Draft National Wind Farm Development Guidelines - July 2010

A.6.1 Site selection 28
A.6.2 Project feasibility 30
A.6.3 Planning application 30
A.6.4 Construction 31
A.6.5 Operation 32
A.6.6 Decommissioning 33
A.7 Cumulative Impacts 33
A.8 Practice notes 33
A.8.1 Stakeholder identification checklist 33
A.9 Glossary & acronyms 36
B Noise 37
B.1 Introduction 37
B.2 Recommended form of noise criteria 37
B.2.1 Basic description of issues addressed in the Guidelines 37
B.2.2 Issues not addressed in the Guidelines 40
B.2.3 Related documents and standards 40
B.3 Overview of the methodology 41
B.4 Task methodologies 44
B.4.1 Project feasibility 44
B.4.2 Planning application 50
B.4.3 Construction 55
B.4.4 Operations 56
B.4.5 Decommissioning 61
B.5 Cumulative impacts 61
B.5.1 Approach to staged development 61
B.5.2 Assessment of staged and cumulative development 62
B.5.3 Cumulative assessment scenarios 62
B.6 Glossary & acronyms 64
B.7 Technical discussion of key concepts/issues 65
B.7.1 Basic acoustic concepts 65
B.7.2 Audible characteristics 66
C Landscape 69
C.1 Introduction 69
C.1.1 Basic description of issues addressed in the Guidelines 69
C.1.2 Issues not addressed in the landscape methodology 72
C.1.3 Related documents and standards 72
C.2 Overview of methodologies 73
C.3 Task methodologies 75
C.3.1 Project feasibility/site selection 75
C.3.2 Preliminary landscape assessment 76
C.4 Planning Application 80
C.4.1 Full landscape assessment 80
C.4.2 Visual impact assessment 85
C.4.3 Response to impacts 87
C.5 Construction 89
C.6 Decommissioning 89
C.7 Practice notes 89
C.7.1 Landscape character units 89
C.7.2 Levels of significance 95
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