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Landscape and Visual Assessment Report SEPTEMBER 2003

 

 

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Terrain Consultants have been engaged to prepare a landscape and visual impact
assessment report addressing a proposed development by Petrac Land Holdings Pty Ltd for
(Lot 7 on RP844337), a 70 ha site located on the Noosa North Shore on Maximillian Road
and Beach Road opposite Noosa North Shore Retreat.
Landscape assessment of the site has been undertaken according to the parameters of
landform types, visibility and landscape characier types, within the contextual characteristics
of the subject site within the Noosa North Shore landscape. The likely landscape and visual
impacts of the proposed development have then been evaluated in terms of the assessment
of the site and its significance in its current condition.
2.6 NOOSA NORTH SHORE LANDSCAPE
(Refer Figure 1 - Noosa North Shore Site Context Plan)
2.4 LANDFORM
The North Shore supports a range of various landform types; the beach and frontal
dune system of Laguna Bay form a defined edge to the east, the Noosa River and
Lake Cooroibah define the southern and western edges, the low lying alluvial plains
and coastal heath plains behind the dunail system and the more elevated woodland
hills which define the network of drainage channels through the landscape.
2.2 LAND COVER AND VEGETATION
Most of the North Shore area is covered in natural vegetation or regenerating
vegetation cn previously cleared sites. Due to the variation in the landform
throughout the area the landscape vegetation communities also vary considerably.
Vegetation communities typically range from frontal dune vegetation along the
beach, mangroves to the areas along the river edge, coastal and alluvial heath and
sedgeland, Eucalyptus woodland, and Melaleuca woodland.
2.3 BUILT FORM
The most dominant built form on Noosa North Shore is the Noosa North Shore
Retreat which is located on the northern side of Beach Road opposite the subject
site. Beach Road is the primary link road to Teewah beach. Other development
consists predominantly of dispersed residential buildings on large lots which are
generally nestled into the landscape and rarely visible from roads in the area.
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