Draft National Wind Farm Development Guidelines - July 2010

C.1.2 Issues not addressed in the Landscape Methodology
This Appendix does not address:
• Site-specific heritage impacts
The methodologies contained in this Appendix place a strong emphasis on identifying
and protecting significant cultural and natural landscapes (and features within
cultural and natural landscapes) and dealing with any wind farm impacts on them. In
terms of 'heritage' per se being assessed, identifying and assessing elements within the
natural and cultural features will contribute to this. The process of identifying and
protecting individual sites of heritage significance is a separate professional field of
analysis that has its own extensive body of regulation, policy and procedure.
Investigation of any heritage attributes of the wind farm site, or visual or other impacts
on nearby heritage places, may be warranted in locations directly affected by a
wind farm proposal.
• Site-specific environmental impacts
The environmental attributes of a landscape are often intrinsic to, or at least a
component of, that landscape’s significance. Where environmental significance has
been identified in a landscape affected by a wind farm proposal, this may become a
contributory factor in assessing the significance of that landscape. However the
process of identifying and protecting individual sites of environmental / ecological
significance is a separate professional field of analysis that has its own extensive body
of regulation, policy and procedure. Investigations of environmental and ecological
characteristics are often warranted in locations directly affected by a wind farm
proposal.
C.1.3 Related documents and standards
Two principal sources have been used in arriving at the methodologies, and should be
used in conjunction with this Appendix if more detail and specific guidance is required:
Wind Farms and Landscape Values: National Assessment Framework (Auswind and
Australian Council of National Trusts, 2007); and
Visual Landscape Planning in Western Australia: a manual for evaluation, assessment,
siting and design (Western Australian Planning Commission, 2007).
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