Visual Landscape Analysis - Hawkesbury City Council

VANTAGE POINT 7
This viewing point is located at the local highpoint adjacent to
Grose Vale Road west of the existing village.
Tabaraga Ridge
foothills
FIGURE 26: VANTAGE POINT 7
ASSESSMENT
VISUAL SENSITIVITY
FIGURE 27: LOCATION OF VANTAGE POINT 7
x
Type of viewer
Duration of
view
Viewing
distance
Landscape
compatibility
Motorists and other road users of Grose
Vale Road.
Short as viewers can see the site on
approach however existing vegetation
and direction of road makes view oblique;
motorists are also travelling at 70km/h
speed limit which limits viewing time.
View point adjacent to south eastern corner
of site. Across subject site views to distant
hills are afforded.
Compatibility to change is high for the
foreground and midground.
This vantage point has been selected as it is located on a
high point near the southern edge of the site. Views across
the site to distant hills should be retained from this point.
The views to distant hills informs the character of the village
as being within a valley.
The landscape rural character of the ridgeline that Grose
Vale Road is situated along, is important as this forms the
edge of the scenic landscape unit as identified in SREP
20. There is potential to retain and enhance the landscape
character by creating a corridor characterised by mature
trees.
The prominence of the landscape can be further enhanced
by extending the vegetated ridgeline from the edge of the
existing village (at which point the ridgeline becomes more
prominent) to the ridgeline along the western boundary of
the site.
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