29.3.1 Scenario 1: Impacts of Onshore Cable Route Construction on Physical Elements 23.
The use of the existing ducts to pull through the onshore cable route would notably reduce the potential impacts on the physical elements. Instead of disturbance to the vegetation and water courses occurring along most of the 37km length of the cable route, it will be concentrated in very localised areas where either jointing pits would be constructed and cables pulled through or at Construction Consolidation Sites where machinery and materials would be stored and ancillary buildings located.
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The potential impacts on the physical elements would be notably reduced by the existing presence of the ducts, as disturbance to, or loss of vegetation would be limited to around the jointing pits and the Construction Consolidation Sites. The majority of the works would take place in the less sensitive agricultural land with relatively little disturbance to hedgerows or woodland. The impact on the physical elements would be not significant owing to the relatively small proportion of the wider physical elements that would be disturbed or removed, the localised extents of the impacts and the reversibility of impacts through the reinstatement of vegetation on completion of the construction works.
29.3.2 Scenario 1: Impacts of Onshore Cable Route Construction on Landscape Character 25.
The potential impacts on landscape character would be notably reduced by the existing presence of the ducts, whereby the pull-through process would reduce the extent to which the character of the landscape would be altered. Construction Consolidation Sites would still be a requirement and a concentration of construction activity would occur in relation to the construction of the intermittent jointing pits. The impact on the landscape character receptors would be not significant owing to the localised influence of the construction works, the limited extent to which the characterising features of the landscape would be altered, the impermanent nature of the construction works, their short-term duration and the reversibility of any residual impacts.
29.3.3 Scenario 1: Impacts of Onshore Cable Route Construction on Visual Amenity 26.
The potential impacts of the onshore cable route on the visual amenity of the residents, road-users, walkers, horse riders, sailors and other visual receptors would arise principally from the construction of the intermittent jointing pits and the presence and activity of the Construction Consolidation Sites. While the construction works would come close to a number of PRoWs, roads, settlements and rivers, the impacts would be not significant owing to the localised influence of the construction works, the limited visibility of the construction works across a wider area, the impermanent nature of the construction works, their short-term duration and the reversibility of any residual impacts.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm Appendix 0 Example
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