Orsted speak on visual impact of Isle of Man windfarm plans

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00:00What can people in simple terms expect to see as part of this development?

00:06Yeah, so we've done a lot of work to model the visual impact.

00:10As John explained earlier, we've looked at what's the maximum design that we could have.

00:16It's maximum 100 turbines and there's a maximum turbine height that we are proposing in our application.

00:24So we've modelled that and we've done some pretty comprehensive visuals,

00:30which if you've been along to the community consultations you'll have seen.

00:36I think they're available online as well.

00:38Harder perhaps to see, but very much available for people to see.

00:42So you can see what it's likely to look like and I think, just to reassure people,

00:47we've done these visual models before and of course we can now go back with our photographs

00:52and stand on the beach and say, well does it really look like what we thought?

00:56And actually it does.

00:57And so we've refined our techniques and I think it's fair to say within the uncertainties that we have,

01:02I think they're pretty accurate representation of the visual impact.

01:06And of course people are fully entitled and I think absolutely understandable people will raise these concerns.

01:12I'd urge people to have a look and see what the reality is likely to be.

01:16We're not saying there isn't a visual impact, of course there is.

01:20And that's why we're running the consultation, because we want to hear people's opinions

01:24and hear how they're feeling about this.

01:27So you'd encourage people to come along and have a look themselves really at,

01:32either online or to one of these engagement days before possibly forming an opinion on it?

01:38Yeah, absolutely.

01:39And then please give us feedback.

01:41We really do need to hear from everybody.

01:44We can capture all of that, we can provide responses in our consultation response.

01:49And that means we're in the best possible place to move forward in a way that reflects the voices that we've heard.