29.4 Scenario 1: Impacts of Landfall Location and Cable Route Operation
27. Under scenario 1 the operational impacts of the project would be limited, with maintenance along the landfall and onshore cable route, comprising as a worst case, one visit per year per jointing pit. Routine maintenance works during operation would either be via excavation at jointing pits or inspection of above-ground kiosks.
28. Once the construction phase is complete and the East Anglia THREE project is operational, there would be limited visible evidence of the landfall location and the onshore cable route as they would be concealed below ground surface. Kiosks, if used, would be located at each of the jointing pits and would be the only above ground feature of the onshore cable route. In Scenario 1 it is assumed that the East Anglia ONE project would also be operational and this would also be concealed below ground surface.
29.4.1 Scenario 1: Impacts of Landfall Location and Onshore Cable Route Operation on Physical Elements
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The potential impacts during operation on the physical elements would be not significant, as no further removals or alterations would occur and where gaps in hedgerows had been formed during the construction phase, during the operational phase re-planting would gradually grow to infill these gaps.
29.4.2 Scenario 1: Impacts of Landfall Location and Onshore Cable Route Operation on Landscape Character
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The potential impacts during operation on landscape character would be not significant as there would be no visible evidence of the constructed components, other than the intermittent, small scale and relatively discreet kiosks, and no further presence of construction works or machinery. While there would be residual impacts on landscape character and visual amenity relating to the time required for hedgerow vegetation to re-establish, the impact would be not significant owing to the limited amount of removal which would have occurred under scenario 1, the limited extent of these impacts in relation to the wider extents of the LCTs and the AONB, and the gradual reduction in these impacts as the vegetation grows.
29.4.3 Scenario 1: Impacts of Landfall Location and Onshore Cable Route Operation on Visual Amenity
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The potential impacts during operation on visual amenity would be not significant, as there would be no visible evidence of the constructed components, other than the intermittent, small scale and relatively discreet kiosks, and no further presence of construction works or machinery. While there would be residual impacts on visual amenity relating to the time required for hedgerow vegetation to re-establish,
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