Policy


AP4 Parks and Gardens of Historic or Landscape interest


AP13 Special Landscape Areas


Key points


The District Council will encourage the preservation and/or enhancement of parks and gardens of historic and landscape interest and their surroundings. Planning permission for any proposed development will not be granted if it would have a materially adverse impact on their character, features or immediate setting.


The valleys and tributaries of the Rivers Alde, Blyth, Deben, Fynn, Hundred, Mill, Minsmere, Ore and Yox, and the Parks and Gardens of Historic or Landscape Interest are designated as Special Landscape Areas. The District Council will ensure that no development will take place which would be to the material detriment of, or materially detract from, the special landscape quality.


3.5 The Project Design Envelope 83.


It is recognised that, at the time of submitting an application, offshore wind developers may not know the precise nature and arrangement of infrastructure and associated infrastructure that make up the proposed development. This is due to a number of factors such as the evolution of technology and the need for further detailed surveys (especially geotechnical surveys) which are required before a final design and layout can be made. This flexibility is important as it prevents consent being granted for specific infrastructure or a particular layout which is not possible or optimal by the time of construction, which may be several years after the DCO application, was made.


84.


In accordance with the accepted industry approach, EATL is therefore undertaking the impact assessment based on a worst case scenario of predicted impacts, herein referred to as the project design statement (PDS). The term ‘Rochdale Envelope’ refers to the PDS and is used throughout the Planning Inspectorate Advice Notes. This is discussed further in Chapter 5 Description of the Development.


85.


Advice Note Nine (Planning Inspectorate 2012a) addresses the use of the PDS approach under the Planning Act 2008 (page 6):


“In the course of preparing the ES, a developer should seek to identify those aspects that are likely to give rise to significant adverse impacts, such that the maximum potential adverse impacts of a project have been properly assessed and can be taken into account as part of the decision making process. The Overarching NPS for Energy (EN-1) and the NPS for Renewable Energy Infrastructure (EN-3) both identify the need to address the maximum potential adverse impacts to ensure that the likely impacts of a project as it may be constructed have been properly assessed.”


Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014


East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm


Chapter 3 Policy and Legislative Context Page 23


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