An aerial inspection of Rampion Offshore Wind Farm’s underground onshore cable route has revealed that evidence of the temporary construction has almost completely disappeared from view, thanks to the successful reinstatement of the land it passes through.

The 27-kilometre Rampion cable route makes landfall under the beach at Brooklands Pleasure Park in Worthing and follows a course beneath 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, and 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.

The Rampion cable route is entirely underground and the overhead lines and pylons shown in the video footage are all connected to other power stations or grid networks unrelated to the Rampion Wind Farm.

During the Rampion 2 consultations, many people asked why the existing Rampion cables were not being used. This is because they do not have the capacity to accommodate three times more power from Rampion 2 to connect the project to the transmission network.