LATE RFI Attachment 3 - Visual Impact Assessment

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                              Visual Assessment Statement: Car Wash, and Food and Drink Outlet 34 Elm St., Cooroy, QLD




     4 VISUAL IMPACTS AND CONTEXTUAL
       CHANGE
61   This report is concerned with the changes the proposed development’s visual impacts will
     have upon the existing character and amenity of the Site’s surrounding urban environment.
     These changes are typically experienced by Sensitive Receptors across a spectrum of
     environmental scale.


62   The term ‘Sensitive Receptors’ (Receptors), refers to the people that experience the urban
     environment and who are most likely to be sensitive to changes to it. The spectrum of
     environmental scale is typically structured by the relationship of elements within the
     streetscape context, the neighbourhood context, and the citywide context.

63   The change that a new development has upon the urban environment has different effects in
     relation to each of these contexts having regard to:
        a) The sensitivity of receptors to change.
        b) The existing context as a receiving environment of change and its sensitivity to
            accommodate change.
        c) The magnitude of change that a new development has upon the existing context.
        d) How a new development’s attributes militate the effects of the change.
        e) What the potential residual effects of the change are.


64   When assessing the sensitivity of Receptors, consideration is given to the following:
        a) Sensitivity will vary between individuals for a multitude of subjective reasons, including
            sensory acuteness, cultural and lifestyle preferences, duration of experience within the
            context, history, and the attributes of their own architectural space.
        b) The reasonable expectations for change to the context based upon recent change and
            the potential for further change due to planning scheme intents for the context.


     4.1 Sensitivity to Change
     4.1.1 The Receiving Environment
     The Streetscape Context
65   The existing neighbouring streetscapes are discussed above at s2.2. These observations
     show the existing streetscapes neighbouring the Site to be highly discordant. The service
     stations along Elm Street both have a perfunctory appearance and contribute no material



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