Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
9.1.16. One of the operations during construction will be the removal of a
large proportion of the existing Sizewell Wents woodland. There will
also be disturbance from temporary lay down and site
accommodation extending over a wider area than the substation site
itself, and from elements such as spoil heaps, construction traffic and
the visual movement of vehicles. Excavation including works to
lower the substation platform, use of subsoil and topsoil to form the
proposed landform, and construction of the elements within the
substation and the cable connections and sealing end compounds and
gantries will affect the character of the landscape. They will be new
elements in the landscape, albeit set within the context of existing
infrastructure at GGOWF substation and the adjacent pylons and
overhead wires, and the more distant Sizewell Power Station.
Construction lighting will also affect landscape character, when it is
needed during working hours.
9.1.17. Within the areas described in paragraph 9.1.8 (including Sizewell
Wents wood, part of Broom Covert, the two arable fields to the south
of Broom Covert and Sizewell Wents (up to Sizewell Gap road), and
the land within which the gantries will be located (up to Sandy Lane))
the magnitude of effect during construction will be High. The
sensitivity of the Estate Sandlands is Medium. The significance of
effect during construction within this localised area will be Major.
Beyond this distance the magnitude and significance of effect would
reduce rapidly with distance, and as existing vegetation, landform and
development buffers effects. The effects will be Adverse.
9.1.18. The Estate Sandlands is a large landscape character type, extending
for approximately 50km from Felixstowe in the south to Kessingland
in the north. Significant (Major-Moderate or Major) effects will be
experienced in a local area already influenced by large scale
infrastructure associated with Sizewell Power Station and electricity
transmission. However, the overall landscape effects on this
landscape character type during construction will be of Negligible
magnitude and Negligible significance.