Consultee


Natural England


Date /Document


March 2013


Comment


The potential requirement for maintenance works such as the deposition of protection or stabilisation material relating to cable exposure or malfunction has not been appropriately explored. We advise that an assessment outlining the potential for any maintenance works over the lifetime of the project, including works such as turbine or cabling requirements, is fully explored to ensure that any associated environmental impacts are fully considered within the Environmental Assessment. Without this assessment, we do not consider that the potential impacts of the development have been fully or robustly explored.


10.3 Scope


10.3.1 Study Area 8.


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9. 10.


For the purposes of the benthic ecology assessment the proposed East Anglia THREE project has been divided up into two study areas:


The East Anglia THREE site; and The offshore cable corridor.


When assessing some impacts, the intertidal area at the landfall location is also treated as a separate study area.


East Anglia THREE would have the same landfall location as East Anglia ONE and would utilise part of the East Anglia ONE offshore cable corridor. There are a number of options for the point at which the East Anglia THREE export cable would join this offshore cable corridor (Figure 10.1).


11.


Within this chapter, these study areas are also placed within the context of the East Anglia Zone and the wider southern North Sea. Therefore a third study area which contains the East Anglia Zone and the offshore cable corridor is referred to, this area is termed the “East Anglia Zone”.


Response / where addressed in the PEIR


The potential impacts of maintenance works have been assessed in section 10.9.2.


Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014


East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm


Chapter 10 Benthic Ecology Page 7


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