Appendix 1 to Landscape and Visual Issues

Relating to the Onshore Development at Friston

Required for East Anglia ONE North/ TWO Offshore Wind Farms

Prepared for Substation Action Save East Suffolk (SASES)

LPA Suffolk Coastal (East Suffolk)

PINS Refence EN010077 & EN010078

October 2020

Company Registration No. 09809868 Registered Office: 35 Pickford Road Bexleyheath DA7 4AG

Prepared by: Michelle Bolger

Position: Director I Landscape Architect

Qualifications: CMLI, Dip. LA, BA (Hons) LA, PGCE, BA (Hons) Eng

File name: 1080 Appendix 1 East Anglia One North & East Anglia Two Final.docx

Date issued: 30th October 2020

Status: Final

1080 Appendix 1 East Anglia One North & East Anglia Two Final.docx

CONTENTS

Figure 1: Onshore Development Area

Figure 2: Designations

Figure 3: Landscape Character

Figure 4: Additional Corridor

Figure 5: Substations and NG Infrastructure

Figure 6: First Edition OS (1884)

Figure 7: Topography

Figure 8: Aerial Photograph

Figure 9: Aerial Photograph + Proposal

Figure 10: Constraints & Proposal

Figure 11: Enhanced Mitigation Strategy

Figure 12: Photograph A

Figure 13: Photographs B-D

Figure 14: Re-presentation of Viewpoint 9

Figure 15: Re-presentation of Viewpoint 10

1080 Appendix 1 East Anglia One North & East Anglia Two Final.docx Leiston CP

Sternfield CP Knodishall CP

Aldringham Cum Thorpe CP

Friston CP

Source: Legend ODA Sections FIGURE 1 Onshore Development Area and Sections derived from ES Figure 6.2 EA1N & EA2 Onshore Development Area (ODA) Landfall Section 4 Onshore Development Area

Parish Boundaries Section 1 Onshore Substations and PROJECT National Grid Infrastructure 1080 Galloper Substation (Built) Section 2 East Anglia One North Section 3 CLIENT 0 250 500 1km Substation Action Save East Suffolk ©Crown Copyright All rights reserved Licence No. 100057236 Source: Legend Designations FIGURE 2 Onshore Development Area and Sections derived from ES Figure 6.2 EA1N & EA2 Onshore Development Area Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB Special Protection Area (SPA) Scheduled Monument Designations

Substations & Cable Sealing End Compounds Hundred River Valley Special Site of Special Scientific PROJECT Landscape Area Interest (SSSI) 1080 Permanent Access Road (Substations) Heritage Coast Grade II* Listed East Anglia One North Galloper Substation (Built) CLIENT 0 250 500 1km Ancient Woodland Grade II Listed Substation Action Save East Suffolk ©Crown Copyright All rights reserved Licence No. 100057236 D3

Source: Legend Landscape Designations Suffolk Coastal Landscape Character Types Suffolk Coastal Landscape Character Areas FIGURE 3 LCTs/LCAs: Suffolk Coastal Landscape Character B4: Fromus Valley Assessment, July 2018 EA1N & EA2 Onshore Development Area Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB B. River Valleys Landscape Character D3: Minsmere and Sizewell Coast Substations & Cable Sealing End Compounds Hundred River Valley Special D. Coastal Broads and Marshes PROJECT Landscape Area D4: Thorpness to Aldeburgh 1080 Permanent Access Road (Substations) K. Estate Sandlands K3: Aldringham and Friston Sandlands East Anglia One North Galloper Substation (Built) CLIENT 0 250 500 1km L. Ancient Estate Claylands L1: Heveningham and Knodishall Estate Claylands Substation Action Save East Suffolk ©Crown Copyright All rights reserved Licence No. 100057236 Source: Legend Designations FIGURE 4 Onshore Development Area and Sections derived from ES Figure 6.2 EA1N & EA2 Onshore Development Area (ODA) Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB Additional Corridor

Area of Additional Corridor Required to Reach Onshore Hundred River Valley Special PROJECT Substations and National Grid Infrastructure at Friston Vs Landscape Area Broom Covert (ODA Sections 2-4) (Approx. 92 Hectares) 1080 East Anglia One North Galloper Substation (Built) CLIENT 0 250 500 1km Substation Action Save East Suffolk ©Crown Copyright All rights reserved Licence No. 100057236 FIGURE 5 Fp 9 Substations and NG Infrastructure

Fp 6 PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North Fp 20 11 CLIENT Fp 18 Substation Action Save East Suffolk 3 Fp 16 Fp 17 Fp 8 DATE B April 2020 5 Legend Fp 15 Onshore Development Area for SPR and NG Substations and Infrastructure (SPRNG ODA) Fp 7A D D Preferred Arrangment of Substations & Associated Infrastructure E C Fp 17 A - SPR Substation (preferred location for East Anglia ONE North Onshore Substation) Fp 16 C Bw 1 B B - SPR Substation (preferred location for East A Anglia TWO Onshore Substation) D C - National Grid Substation 14 D - Cable Sealing End Compound E E - Cable Sealing End (with circuit breaker) Fp 17 Compound 8 Fp 6 Permanent Access Roads 1

Fp 7 New pylon

Fp 6 Fp 7 Location of MB Photographs A-E (for photographs refer Figures 12-13) 7 2 4 Bw 2 A Location of LVIA Viewpoints

Fp 25 Fp 23 6 Fp 4 Fp 21 Fp 5

Fp 22

9 13

Fp 13 Fp 30 0 100 200 500 750m

FIGURE 6 First Edition OS (1884)

PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Substation Action Save East Suffolk

DATE April 2020

Legend

Onshore Development Area for SPR and NG Substations and Infrastructure (SPRNG ODA)

0 100 200 500 750m

PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Substation Action Save East Suffolk

DATE April 2020

Legend

Preferred Arrangment of Substations & Associated Infrastructure

Permanent Access Roads

Wider Topography (Bands Drawn at 2m Intervals based on 2m LIDAR Digital Terrain Model)

5m Above Ordnance Datum (AOD)

25m AOD

0 100 200 500 750m

FIGURE 8 Aerial Photograph

PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Substation Action Save East Suffolk

DATE April 2020

Photograph shows the transition from a larger to a finer grained landscape (north to south) in the countryside north of and leading to Friston village.

0 100 200 500 750m

FIGURE 9 Aerial Photograph + Proposal

PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Substation Action Save East Suffolk

5 DATE April 2020

2 2 5 Proposed land use in areas that will not be returned to agricultural use: 6 2 1 - Amenity grass seed mix for embankments & veges. 6 2 - Species rich grassland seed mix. 2 2 3 - SUDS/ Wetland grassland seed mix. 4 2 6 1 4 - Areas for potential future surface water management. 6 2 2 2 2 6 5 - Pre-construction tree/woodland planting 3 1 6 5 6 - Post-construction tree/woodland planting

2 Land outside of the above areas will be returned to 2 6 agricultural use ‘where possible’. 6 6 3 5

5 5

Source: Plan reproduced from Outline Landscape and Ecological Management Strategy (OLEMS) Figure 5: OLMP Illustrative Plan. Proposed land use determined from OLEMS Figure 3: OLMP General Arrangement

0 100 200 500 750m

FIGURE 10 Knodishall CP Constraints & Proposal Harm to distinctive views of Sternfield CP Church on approach to village. PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Severance of public footpath Substation Action Save East Suffolk and removal of historic

approach into village. DATE Ancillary elements imposed April 2020 arbitrarily on landscape framework. National Grid substation imposed Legend Severance of field and arbitrarily on landscape existing landscape pattern; Parish boundary visible from B1121. Removal of part of existing woodland. Local roads

Existing overhead transmission lines and pylons

Local public rights of way network

Statutory

Ancient woodland

Grade II* listed

Grade II listed Access road severs landscape framework and public footpath. MBELC Assessment

Local hedgerow network

Local woodland/wooded areas Destruction of copse established in former pit. Friston - rural village set around village green

Transition from larger to finer grained landscape Loss of distinctive views of north-south towards Friston village (see Figure 8) Church on approach to village. Local ridges

Distinctive views of Friston Church

Copse in pit Substations imposed arbitrarily on landscape Allotments Friston CP framework eroding finer grain landscape which contributes Attractive field (possibly managed as meadow) positively to setting of village. Proposed Development

Preferred Arrangment of Substations & Associated Infrastructure

Preferred Access Roads Substation infrastructure visible as industrial backdrop to village from village green.

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FIGURE 11 Enhanced Mitigation Strategy

PROJECT 1080 East Anglia One North

CLIENT Substation Action Save East Suffolk

DATE September 2020

Legend

Substation Zone (13.4 hectares) Location of all three substations (combined area = 11.71ha with AIS NG Substation or 8.9ha with GIS NG Substation) and cable sealing ends infrastructure if possible (additional 1ha). Total =12.71ha with AIS NG Substation or 9.9ha with GIS NG Substation

Substations and associated infrastructure to be set down below existing ground level.

Screening Zone Retain and strengthen hedgerows and woodlands which provide an existing framework for visual mitigation planting.

Landscape Enhancement Zone

Implement Land Management Guidelines described in Suffolk County Assessment with the intention of providing a long-term legacy of landscape compensation.

0 100 200 500m

FIGURE 12 Photograph A: Looking north towards the site of the proposed substations from the tower of Friston Church FIGURE 13 Photographs B-D: Looking south towards Friston Church from Fp 6

Photograph B Photograph C

Photograph D Photograph E FIGURE 14 Presentation of Figure: 29.21d (Viewpoint 9: B1121 Aldeburgh Road, south of Friston (1st year of operation)) as single frame image at A3

National Grid AIS Substation (1.26km)

East Anglia TWO Substation (1.15km)

East Anglia ONE North Substation (1.05km)

Visual representation of 1st year of operational phase Photomontage of the proposed East Anglia ONE North, East Anglia TWO and National Grid AIS Substation View fl at at a comfortable arm’s length

Contains Ordnance Survey digital data © Crown copyright, All rights reserved 2019 Licence number 0100031673 OS reference: 641458 E 259905 N Horizontal fi eld of view: 53.5° (planar projection) Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Eye level: 17 m AOD Principal viewing distance: 812.5 mm Lens: 50mm (Canon EF 50mm f/1.4) Figure: 29.21d Direction of view: 357° Paper size: 841 x 297 mm (half A1) Camera height: 1.5 m AGL Correct printed image size: 820 x 260 mm Date and time: 22/02/2019, 11:13:33 Viewpoint 9: B1121 Aldeburgh Road, south of Friston FIGURE 15 Presentation of Figure: 29.22d (Viewpoint 10: B1119 Saxmundham Road (1st year of operation)) as single frame image at A3

East Anglia ONE North Substation (1.31km)

East Anglia TWO Substation (1.24km)

National Grid AIS Substation (1.1km)

Visual representation of 1st year of operational phase Photomontage of the proposed East Anglia ONE North, East Anglia TWO and National Grid AIS Substation View fl at at a comfortable arm’s length

Contains Ordnance Survey digital data © Crown copyright, All rights reserved 2019 Licence number 0100031673 OS reference: 641095 E 262490 N Horizontal fi eld of view: 53.5° (planar projection) Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Eye level: 21 m AOD Principal viewing distance: 812.5 mm Lens: 50mm (Canon EF 50mm f/1.4) Figure: 29.22d Direction of view: 167° Paper size: 841 x 297 mm (half A1) Camera height: 1.5 m AGL Correct printed image size: 820 x 260 mm Date and time: 22/02/2019, 15:31:33 Viewpoint 10: B1119 Saxmundham Road

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