2020-02-11 P&E Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 2 - MCU18-0166 - Visual Impact Assessment

T ABLE 2.1 - V ISUAL SENSITIVITY LEVELS                   T ABLE 2.3 – V ISUAL IMPACT LEVELS

 Visual                                                                                              Sensitivity
 sensitivity   Description                                                              Neighbou-
 level                                                                                                  Local      Regional
                                                                                          rhood
               Views where visual amenity is important
                                                                                        Moderate        High         High
               at a neighbourhood scale, such as views                   High
 Neighbour                                                                               adverse       adverse      adverse
               seen from local roads, briefly glimpsed
 hood
               views to landscape features, and views                                     Minor       Moderate       High
               from small groups of residences.                          Medium
                                                                                         adverse       adverse      adverse




                                                          Modification
               View of high quality or experienced by                                     Minor         Minor      Moderate
                                                                         Low
               concentrations of residents and/or local                                  adverse       adverse      adverse
 Local
               recreational users, and/or large                          No perceived
               numbers of road or rail users.                                           Negligible    Negligible   Negligible
                                                                         change
               Heavily experienced view to a feature or                                  Minor        Moderate       High
                                                                         Improvement
               landscape that is iconic to a major                                       benefit       benefit      benefit
 Regional      portion of a city or a non-metropolitan
               region, or an important view from an
               area of regional open space.               2.3.                  Assessment verification
                                                          A crane was placed on the proposal site and
A number of principles have been identified that          raised to a height of 25 metres.
relate to how well a telecommunications tower
                                                          While the crane was in place, photographs were
can be absorbed into the landscape and what is
                                                          taken from a range of representative viewpoint
considered to be more or less visually
                                                          locations. These photographs have been used in
harmonious. The principles that will be applied
                                                          this report to assist in illustrating the location
generally to the viewpoint assessment, are                and height of the monopole.
summarised in Table 2-2 Typical Indictors of
Visual Modification.

Visual impact is the combined result of
sensitivity together with the level of
modification. The visual impact may be adverse
or beneficial and at a level of very high through
to negligible. (refer table 2.3)




                                                          Crane located at the proposal site




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