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South Dublin County Council N7 Newlands Cross Upgrade Environmental Impact Statement Arup Consulting Engineers 3.11.11 Construction Impacts and Mitigationn 3.11.11.1 Construction Impacts During the construction stage both options will have a significant and negative visual impact. The primary landscape impact will be caused by the removal of the existing tree planting along the northern boundaries of the Newlands Golf Course and the agriculture land to the east, to allow for the temporarily diverted traffic. To the north of the road corridor the temporary traffic diversion will require the removal of some of the tree planting along the edge of the open space located at Boot Road and the removal of the grass verge to the east of the junction. Visual impact will be caused by the following elements associated with construction work: • Removal of existing tree planting / vegetation • Dusting • Construction Traffic • Site Huts • Building materials • Ground Disturbance / temp works • Site Hoarding/ Security Fencing • Construction Work/ Cranes The visual impacts due to construction will be short term and will terminate upon completion of the development. 3.11.11.2 Mitigation (Construction Phase) Visual Impact: The visual impact during construction phase will be partially mitigated somewhat by appropriate site management measures and work practices to ensure the site is kept tidy, dust is kept to a minimum, and that public areas are kept free from building material and site rubbish. Appropriate site hoardings will be put in place around the perimeter of the site. Car parking will be provided for construction staff on site to prevent parking on the surrounding road network. In general the visual impact will be seen as an unavoidable part of construction works. The impact will be temporary and to ensure the time frame for construction is as short as possible, taking into account health and safety issues, proper site management procedures will be implemented to ensure that the works are completed on programme. Landscape Impact: Tree protection measures will be implemented to protect the trees, located on, or adjacent to, the site, that will not be removed. The removal of the existing trees will be mitigated, after the construction works are completed, by their replacement with trees of similar species. December 2007 Page 47
South Dublin County Council N7 Newlands Cross Upgrade Environmental Impact Statement Arup Consulting Engineers 3.11.12 Operation Impacts and Mitigation 3.11.12.1 Impacts of the Proposed Development In visual/landscape terms the proposed development will impact in varying degrees upon three inter-related aspects as follows:- 1.) The perceived character of the area 2.) Impact on the existing views 3.) Its visual amenity Perceived Character: The character of the existing road corridor is generally considered as having little or no visual amenity value and is seen as a necessary element of infrastructure to cater for the volumes of traffic that exist at present. 3.11.12.2 Impact of the Proposed Development – Option 1 (Overpass) The grade separated interchange will be viewed as a raised platform with access ramps aligned along the axis of the existing road in an east – west direction. The ramps will be elevated to a maximum height of 9 metres over grade (See Figures 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8). The completed overpass structure will consist of a road carriageway on precast concrete beams supported on concrete columns. The following visual elements will form part of the completed overpass. • Selected facing panels to the side walls of the elevated roadway. • Galvanised steel crash barriers 1.25 metres high to the sides of the proposed overpass. • The median will consist of an insitu concrete barrier approximately one metre in height, typical of motorway construction. • Lighting columns (not designed to date) will be located along the edge of the roadway. • Noise barriers may be used on the sides of the overpass in certain locations. (The use of acoustic barriers will be dependent on the results from the noise consultant recommendations). • Typical motorway / NRA road signage at the required locations along the road corridor. • A new two-metre high stone boundary wall along the northern boundary of Newlands Golf Course with mounding and tree planting behind. • A new two-metre high stone boundary wall along the boundary of the agricultural land to the south east with new tree planting behind. The visual impact will be extremely localised given the scale and extent of the road corridor. Once the tree planting has established along the boundary of the golf course the visual impact will be moderate and neutral. The development will be seen as a natural improvement to the road system and will be compatible with other major intersections along the N7. Due to the localised nature of the development the only housing group to be affected by a moderate and negative visual impact will be the row of two-storey houses located to the north-east backing onto the N7. There will also be a localised visual impact on a small area of the Newlands Golf Course to the south. In addition the improvement of traffic flow through the junction will greatly reduce the visual and environmental impact caused by existing excessive slow moving traffic at the junction. December 2007 Page 48
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