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Code 813f


Soil association


Wallasea 1


Soil description


Deep stoneless clayey soils. Locally some peaty horizons. Groundwater controlled by ditches and pumps. Flat land, at slight risk of flooding.


541t 572p 411d


571o 571x


711r 813a Wick 3 Burlingham 3 Hanslope


Melford Ludford


Beccles 1 Midelney


Deep well drained loamy, often stoneless soils. Risk of water erosion.


Deep loamy soils.


Slowly permeable clayey soils with slight risk of water erosion.


Deep well drained loamy and sandy soils, locally flinty with some underlying gravel in places. Slight risk of water erosion.


Slowly permeable loamy over clayey soils, subject to seasonal waterlogging.


Stoneless clayey soils, mostly overlying peat. Variable groundwater, often controlled by ditches/pumps. Flat land with local flooding risk.


3.2.2 Agricultural Land Classification


The Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) system classifies land into five grades. The ‘best and most versatile land’ is defined as Grades 1 and 2.


3.2.2.1 Landfall The land within the landfall area is all classified as ALC Grade 2.


3.2.2.2 Preferred Onshore Cable Corrdor


The ALC along the majority of the Preferred Onshore Cable Corridor is Grade 3. However, there are smaller areas of Grade 2 located around Falkenham and Kirton, east of the A12, north of Playford, north of Tuddenham St Martin, between Akenham and Westerfield and from Little Blakeham to the Converter Station Refined Area of Search.


3.2.2.3 Converter Station Refined Area of Search


The majority of the Converter Station Refined Area of Search is ALC Grade 2, although there is an area of ALC Grade 3 land across the northern area of the Converter Station Refined Area of Search.


Parent material Marine alluvium


Glaciofluvial and aeolian drift


Chalky till and glaciofluvial drift


Chalky till Deep well drained loamy over clayey soils. Chalky till Glaciofluvial drift Chalky till


River alluvium over peat


East Anglia Offshore Wind Limited


Preliminary Risk Assessment, East Anglia ONE Windfarm 41388-PRA(03)


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