Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
the site - north of Sizewell Gap road, east of Lover’s Lane, south of
Sandy Lane and west of the woodland west of Sizewell. It is notable
that the proposed woodland planting is likely to completely screen
the substation from the rural land up to almost 0.5km to the south,
west and north. Planting will also reduce areas with visibility of the
substation and gantries from areas beyond this. It should be borne in
mind, however, that mitigation planting will be screening many of
the lower elements within the substation and it might be that only
the tops of the tallest structures (e.g. the tallest buildings) are actually
visible at Year 15 from areas where no change in visibility is shown.
This is confirmed by examining the photomontage views at Years 1
and 15.
7.1.12. Site assessment identifies that actual visibility is much less than
indicated on Figures 06 and 07. There are many small scale features
including trees and hedgerows present in the landscape that reduce
visibility further than indicated on the ZTV plans.