Wind farm works obscured after land restoration

An aerial inspection of Rampion wind farm's onshore underground cable route has said that evidence of the construction work has "almost completely disappeared from view" after "successful reinstatement of the land".

The 27km (16.7mile) cable route makes landfall under the beach at Brooklands Pleasure Park in Worthing and follows a course under the railway, the A27 and the River Adur.

It then heads northeast past the Old Cement Works, across the South Downs and the Weald up to the final connection point at a new substation next to Bolney National Grid Substation in Mid Sussex.

Rampion's cable route reinstatement was completed in 2019.

The project is now halfway through a 10-year monitoring and management plan, meaning the land will continue to be monitored every year until 2029 with additional planting and seeding undertaken if required.

"We are thrilled to see how successful the reinstatement of land on the Rampion cable route has been," said general manager Dan Allen-Baines.

Footage of the aerial investigation and its findings was recently published on the company's Rampion 2 website.

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, gave consent for the Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm in April.

Plans for Rampion 2 claim it could power the equivalent of over one million homes and reduce carbon emissions by around 1.8 million tonnes per year.

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