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Chapter 29 Seascape, Landscape and Visual Amenity
124. The majority of the landscape and visual receptors assessed would experience effects which would be not significant. Where significant impacts would arise, most would be short term, localised and reversible. Potential long term impacts relating to the converter station would be reduced in the medium term by the effects of mitigation planting. These impacts would also be localised and reversible.
125. Embedded mitigation has reduced significant impacts in many aspects of the proposed project. Careful site selection for the landfall location and converter station, and sensitive routeing of the onshore cable route at the design stage has ensured that especially sensitive landscapes and landscape features have largely been avoided. It has also ensured that existing landscape features, such as the existing woodland around the converter station, have been used to best effect for screening purposes, with the addition of supplementary planting to screen almost every aspect of the converter station.
126. The contained extents of the construction and decommissioning works, and operational components of the proposed project, have ensured that all significant impacts occur within the close range of the proposed project thus avoiding the spread of significant effects beyond this close range.
30.4 Conclusions
127. For all offshore topics, the assessments conclude that the proposed East Anglia THREE project alone will not result in significant impacts. In many cases this is the result of sensitive siting of the East Anglia THREE site and offshore cable corridor. Where any potentially significant impacts have been identified, mitigation has been proposed to reduce the impacts to not significant. Potentially significant cumulative impacts have been identified for marine mammals, however the contribution by the proposed project is minimal and it is considered that this assessment is highly precautionary. With regard to offshore ornithology, no cumulative impact conclusions have been made at the current time.
128. For all onshore topics, the assessments conclude that the proposed East Anglia THREE project will not result in significant impacts once appropriate mitigation has been implemented. Again the site selection, particularly of the onshore cable route resulted in many potential impacts being avoided completely. The inclusion of mitigation measures agreed for the proposed East Anglia ONE project would ensure that impacts are minimised.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
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