DOCSLIB.ORG

Alwen Forest Wind Farm

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Alwen Forest Wind Farm Alwen Forest Wind Farm Scoping Report 28 June 2018 1171877 Innogy Renewables UK Ltd Document history Author Ffion Edwards, Senior Project Manager 28/06/2018 Checked Lesley Rice, Project Support Officer 04/07/2018 Approved John Woodruff, Head of Projects 03/08/2018 Client Details Contact Jeremy Smith Client Name Innogy Renewables UK Ltd Address Baglan Bay Innovation Centre, Central Avenue, Baglan Energy Park, Port Talbot. SA12 7AX Issue Date Revision Details A 28/06/2018 First Draft to innogy B 05/07/2018 Second Draft issued to NRW C 03/08/2018 Final Scoping Report submitted to PINS NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS LIMITED, THE NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS LIMITED, NATURAL POWER SARL, NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS (IRELAND) LIMITED, NATURAL POWER LLC, NATURAL POWER S.A, NATURAL POWER SERVICES LIMITED AND NATURAL POWER OPERATIONS LIMITED (collectively referred to as “NATURAL POWER”) accept no responsibility or liability for any use which is made of this document other than by the Client for the purpose for which it was originally commissioned and prepared. The Client shall treat all information in the document as confidential. No representation is made regarding the completeness, methodology or current status of any material referred to in this document. All facts and figures are correct at time of print. All rights reserved. VENTOS® is a registered trademark of NATURAL POWER. Melogale™, WindCentre™, ControlCentre™, ForeSite™, vuWind™, WindManager™ and OceanPod™ are trademarks of NATURAL POWER. Copyright © 2018 NATURAL POWER. For full details on our ISO and other certifications, please visit: naturalpower.com/company Local Office: Registered Office: Harbour House The Natural Power Consultants Limited Y Lanfa The Green House Aberystwyth Forrest Estate, Dalry SY23 1AS Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire WALES DG7 3XS UK Tel: +44 (0) 1970 636 869 Reg No: SC177881 VAT No: GB 243 6926 48 Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 1 2. The Proposed Alwen Forest Development ....................................... 2 3. Consultation ...................................................................................... 9 4. Approach to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) ............... 9 What the EIA will Assess ................................................................ 10 Gathering Baseline Information ....................................................... 11 Prediction and Evaluation of Impacts and Effects ........................... 11 5. Legal and Policy Context ................................................................ 13 6. Environmental Statement ................................................................ 14 7. Embedded Mitigation and Further Layout Iterations ....................... 15 8. Purpose of this Scoping Report ...................................................... 15 9. Ecology ........................................................................................... 16 10. Ornithology ...................................................................................... 23 11. Landscape and Visual ..................................................................... 28 Assessment Methodology ............................................................... 30 Cumulative Assessment .................................................................. 34 Residential Visual Amenity .............................................................. 36 12. Hydrology, Geology and Hydrogeology .......................................... 36 13. Cultural Heritage ............................................................................. 45 Environmental Baseline and Potential Sources of Impact .............. 45 Method of Assessment .................................................................... 46 Consultation .................................................................................... 51 Matters Scoped Out ........................................................................ 51 14. Traffic and Transport ....................................................................... 51 Previous Wind Farm Assessments ................................................. 52 15. Noise ............................................................................................... 56 Construction Noise .......................................................................... 60 16. Forestry ........................................................................................... 61 Introduction ..................................................................................... 61 Consultation .................................................................................... 61 Legislation and Guidance ................................................................ 62 Methodology .................................................................................... 62 17. Socio-Economics ............................................................................ 63 Introduction ..................................................................................... 63 Methodology .................................................................................... 63 18. Health and Public Safety ................................................................. 64 Shadow Flicker ................................................................................ 64 Ice Throw ........................................................................................ 64 Lightning .......................................................................................... 65 Health & Safety ............................................................................... 65 Impact Assessment ......................................................................... 65 19. Aviation and Existing Infrastructure ................................................. 66 Other Existing Infrastructure ........................................................... 69 Alwen Forest Wind Farm 20. Summary, Residual and Synergistic Effects and Mitigation ............ 70 21. ES Accompanying documentation .................................................. 70 22. Responding to the Scoping Report ................................................. 71 Appendix A: Proposed Turbine co-ordinates ............................................ 72 Appendix B: Consultation Meeting Notes ................................................. 73 List of Figures Figure 2.1: Regional Context Figure 2.2: Preliminary Site Layout Figure 2.3: Site Constraints Figure 9.1: Statutory Designated Sites Figure 10.1: Vantage Point Locations and Viewsheds (canopy height) Figure 11.1: Zone of Theoretical Visibility to Turbine Tip (200 m) to 45 km Figure 11.2: Zone of Theoretical Visibility to Turbine Tip (200 m) to 15 km Figure 11.3: Cumulative Wind Farms Figure 13.1a: Designated Sites, Monuments and Designed Landscapes Figure 13.1b: Designated Sites, Built Heritage Figure 13.2: Denbigh Moors Character Areas Figure 13.3: Non-designated heritage assets (CPAT HER data) Alwen Forest Wind Farm 1. Introduction 1.1.1. This Scoping Report has been prepared by Natural Power Consultants Limited (Natural Power) on behalf of Innogy Renewables UK (innogy) in anticipation of an application for a Development of National Significance (DNS) for a wind farm development located approximately 4 km north of Cerrigydrudion within Conwy County Borough Council (CCBC) and Denbighshire County Council (DCC). This scoping request is made in relation to a Development of National Significance for the purposes of section 62D of the 1990 Act. 1.1.2. Under the statutory procedures set out in The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (EIA Regulations) it is proposed that any such application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement (ES). 1.1.3. The purpose of this Scoping Report is to provide sufficient information for consultees to agree the scope of the ES. Information has been provided on what the applicant intends to assess within the ES. When the applicant is proposing to ‘scope out’ particular elements sufficient information and justification has been provided in this report. The intention is to ensure the focus in the ES is on any receptors impacted by the proposed development that may experience significant effects. 1.1.4. Consultees will note that the Scoping Report contains a number of questions, which it would be useful to receive a response on. Not all questions will be relevant to all consultees; therefore we request that consultees provide feedback only on those questions appropriate to them. The questions should not be considered an exhaustive list, and consequently, consultees are invited to provide further responses on any issue they consider relevant to the proposed development. If consultees elect not to respond, innogy will assume that consultees are satisfied with the approach adopted/proposed. The Applicant 1.1.5. The applicant, Innogy Renewables UK Limited (innogy), develops, builds and operates projects to generate power and extract energy from renewable sources. It is part of Innogy SE; an established European energy company which was formed from the restructuring of the RWE Group and started operations on 1 April 2016. innogy firmly believes in making our planet a better place. innogy has eight offices across the UK and operates more than 1 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity. In the UK, innogy currently operates 18 onshore wind farms, 3 offshore wind farms and 24 hydro sites.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • RUNNER's “Alaska 2003 World WORLD Trophy Winning Shoe” PRODUCT of the YEAR 2003
    , PB TRAINER - £55.00 £ _ .... The perfect off road shoe ideal for fell running, V ^ , orienteering and cross-country. The outsoie is the Walsh pyramid type, which has a reputation \ PB XTREME - £60.00 l worldwide for its unbeatable grip and a 14mm »\(SIZES 3-13 INC Vs SIZES) K m'ciso^e for extra cushioning. ^ \ Same high specification as PB Trainer but U upper constructed in ^ exclusive use of \ lightweight tear resistant xymid material to give 1 cross weave nylon, for tm | additional’support, J unbeatable strength. For I protection and additional support and durability to the toe, ^^^protection velon has been ^ ^ ^ h e e l and instep. Excellent v . Tadded around the toe, heel and • ’’“ to r more aggressive terrain. t| -J mstep. Manufactured on specially designed lasts to give that perfect fit. An ideal all-round training or race shoe. JNR PB TRAINER - £40.00 (SIZES 1, 2, 3 and 31/s) PB RACER - £55.00 (SIZES 3-13 INC Va SIZES) Same high specification as PB Trainer except A lightweight pure racing shoe ideal for fell k with a 100mm lightweight midsole and made \ racing, orienteering and cross-country. Similar V ^ p » ^ » ^ o n the junior PB last. Excellent to the PB Trainer except with lighter ^ ^ "" ^ ^ sta rte r for all junior ^ * " T Bl^ ^ * w .w eish t materials 10mm ‘ * \enthusiasts. I midsole and constructed I on a last developed for j performance racing to give -X that track shoe feei. ^ ^ ^ ^ S u p e r b pure racing shoe for j jjwnite performance 1 SWOOP ) WAS £60.00 J NOW £40.00 SWOOP 2 - £60.00 /// (SIZES 10, 101/a, 11 and '(SIZES 4-12 INC 121/a) 1/2 SIZES) ^ ■ ^ w F ell running shoe for the Serious off-road racer and | jlk e e n fellrunner.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Knowledge and Landscape in Wind Energy Planning
    Knowledge and landscape in wind energy planning Maria Lee* ‘Landscape’ is relatively underexplored in legal scholarship,1 notwithstanding its occasional centrality to legal analysis, and the ways in which law contributes to the shaping of landscape.2 Landscape is also intriguing from the perspective of one of the key preoccupations of environmental lawyers, exposing starkly the perennial tension between expert and lay discourses: whilst intuitively open to lay intervention, diverse values, and local experiences of the world, landscape is simultaneously subjected to highly technical, expert-based discourses and assessments. This makes landscape a promising area in which to explore ideas of knowledge in law. Most of the legal literature on ‘knowledge’ focuses on the ways in which different ‘expert’ knowledges find their way into, and then shape, legal processes and decisions. In this paper, I am more concerned with the ways in which the planning system, and planning law, receives different knowledge claims, and accepts some of them as things we ‘know’ about the world for the purposes of reason giving. Although the planning system does not ‘find facts’, planning, like other areas of law, inevitably both shapes and is based on an inextricable combination of facts and values. Wind energy is an especially fruitful area for the exploration of landscape, since wind farms consistently raise concerns about landscape and seascape. In this paper, I explore knowledge claims on landscape within the context of applications for development consent for large wind farms, those which fall within the criteria for a ‘nationally significant infrastructure project’ (NSIP) under the Planning Act 2008.3 My discussion turns around four tentative categories of knowledge claim, categories that are not fixed or easily separated, and are irretrievably mixed with other (non-knowledge) types of claim; even their description as ‘knowledge’ may be contested.
    [Show full text]
  • Aug. 19O 5, 29. on the GEOLOGY of ARENIG FAWR A~*D MOEL L~.Y:F
    Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of California-San Diego on January 17, 2016 608 ~ta. w. ~. F~An~SrD~S 0.~ Tr~E Gv.O~0OY oF [Aug. 19o 5, 29. On the GEOLOGY of ARENIG FAWR a~*d MOEL L~.Y:F~A:Sr. By WILLIAm1 GEOR6E FEARNSlDES,M.A., F.G.S., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. (Read January 18th, 1905.) [P~w. XLI--MAP.] l. INTRODUCTION. T~ mountains known as Arenig Fawr and Moel Llyfnant are situated somewhat to the north of the centre of the county of Merioneth, and lie immediately east of the main water-parting of Wales. The area studied lies wholly within the quarter-sheets 13 S.E., 13 S.W., 21 IN.E, & 21 I~.W. of the 6-inch Ordnance- Survey maps of Merionethshire. Rising from a plateau some 800 to 1200 feet high, they attain heights of 2800 and 2437 feet respectively, and, being entirely above the cultivation-zone, are practically uninhabited. The Great Western ]3ala-Ffestiniog Railway crosses the northern end of the district, to which Arenig Station, close under the northern slopes of Arenig Fawr, affords easy access. Although to a certain extent glaciated, the mountains are swept clean rather than Drift-covered, and it is only in the lower ground that moraines become inconveniently abundant. The adaptation of surface-forms to rock-structures is exceedingly complete, and few are the places where the ribs of harder rocks do not protrude through the scanty soil or turf. Being open to the full blast of the westerly and south-westerly gales from the ocean, the district, receives its full share of weather ; and, in consequence, ahhough the eastern slopes are often grass- or heather-covered, the steeper parts of the western slopes are rugged and bare, and afford magnificent exposures of the component rocks.
    [Show full text]
  • Alwen Forest Wind Farm Grid Connection
    Alwen Forest Wind Farm Grid Connection Scoping Report Ffon 19 November 2019 1204855 Innogy Renewables UK Ltd Document history Author Janet Sanders, Project Manager 27.09.19 Checked Ffion Edwards, Senior Project 27.09.19 Manager Approved John Woodruff, Technical 30.09.19 Director Client Details Contact Martin Cole Client Name Innogy Renewables UK Ltd Address Baglan Bay Innovation Centre, Central Avenue, Baglan Energy Park, Port Talbot SA12 7AX Issue Date Revision Details A 30.08.19 First revision of scoping report B 30.09.19 First Draft to innogy C 17.10.19 Second revision to innogy D 24.10.19 Submission to NRW and WW E 19.11.19 Final submission to PINS NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS LIMITED, THE NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS LIMITED, NATURAL POWER SARL, NATURAL POWER CONSULTANTS (IRELAND) LIMITED, NATURAL POWER LLC, NATURAL POWER S.A, NATURAL POWER SERVICES LIMITED AND NATURAL POWER OPERATIONS LIMITED (collectively referred to as “NATURAL POWER”) accept no responsibility or liability for any use which is made of this document other than by the Client for the purpose for which it was originally commissioned and prepared. The Client shall treat all information in the document as confidential. No representation is made regarding the completeness, methodology or current status of any material referred to in this document. All facts and figures are correct at time of print. All rights reserved. VENTOS® is a registered trademark of NATURAL POWER. Melogale™, WindCentre™, ControlCentre™, ForeSite™, vuWind™, WindManager™ and OceanPod™ are trademarks of NATURAL POWER. Copyright © 2019 NATURAL POWER. For full details on our ISO and other certifications, please visit: naturalpower.com/company Local Office: Registered Office: Harbour House The Natural Power Consultants Limited Y Lanfa The Green House Aberystwyth Forrest Estate, Dalry SY23 1AS Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire WALES DG7 3XS UK Tel: +44 (0) 1970 636 869 Reg No: SC177881 VAT No: GB 243 6926 48 Contents 1.
    [Show full text]
  • G2412 Front Cover
    1446 Llyn Bran, Gwynedd Archaeological Assessment Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Gwynedd Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Llyn Bran, Gwynedd Archaeological Assessment Historic Environment Record Event Primary Reference Number E6412 Prosiect Rhif / Project No. G2573 Adroddiad Rhif / Report No.1446 Prepared for: Stillwater Associates Limited October 2018 Written by: Robert Evans & John Roberts Front cover image: General view of the reservoir looking northwards from the dam wall (archive reference: G2580_006) Cyhoeddwyd gan Ymddiriedolaeth Achaeolegol Gwynedd Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Gwynedd Craig Beuno, Ffordd y Garth, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2RT Published by Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Craig Beuno, Garth Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2RT Cadeiryddes/Chair - Yr Athro/Professor Nancy Edwards, B.A., PhD, F.S.A. Prif Archaeolegydd/Chief Archaeologist - Andrew Davidson, B.A., M.I.F.A. Mae Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Gwynedd yn Gwmni Cyfyngedig (Ref Cof. 1180515) ac yn Elusen (Rhif Cof. 508849) Gwynedd Archaeological Trust is both a Limited Company (Reg No. 1180515) and a Charity (reg No. 508849) CONTENTS Crynodeb Annhechnegol .............................................................................................................................. 4 Non-Technical summary ................................................................................................................................ 5 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Alwen Forest Wind Farm, Conwy/Denbighshire
    230000 240000 250000 260000 270000 280000 290000 300000 310000 320000 330000 340000 0 0 0 Projec t: 0 0 4 Alwen Forest Wind Farm, Conwy/Denbighshire Title: 0 0 Figure 11.1: Zone of Theoretical 0 0 9 3 Visibility to Turbine Tip (200m) to 45km Key Site b ound ary 0 0 0 0 8 . Viewp oint loc ation 3 ! Prop osed turb ine layout 5km intervals from outerm ost turb ines 0 0 45km from outerm ost turb ines 0 0 7 3 Clwyd ian W ay Regional Trail O ffa's Dyke National Trail . VP13 Sp ec ial Land sc ap e Area 0 0 0 0 Area of O utstand ing Natural Beauty 6 3 . VP3 VP5 . VP6 Snowd onia National Park ! ! ! ! ! VP15 VP14 ! . VP2 Theoretical turbine visibility . ! ! VP4 ! . VP1 VP9 1-3 Turb ines are visib le 0 . 0 VP8 0 . 0 5 4-6 Turb ines are visib le 3 . VP7 5km . VP12 7-9 Turb ines are visib le . VP10 10km . VP11 0 0 0 0 4 3 Scale @ A3:1:360,000 15km Coord inate System : British National Grid © Crown c op yright and d atab ase rights 2018 O rd nanc e Survey 0100031673, 100019265. 0 2.5 5 10 km 20km 0 ¯ 0 0 0 3 3 Date: 03-08-18 Prep ared b y: EL Chec ked b y: LC 25km Ref: Viewpoints: 8: Rhyd lyd an Drawing b y: 30km LUC 1: Alwen Dam 9: Craig Bronb anog 28 Stafford Street 0 0 Ed inb urgh 0 0 2: Llyn Brenig Visitor Centre 10: Footp ath ab ove Cad air Benllyn 2 Notes 3 The ZTV is c alc ulated to turb ine tip height (200m ) 3: A543 near Sp ortsm an’s Arm s 11: Foel Goc h (Arenigs) from a viewing height of 2m ab ove ground level.
    [Show full text]
  • Llyn Tegid Reservoir Safety Improvements Flood Consequence
    Llyn Tegid Reservoir Safety Improvements Flood Consequence Assessment Version No: Revision 1 Date: 06/12/19 Tegid Safety FCA 1 Version control Version Drafted by: Checked by: Date signed Date issued Rev 1 Matt Jenkins Laura Cotton 06/12/19 06/12/19 Iwan Huws Tegid Safety FCA 2 Contents 1. Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 4 2. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 4 3. Background ..................................................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Bala Lake Scheme and Dee Regulation ................................................................................... 5 3.2 Previous Studies ...................................................................................................................... 5 4. Flood Consequence Assessment ..................................................................................................... 8 5. Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 10 6. Appendices .................................................................................................................................... 11 6.1 Llyn Tegid Development – TAN15 Development Layers ....................................................... 12 6.2
    [Show full text]
  • National Landscape Character NLCA10 DENBIGH MOORS Mynydd Hiraethog – Disgrifiad Cryno
    National Landscape Character 31/03/2014 NLCA10 DENBIGH MOORS © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 100019741 Mynydd Hiraethog – Disgrifiad cryno Yn dirwedd anial ond deniadol ei golygfeydd, mae Mynydd Hiraethog yn llwyfandir o weunydd tonnog, graddol yng nghanol gogledd Cymru, rhwng Eryri yn y gorllewin, a dyffryn Clwyd yn y dwyrain. Plannwyd coed ar rannau helaeth ohono, ond ym mannau eraill ceir gorgorsydd eang, rhostiroedd grugog ac amrywiaeth sylweddol o safleoedd archeolegol yn dyddio o’r cyfnod cynhanesyddol ymlaen. Er mai prin fu’r boblogaeth yn y gorffennol y gwyddom amdano, bu llawer o weithgaredd dynol. Bu amaethu, coedwigo, hela, ac adeiladu a chynnal rhwydweithiau casglu a chronni dŵr eang ym mlaenau Aled, sydd wedyn yn llifo i Elwy, ac yna i Glwyd: ac ar Alwen a Brenig, sy’n llifo i Ddyfrdwy. www.naturalresources.wales NLCA10 Denbigh Moors - Page 1 of 6 Mae’n ardal boblogaidd ar gyfer gweithgareddau awyr agored, yn enwedig yng nghyffiniau Canolfan Ymwelwyr a Chronfa Brenig: a sefydlwyd llwybr archeolegol ym mhen gogleddol y gronfa. Sefydlwyd datblygiadau tyrbinau gwynt yno’n ddiweddar, hefyd. Mae lôn bost Thomas Telford, yr A5 bresennol, yn mynd trwy’r fro, ac yn cyrraedd ei man ail uchaf rhwng Llundain a Chaergybi yn ymyl Cerrigydrudion. Gwahana gweundir a choetir Mynydd Hiraethog yn y gogledd-ddwyrain rhag tir amaeth brasach cyffiniau Llangwm. Mae clasur Hugh Evans, “Cwm Eithin” (sef Cwm Main) yn darlunio’n gyfareddol fywyd ac arferion y fro hon ganol y 19eg ganrif. Summary description A desolate but scenically attractive landscape, comprising a gently undulating upland moorland plateau in central North Wales, situated between Snowdonia to the west and the Vale of Clwyd to the east.
    [Show full text]
  • MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM LOG BOOK from 22Nd OCTOBER 58
    MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM LOG BOOK FROM 22nd OCTOBER 58 TO 27th MARCH 60 1 NOTES 1 This Diary was transcribed by Dr. A. S. G. Jones between February and July, 2014 2 He has attempted to follow, as closely as possible, the lay-out of the actual entries in the Diary. 3 The first entry in this diary is dated 22nd October 1958. The last entry is dated 27th March, 1960 4 There is considerable variation in spellings. He has attempted to follow the actual spelling in the Diary even where the Spell Checker has highlighted a word as incorrect. 5 The spelling of place names is a very variable feast as is the use of initial capital letters. He has attempted to follow the actual spellings in the Diary 6 Where there is uncertainty as to a word, its has been shown in italics 7 Where words or parts of words have been crossed out (corrected) they are shown with a strike through. 8 The diary is in a S.O.Book 445. 9 It was apparent that the entries were written by number of different people 10 Sincere thanks to Alister Haveron for a detailed proof reading of the text. Any mistakes are the fault of Dr. A. S. G. Jones. 2 INDEX of CALL OUTS to CRASHED AIRCRAFT Date Time Group & Place Height Map Ref Aircraft Time missing Remarks Pages Month Type finding November 58 101500Z N of Snowdon ? ? ? False alarm 8 May 1959 191230Z Tal y Fan 1900' 721722 Anson 18 hrs 76 INDEX of CALL OUTS to CIVILIAN CLIMBING ACCIDENTS Date Time Group & Place Map Time Names Remarks Pages Month reference spent 1958 November 020745Z Clogwyn du'r Arddu 7 hrs Bryan MAYES benighted 4 Jill SUTTON
    [Show full text]
  • A Contribution to a Flora of Merioneth
    A Contribution to a Flora of Merioneth by PETER BENOIT and MARY RICHARDS 2nd Edition (H A Contribution to a Flora of Merioneth ", in Nature in Wales, 7, 44-66, 92-111 and 146-166 (1961), revised and printed as a separate volume.) Haverfordwest : West Wales Naturalists' Trust 1963 '5 6 7 8 9 '0r4 I '2. 35 j I I 1 / i 1 <i"""1 1 I'S S6-. ~S- ' «,~ i 4 31 HA~~-I~,_1"J; 3 \JV Ty .... y-!)~ 1 f- u",..",ni 2 ,~~A~ P..-RT.do:lU ;) -~ ~... , \ ill- "~{/ \Jf. j) , '\, f MERLO ..ET>I on .. J ..... r of Wl\I..ES r< o \'AJlrJ~ -':;:' MONT(;OltlERYStllRE MAP OF MERJONETH 'OIR~~~~ I '0 02.468MllES 1 I! i l' J \ • I , 02.+681012~S. , loa l\-~"'"'i'" (I I I I, 9 9"5 G 7 8 9 '0 '2 A CONTRIBUTION TO A FLORA OF MERIONETH INTRQDQOTION Merioneth has long been a favourite hunting ground of botanists, and numerous notes and plant lists have as a result been published; 'a valuable historical account of the botanical exploraM tion of the county, by P. W. Carter, appeared in 1955*. Yet Merioneth has neVer had a published Flora. About the end of the last century Daniel Angell Jones (1861-1936), of Machynlleth and Harlech, compiled a manuscript Flora which is now in the National Museum of Wales. But in later life, it seems, he rather neglected the higher plants for bryophytes, on which he became an authority. In sixty years, British plant geography has progressed from infancy to maturity, and much work has been done in Merioneth ; ecology and cytology have been born, and opinions of the taxonomic status of many plants have changed in the light of experimental work.
    [Show full text]
  • Explanatory Memorandum T
    RAMPION 2 OFFSHORE WIND FARM RAMPION 2 OFFSHORE WIND FARM ORDER _______________________________________ EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM THE PLANNING ACT 2008 THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (APPLICATIONS: PRESCRIBED FORMS AND PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS 2009 _______________________________________ REGULATION 5(2)(c) 1. Introduction 1.1 This Explanatory Memorandum has been prepared on behalf of Rampion Extension Development Limited (“the Applicant”) to explain the purpose and effect of each article of and Schedule to the draft Rampion 2 Offshore Windfarm Order (“Order”). It forms part of the application (“Application”) for a Development Consent Order ('DCO'), that has been submitted to the Secretary of State (the 'SoS') for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, under section 37 of the Planning Act 2008 (the '2008 Act'). 1.2 The Applicant is seeking development consent for an offshore generating station and all infrastructure required to transmit the power generated to the existing Bolney National Grid substation (the 'Authorised Project'). It will comprise a maximum of 116 wind turbine generators. The Authorised Project array area is approximately 270km2, and is located approximately 13km off the Sussex coast in the south of England. A detailed description of the Proposed Development is set out in the Environmental Statement submitted with the Application (Application document xx) 1.3 As the Order seeks to apply and modify statutory provisions, including concerning the compulsory acquisition of land and the treatment of certain requirements as planning conditions, in accordance with sections 117(4) and 120(5) of the Planning Act 2008 (2008 Act), it has been drafted as a statutory instrument. 1.4 It is anticipated that subject to the DCO having been made by the SoS, construction work on the Authorised Project would commence in [20xx].The construction phase would be for a period of up to 4 years.
    [Show full text]
  • Llyn Tegid Dual Pumping Scheme
    NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY AWDURDOD AFONYDD CENEDLAETHOL Welsh Region LLYN TEGID DUAL PUMPING SCHEME PRELIMINARY STUDY REPORT JANUARY 1996 NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY BINNIE BLACK & VEATCH Welsh Region 25 Newgate Street Ffordd Penlan Chester Parc Menai CHI IDE Bangor Gwynedd LL57 4BP LLYN TEG ID DUAL PUMPING SCHEME - - - -— ^ “ (CONTENTS Scction Page No. Executive Summary 1 1 Introduction 7 2 Background 7 3 Scope of Works 8 4 Assumptions and Constraints 9 5 Investigation and Surveys 10 6 Scheme Objectives 11 7 Low Lift Pumping Arrangement 11 8 Llyn Tegid Intake for High Lift Scheme 13 9 High Lift Pumping Station 13 10 Pipeline , l 6 11 Llyn Celyn Inlet 22 12 Land Availability and Planning 23 13 Cost Estimates and Deliveries 23 14 Implementation 25 APPENDICES A Costs B Programme DRAWINGS 5099/GJEI .TPS.RO 1 (i) 19 January 1996 LLYN TEGID DUAL PUMPING SCHEME EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . =. ' 1 Introduction 1.1 This report was prepared by Binnie Black & Veatch in response to a request from the National Rivers Authority (NRA), Welsh Region to study the feasibility of pumping water from Llyn Tcgid to Llyn Celyn and to the river Dee. 2 Background 2.1 The NRA operates the River Dee Regulation Scheme and is a leading member of the River Dee Consultative Committee. Other members of the committee represent the main water abstractors, namely: North West Water Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wrexham Water Co Chester Water Co, and British Waterways Board 2.2 The three major reservoirs of Alwen, Brenig and Celyn, constructed as new storage, are relatively large for their catchment areas with the result that filling is not assured during years of less than average rainfall.
    [Show full text]