
and Southwold are represented by viewpoints 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
The views towards the WTGs of the proposed GWF illustrated for these
viewpoints are broadly representative of how the WTGs will appear in views
from beach areas further along the coast in respect of the distance, height,
spread and arrangement of the proposed WTGs and how they will be seen in
the context of view towards the existing GGOWF. As such, visitors to
beaches from Orford Ness up to approximately Thorpeness are generally
anticipated to experience a Low to Negligible magnitude of visual effect
arising from the proposed WTGs with an overall significance of operational
effect that is judged to be Minor. Moving northwards along the coast, the
proposed GWF becomes more distant and the magnitude and significance of
effect will reduce to Negligible at the beaches of Walberswick, Dunwich and
Southwold.
7.4.11. Visitors to beaches to the south of Orford Ness, such as at Felixstowe and
Walton-on-the-Naze, are generally anticipated to experience a Negligible
magnitude and significance of visual effect.
7.4.12. At the Dunwich Heath National Trust Visitor’s Centre there are elevated
panoramic seaward views from the cliff top areas and there are sea views
from some of the lower dune levels too. There are also panoramic inland
views over the Minsmere Levels to the south, with distant views towards
Sizewell power station and a prominent series of pylons visible in the
distance, beyond a wooded back drop. There are also existing views from the
Visitor’s Centre towards the offshore sea platforms off the beach at Sizewell.
The proposed WTGs will be visible in distant views in the southeast sector of
seaward views seen from the Visitor’s Centre, to the east of Sizewell power
station, beyond and to the left of the WTGs of the GGOWF. The relatively
minor additional spread of WTGs within the view and the overall vastness of