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BOC Immingham Dissolved Acetylene Project Environmental Statement: Vol. 2 Main Text
Transport
16.62 The Vireol development is in Grimsby rather than Stallingborough and so vehicles accessing the
development are likely to use a different road network.
16.63 The transport assessment in Chapter 12 has already assessed the effects of other committed
developments. The assessment concluded that there would be no significant transport impacts
during operation, even taking into account other committed developments.
Landscape and Visual
16.64 It has been identified within the landscape impact assessment that there is a frequent occurrence
of large scale buildings and engineering elements within the landscape and that widespread
movement within the existing landscape exerts influence on the character. It is considered that the
landscape offers scope for multiple schemes to appear as just another recurring element in a
heavily influenced landscape and would not result in a fundamental change to the local landscape
character.
16.65 Similarly for the visual aspect of the assessment, it has been assessed that the large industrial
elements present in views present prominent features. From many receptor locations it is not
anticipated that all elements that would form the proposed developments would be visible when
seen from one static view point. The visibility of a greater proportion of development features is
likely to be gained from those receptors which are travelling through the landscape and
experiencing sequential views xxv or when successive views xxvi are achievable. The accumulation
of changes brought about by the developments would be incremental and concentrated in an
already visually ‘built up’ area. It is anticipated that this would result in a visual intensification of
the presence of large scale built elements; however, this would not appear disproportionately
dominant within the already distinctive skyline.
16.66 It is considered that the landscape and visual cumulative impacts would be long term in nature.
However, it is anticipated that the incremental introduction of the proposed developments
considered for this cumulative assessment would not result in a significant impact in landscape or
visual terms.
16.67 In summary, it is concluded that there will be no significant cumulative visual impacts, or impacts
on landscape character as a result of concurrent operation of the Dissolved Acetylene Project with
the other proposed developments considered.
Historic Environment
16.68 There are no Built Heritage Assets on or close to the Dissolved Acetylene Project site. Beyond the
presence of the new facilities and its potential to impact on the local historic landscape (an impact
of neutral significance) the Dissolved Acetylene Project would not have any other effects on the
historic environment. Thus it is considered highly unlikely that there could be any significant
cumulative impacts as a result of the operational phases of the other proposed developments.
xxv The reoccurrence of visibility of a landscape feature during the passage through a landscape.
xxvi Where the viewer has to turn their heads to view different elements within the view.
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