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Request for Screening Opinion - Proposed Solar Farm on Land to the South of B570, Gipsy Lane, Irchester, Wellingborough Sirius Planning Ltd 4245 Park Approach Thorpe Park Leeds LS15 8GB 0113 264 9960 www.thesiriusgroup.com Planning Department Borough Council of Wellingborough Swanspool House Doddington Road Wellingborough NN8 1BP Date: 23/11/2020 Our Ref: ARM1010/SCR Dear Sirs, REQUEST FOR SCREENING OPINION - PROPOSED SOLAR FARM ON LAND TO THE SOUTH OF B570, GIPSY LANE, IRCHESTER, WELLINGBOROUGH. I write to request a Screening Opinion under Regulation 5 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (the EIA Regulations), to establish whether or not a planning application for the proposed development is considered to be ‘EIA development’. The EIA Regulations state that requests for Screening Opinions shall be accompanied by a plan to identify the land, a brief description of the nature and purpose of the proposal and, if possible, effects on the environment. The following commentary provides a description of the proposals and a location plan is attached for reference purposes. Introduction In order to address the damaging effects of climate change, we need to move away from burning our limited fossil fuel reserves to using more sustainable, cleaner, renewable energy sources. Large scale deployment of renewables will help the UK to tackle climate change, reducing the UK’s emissions of Vat No. 209 3584 02 Company Registration No. 10518189 carbon dioxide by over 750 million tonnes by 20301. The UK is committed to meeting the legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050. The English Government’s recently published National Planning Policy Framework 2019 confirms that: “The planning system should support the transition to a low carbon future in a changing climate…” Solar farms are a simple and established technology providing a source of safe and clean energy which produce zero emissions when in operation. Solar energy is not only sustainable; it is renewable meaning that we will never run out of it. Solar also enjoys the highest levels of public support of renewable energy in the UK, with 89% of the public in favour2. Solar farms are an effective and an unobtrusive way of creating the electricity for use locally, with the panels having a low visual impact on the local landscape and creating no noise, pollution, bi-products or emissions. Their non-intrusive nature means that the equipment can be lifted and removed from the site and the land returned to its previous use. The Site The site boundary covers approximately 65ha as depicted by the blue line in Figure 1 below, however, only circa 25ha will be used for solar deployment as shown by the redline on Figure 1. Please note the configuration of the redline boundary may alter as detailed surveys are undertaken and mitigation is required, but below is the preferred area based on current understanding of the site. It is not the intention to deploy PV across the full 65ha. Figure 1: Site Location The wider site is known to have been worked for ironstone in the 1940s and then backfilled with inert material. 1 DECC (2011) Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1) 2 DECC Public Attitudes Tracker March 2019 – Wave 29 Page 2 of 11 North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy identifies the site as being part of the Green Infrastructure Corridors and the north western corner of the site as part of the Nene Valley Nature Improvement Area To the north of the proposal site beyond Gipsy Lane is a caravan park, the Irchester Country Park and a 4.5MW solar farm. The A509 runs along the western boundary beyond which lies agricultural fields and the River Nene. Bordering the south-eastern edge of the site are several waterbodies beyond which is agricultural land. An agricultural field lies immediately adjacent to the eastern boundary beyond which is the B569 and the village of Irchester. Access to the site is via an existing field gate on the western boundary of the site off the A509. The Proposal Our client, Renewable Connections, is seeking to a develop solar farm across approximately 25ha of land with an export capacity of 26MW. The arrays will have a maximum height of 3m and will be aligned in east to west rows across the site. The mounting system will be either fixed south facing at an angle of between 10 and 35 degrees or the panels will be mounted on tracking units which whilst still south facing will slowly tilt to follow the sun’s path. The preferred option will be confirmed following detailed survey work. The proposal will comprise: Photovoltaic (PV) panels; Mounting frames – matt finished small section metal structure; Inverter (accommodated on the mounting frames) and transformer (housed in prefabricated containers) and associated cabling (largely below ground); Distribution Network Operator (DNO) substation, DNO meter point, customer substation and system; Security fencing, sympathetic to the area, and infra-red CCTV (CCTV cameras would operate using motion sensors and would be positioned inward only to ensure privacy to neighbouring land and property); Temporary set down area; Internal service roads; Site access during the construction and operational phases; and Scheme of landscaping and biodiversity enhancement. Part of the non-deployment land will be used as a temporary set down area during the construction phase. A proportion of the non-deployment area will be used for continued agriculture and also as an area for biodiversity enhancement. These areas will be confirmed as part of the planning submission. Page 3 of 11 Whilst the deployment area will total approximately 25ha, the solar panels are distributed at a ratio of between 40 to 60% (ground cover ratio). This figure is dependent on local topography and other environmental requirements which will be determined through the survey and assessment work. Once operational the grassland will be managed through sheep grazing. The arrays will be connected to inverter and transformer stations and cables will connect the transformer stations to the on-site substation. The Distribution Network Operator (DNO) will install the connecting cable from the proposed on-site substation via underground cabling in the highway using their permitted development rights as statutory undertaker. To secure the site, a fence approximately 2 metres high will be erected around the site and infra-red CCTV coverage will be provided. The fencing is likely to be deer fencing, or similar, so as to provide a visually recessive and less obtrusive visual element into the landscape; the exact specification will be agreed with the LPA. The proposal will have a lifespan of 40 years, after which all equipment will be removed from the site and the land will be returned to its existing use. The arrangement of the proposal will be informed by detailed environmental survey, however, to date preliminary ecology and landscape and visual surveys have been undertaken which have informed the indicative extent of the proposal site, as shown on drawing ARM1010/07/01 and Figure 1. Initial Baseline Surveys Landscape and Visual The potential impacts arising from the proposal on the local landscape character and visual amenity will be considered through a full Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment. The LVIA will be carried out in accordance with the Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment 3rd Edition (Landscape Institute and IEMA, 2013) (GLVIA 2013), tailored to whether an Impact Appraisal or Impact Assessment is undertaken, following the screening response. A baseline landscape assessment will consider all national, regional and district landscape character assessments applicable to the study area. Effects upon the landscape resource of the site (a former mineral extraction area) and the wider study area will be considered. A series of visual assessment points will be identified and agreed with the Council's landscape / planning officer. At these locations a photomontage would be produced to illustrate the scale of the development and likely visual effects. Depending upon the sensitivity of other locations, further viewpoints could also be produced to illustrate the likely scale and landscape impacts of the proposal. Opportunities to provide landscape enhancements will be considered. A previous screening response relating to solar development at the site (WP/19/00202/SCR) cited potential visual effects and the scale of the development as a reason for an EIA assessment, stating Page 4 of 11 that the scheme …”would have a substantial visual impact (other issues would require scoping) due to its scale”. It is unclear how these statements were previously concluded prior to any assessments being undertaken. To assist the council with this screening response a Zone of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV) and Viewpoint Photographs are supplied with this screening request. The ZTV is a tool used to assist in determining areas where the development theoretically could and would not be seen. The ZTV serves to illustrate areas where it may be theoretically possible to view all or part of the proposed development. They are generated using survey height points of 3m above ground level set at representative locations within the deployment area. The ZTV takes account of the screening provided by buildings and woodlands (although hedgerows and scrub blocks are excluded). The ZTV illustrates that visibility would be limited within the study area, focussed to the non-populated agricultural areas to the south and west of the site, and the road corridors which travel through. The viewpoint photographs illustrate some of the publicly accessible locations where visibility is to be expected, in many cases illustrating the actual limited visibility to the site from all but the areas immediately adjoining the site boundary. The scale of solar farm development in the locality is also evident in the views to the operational Wellingborough Solar Farm, located beside the large-scale prison site (under construction at the time of site visit).
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