Operating licence for Sandskeið Line 1

At its meeting on 21 June, the Hafnarfjörður Town Council approved a construction permit for Landsnet hf. for the Sandskeið Line 1, 220/400 kV high-voltage line project (also known as Lyklafell Line 1). Specifically, this concerns a high-voltage line planned to be erected between the substations at Sandskeið and in Hafnarfjörður, and named the Sandskeið Line 1. According to the application, it is considered necessary to undertake the said project and erect a new high-voltage line to carry out energy transmission to Hafnarfjörður, in place of Hamranes lines 1 and 2, which will be decommissioned and dismantled after Sandskeiðslína 1 has been put into service.

The project is described in the application for a development permit and its supporting documents, and the permit is granted on the basis of these in accordance with the Regulations on Development Permits No. 772/2012. An environmental assessment report for the project and the opinion of the Planning Authority on the project's environmental impact are available and can be found below.

The decision to issue the implementation permit was published in the Law Gazette on 3 July. In accordance with Article 4 of Act No. 130/2011 on the Environmental and Natural Resources Appeals Board, attention is drawn to the fact that those who have legitimate interests to protect, as well as the environment- and outdoor recreation organisations with at least 30 members, provided that the purpose of the organisation is to protect the interests concerned by the appeal, may appeal the granting of the licence to the Environmental and Resource Appeals Board within one month of the advertisement's publication, at Skuggasund 3, 101 Reykjavík. For further details, see the commission's website at uua.is. Accordingly, the deadline for appeal is 3 August. 

See the planning permission here

Attached documents and reports can be found below:

• Report on moss damage at the Hellisheiði Power Station – February 2009
• Report on zinc plating on iron
• Preliminary research into vegetation damage at high-voltage pylons in the Southwest
• Decision on the joint assessment – Southwest Lines
• Water protection risk assessment for Sandskeið Line 1 and the Sandskeið substation
• Changes to the transport system – planned projects 2017-2019
• South-West Lines, Photo and Map Booklet
• Part 5 – Model Pictures
• Part 4 – Visibility map
• Part 3 – theme maps
• Part 2 – aerial map
• Part 1 – overview map
• Appendix 8 – comments and observations on the draft assessment report
• Appendix 7 – Acoustics, Electrical and Magnetic Fields
• Appendix 6 – earth cables and overhead lines
• Appendix 4 – Tourism and Outdoor Recreation
• Appendix 3 – Geology and landforms
• Appendix 2 – preliminary investigations into crop damage
• Appendix 1 – Birds and vegetation
• Appendix
• Southwest Lines – Assessment Report
• The Planning Authority's opinion on the environmental impact assessment