A huge offshore wind farm planned for the Bristol Channel is likely to cause "significant" landscape effects for a very limited section of Gower, the company behind it said.

RWE npower renewables made the comment in its draft environmental statement for the Atlantic Array scheme.

But it added there was little evidence to conclusively prove a link between the character of a landscape and visitor behaviour.

The company said previous visitor and business surveys about wind farms' impact on tourism "largely indicated that the effect upon tourism is neutral or positive". RWE is the parent company of Channel Energy Ltd, which wants to... [continue via Web link]