Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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September 2011
GALLOPER WIND FARM SUBSTATION
10.1.9. 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 at Year 1 will be of Negligible magnitude
and Negligible significance.
Coastal Levels
10.1.10. There will be no direct effects on this landscape character type at Year
1. Effects will be caused by changes to the setting of the character
type. The removal of trees within Sizewell Wents woodland will open
up visibility of the substation and sealing end compounds and
gantries and this will indirectly affect landscape character. The ZTV
(Figure 06) indicates that the proposed substation might be visible
from a narrow area of the Coastal Levels landscape character type
extending for up to 1km northwards and from the southernmost
finger of the character type west of Sizewell Beach car park. In
addition, construction of the proposed cable corridor will result in the
removal of existing woodland between the bridleway and the
substation to the northeast of the GGOWF substation, opening up
views of the GGOWF substation from an area of grazing meadows
within the Coastal Levels. These changes could result in effects of
Medium magnitude on landscape character up to approximately
0.5km north of GGOWF and 0.3km east of the gantries. The
sensitivity of the Coastal Levels is High-Medium. The significance of
effect in these areas is judged to be Major-Moderate. The magnitude
and significance of effect on this character type is likely to decrease
rapidly moving northwards. Effects will not extend beyond
approximately 0.3km east of the gantries due to the buffering effects
of existing trees west of Sizewell Beach car park. The effects will be
Adverse.
10.1.11. These effects will occur within a relatively small area of the Coastal