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Appendix 4: Source Documents
Landscape & Renewable Energy Policy
� South Coastal District Plan - Adopted 2006 (Suffolk Coastal District
Council)
� Planning Policy Guidance 20: Coastal Planning (Sept 1992, HMSO)
� Planning Policy Statement 22: Renewable Energy (Feb 2004, HMSO)
� Planning for Renewable Energy: A companion Guide to PPS22 (ODPM,
2004)
� UK Marine Policy Statement (HM Government, Northern Ireland
Executive, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government, March
2011)
� Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1). Department
of Energy & Climate Change, July 2011.
� National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure (EN-3).
Department of Energy & Climate Change, July 2011.
Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment
� The Countryside Agency's Character Map (Character Area No. 82).
� Suffolk Landscape Character Assessment, (Suffolk County Council,
2008).
� Visual Representation of Wind Farms Best Practice Guidance, (Scottish
Natural Heritage, 2006, albeit published in 2007).
� Guidance on the Assessment of the Effect of Offshore Wind Farms,
(Department of Trade & Industry, 2005).
� An assessment of the sensitivity and capacity of the Scottish Seascape in
relation to wind farms, (Scottish Natural Heritage commissioned Report
103, 2005).
� Guidance: Cumulative Effects of Wind Farms, (Scottish Natural Heritage,
2005).
� Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (Institute of
Environmental Management and Assessment/Landscape Institute, 2002)
� Landscape Character Assessment Guidance (Countryside
Agency/Scottish Natural Heritage, 2002)
� Maritime Ireland/Wales Interreg 1994-1999 'Guide to Best Practice in
Seascape Assessment' (GSA) published in March 2001.