Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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10.2.4. With regard to effects on designated landscapes, views towards the WTGs
from the inland extents of the study area are very limited, with very distant
glimpsed or partial views anticipated from a small number of elevated open
areas lying immediately adjacent to lower-lying areas of marshland and
coastal farmland within the designated landscapes of the study area. On the
coastal edge of these designated landscapes, whilst there will be open views
towards the WTGs along much of their length, the WTGs will be seen in the
same sector of the seaward horizon as the GGOWF. Due to their distance
from the shore and the degree of overlap between the existing and proposed
schemes, the increase in spread and density of WTGs seen on the horizon line
arising from the addition of the proposed GWF will not be significant. The
effect on the designated landscapes within the study area is considered,
therefore, to be of Negligible magnitude and significance.
10.2.5. Similarly, with regard to the extent of effects on landscape character types,
the limited visibility of the WTGs from inland areas means the magnitude
and significance of effect on all of the landscape character types within the
study area will be Negligible and no prospect of any effect upon their
defining characteristics.
10.2.6. With regard to the anticipated effects on the identified regional seascape
units, all of the units will experience some degree of visual exposure towards
the WTGs of the proposed GWF. However, the proposed WTGs will not
directly affect the seascape units and there will be no effects on the physical
elements of their defining characteristics. The only effects will be on distant
views of new WTGs from the units. They will also be seen in the context of
the existing GGOWF. The significance of effect arising from this visual
exposure will be greatest for the seascape units lying north of Bawdsey where
the increased spread of turbines seen on the distant horizon line will be
discernible, and where the proposed wind farm is closest to the receptors,
resulting in a Moderate-Minor significance of effect. Further south, the
decreased spread of the turbines relative to the existing spread of the GGOWF
in views from the coast will combine with the increasing distance of the
proposed turbines from the coastline and the decreased sensitivity of the
coastline around the Port of Felixstowe to reduce the effect on the seascape
units to the south of Bawdsey to a significance that is judged to be Negligible.
10.3. Summary of Visual Effects
Onshore Receptors
10.3.1. The GWF WTGs will be seen from land based viewpoints collectively as a
notable cluster of visual elements on the far horizon line, set within a simple
open panorama comprised predominantly of sea, coastal edge and sky. They
will be seen in the context of the existing GGOWF, with the degree of overlap