Environmental Impact Assessment

A key part of the design process is to ensure that the potential impact of an expansion of the wind farm on the natural environment and surrounding communities is fully understood. That’s why a wide range of assessments are being undertaken involving extensive surveys and studies, guided by Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations.

The findings of the assessments will inform the design and development proposals. The assessments of the final proposals will be collated into an Environmental Statement (ES) and submitted with the application for development consent. Stakeholders, including statutory consultees, will consider the application and ES before providing a formal response to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC).

The EIA/ES will include assessment of the following topics:

Landscape and Visual
Cultural Heritage
Ecology
Ornithology
Noise
Traffic and Transport
Water environment
Ground conditions and Geology
Aviation
Telecommunications
Shadow flicker
Socio-economic impacts

Peel Energy is currently undertaking an environmental scoping exercise to agree with the IPC and statutory consultees which topics need to be included in the EIA. The Environmental Scoping report will be added to the Document library.