Nant Mithil PEDW document finder advice

Nant Mithil PEDW document finder advice

Use CLUe CPRW LOOK-UP expert to find the documents for your NANT MITHIL response to PEDW

Please note: to view APPLICATION DOCUMENTS – you have to download them  – there are no links to particular documents so we can only help you find them on the PEDW website.  The document order has been changing around and is still not user-friendly.  We hope it has settled enough for a useful guide.

CPRW thinks a good, reasoned response on selected topics, or even just one topic, to which you can bring some personal experience, new thoughts or special knowledge, will make the most impression.  Getting key facts right with references to the Application Documents will greatly strengthen your response.

Get going with CLUe  the  CPRW LOOK-UP expert!

  1. Use this link to NANT MITHIL ENERGY PARK  page on the PEDW website.
  2. Scroll down to the  box:

3. Click Clear filter .  Set the filter to Main Party Environmental Statements, click Filter documents and set Show records  to 20, then 13 pages will show at the bottom of the screen.

4. Consult our CLUe spread sheet list of documents to choose a document from the list, note the page number (GOLD box on Right) and how far down the page it is.

5. On PEDW website, click the right page, scroll down to your chosen document and download it.

Follow this LINK to find our CLUe list of documents

  • The start of a PEDW website page at 20 documents /page is in GOLD.
  • Half-way down (where a new 10-document page would begin)  is marked GREY
  • We have marked the Most Useful references in RED and Ecology in BLUE

The Environmental Statement – what is it? This is the key document for the Inspector’s assessment in 4 Volumes. It describes the project and the likely environmental impacts.  The Inspector has to weigh benefits against environmental harm.

Volume 1 Written Statement with numbered Chapters on these individual topics:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Approach to EIA
Chapter 3. Site Selection and Design Strategy
Chapter 4. Project Description
Chapter 5. Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Chapter 6. Historic Environment
Chapter 7. Ecology (non-avian)
Chapter 8. Ornithology
Chapter 9. Noise and Vibration
Chapter 10. Access, Traffic and Transport
Chapter 11. Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Geology (including Peat)
Chapter 12. Aviation
Chapter 13. Shadow Flicker
Chapter 14. Climate Change including Carbon Balance Assessment
Chapter 15. Summary of Interrelated Cumulative Effects and Likely Significant Effects

Volume 2. Figures (diagrams, maps, plans, photos etc). These are numbered according to ES Chapter.  There are a lot in Volume 2 and  – BEWARE – even more tucked away in the Appendices.

Volume 3. Appendices. Numbered according to ES Chapter, usually adequately described in the title.

Volume 4. Visualisations. These all go with Chapter 5 . Landscape and visual impact assessment.

Chapter 5, Landscape and visual Assessment, will be the most important to many people because it deals with VIEWS of the wind farm and the visual impact of the turbines on places and properties and also with the cumulative visual impact with other wind farms.  It is the worst to find your way around with loads of Figures, Appendices and technical language.  As well as the Appendices, there are modelled “wire frame” views and photos.

There are numbered VIEWPOINT places VP1 – 28. Locate these on maps  Figs 5.05a and 5.05b (CLU31 and 33). There is a list of the VIEWPOINTs in Table 5.7 in Chapter 5 of the Environmental Statement.

RVVA or RESIDENTIAL VISUAL AMENITY ASSESSMENTS look at individual properties or groups of properties and show models of the turbine views.  To find a list you need to refer to TABLE A2 Appendix 5.07 (CLU 93) where there are 149 properties.

There are more useful documents below the Environmental Statement documents on our CLUe sheet.

for BUTE DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING THE APPLICATION BUT NOT PART OF THE E. STATEMENT Set the filter to Main Party Submission Documents

for BUTE: SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT (which came late) Set the filter to Submission – Environmental Statement – Appendices

For any other documents – set the filter to All.   Responses from the public and statutory bodies are already coming in beginning around P15 (when viewing at 20 documents /page).