MCU18.0166 - Response to Information Request (amended)

T ABLE 2.1 - V ISUAL SENSITIVITY LEVELS                   Visual impact is the combined result of
                                                          sensitivity together with the level of
 Visual
 sensitivity   Description
                                                          modification. The visual impact may be adverse
 level                                                    or beneficial and at a level of Very high through
                                                          to negligible. (refer table 2.3)
               Views where visual amenity is important
               at a neighbourhood scale, such as views
 Neighbour                                                T ABLE 2.3 – V ISUAL IMPACT LEVELS
               seen from local roads, briefly glimpsed
 hood
               views to landscape features, and views
               from small groups of residences.                                                      Sensitivity

               View of high quality or experienced by                                   Neighbou-
                                                                                                        Local      Regional
               concentrations of residents and/or local                                   rhood
 Local
               recreational users, and/or large
                                                                                        Moderate        High         High
               numbers of road or rail users.                            High
                                                                                         adverse       adverse      adverse
               Heavily experienced view to a feature or
                                                                                          Minor       Moderate       High
               landscape that is iconic to a major                       Medium
                                                                                         adverse       adverse      adverse




                                                          Modification
 Regional      portion of a city or a non-metropolitan
               region, or an important view from an                                       Minor         Minor      Moderate
                                                                         Low
               area of regional open space.                                              adverse       adverse      adverse

                                                                         No perceived
                                                                                        Negligible    Negligible   Negligible
                                                                         change
A number of principles have been identified that
relate to how well a telecommunications tower                                            Minor        Moderate       High
                                                                         Improvement
                                                                                         benefit       benefit      benefit
can be absorbed into the landscape and what is
considered to be more or less visually
harmonious. The principles that will be applied
generally to the viewpoint assessment, are
summarised in Table 2-2 Typical Indictors of
Visual Modification.




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