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C.3.2.4 Preliminary community values analysis In consultation with the local Council (and other relevant agencies or groups if appropriate), identify and document in a preliminary manner: • The various groups in the local community who may hold values relating to the wind farm site and surrounding landscape. • Any strongly-held community values which may not be formally recognised, but which may influence the development of a wind farm in the landscape. • Opportunities for direct consultation with stakeholders and local communities in the Full Landscape Assessment (page 80). Options for establishing contact should also be considered in conjunction with the Community and Stakeholder Consultation specialist. These options may include telephone or face to face surveys, and focus groups. • Community/stakeholder types include any individual, business or group who may live or work in proximity to a wind farm, or who may have an interest or association with a wind farm development or its potential impacts. Stakeholders may include community members (including the Aboriginal community), statutory and nonstatutory agencies, businesses, interest groups and organisations. Depending on the project and the landscape risks identified, it may be worthwhile establishing a dialogue with some or all of the stakeholders identified above at this stage. The community values analysis should also assess existing documentation (such as tourism brochures and guidebooks) for indications about community and other values attached to landscapes in the vicinity of the subject land. Documentation (which could include material collected such as tourism brochures) should be sufficiently rigorous to: • Draw preliminary conclusions about the likely strength of community feeling about the landscape in which the subject land is sited. • Draw preliminary conclusions about the potential for landscapes in the vicinity of the wind farm to be later found to have significance even if not presently subject to statutory protection. • Provide the basis for the brief for the C.4.1.4 Community values analysis (page 16). C.3.2.5 Identification of possible cumulative impacts Other wind farms, major infrastructure and/or large scale developments (e.g. industrial, urban, agricultural) in the study area or region need to be identified. Furthermore, information should be sought from local relevant authorities about other projects in the region that have been approved but not yet built or that are being developed in parallel with the wind farm. Such projects would include other wind farms, major infrastructure and/or large scale developments (e.g. industrial, urban, agricultural) in the study area or region. A map needs to be prepared to illustrate the base cumulative impact of the wind farm development (see Cumulative impact mapping Practice Note, Section C.7.9). C.4 Planning Application C.4.1 Full Landscape Assessment The output from the tasks below is a Full Landscape Assessment Report that aims to inform the next phase - Visual Impact Assessment (C.4.2.) by: Page 80 Draft National Wind Farm Development Guidelines – 2 July 2010
• Identifying and describing (in words, maps and images) the natural and cultural characteristics and associated values of the landscape of the wind farm site and surrounding area. • Outlining any documented or recognised valued landscape character and features, along with any likely impacts of a wind farm on these values. • Evaluating the significance of the landscape character and features, and identifying elements of local, state or national significance. • Identifying the community and stakeholder groups for whom the landscape is or might be held in high regard, including those involved in contributing values to the study. • Identifying and describes features in the landscape, views and viewing experiences, characteristics or associations that are valued by communities. • Providing maps and other graphic material to support the description of landscape and visual values. • Providing reliable, objective data to inform the Visual impact Assessment (page 18) and assist communities to understand the development and its potential impacts on the landscape character and features. • Providing objectives and/or strategies to manage valued landscape character, prior to the visual impact assessment stage. In compiling the report, the following questions should be considered: • Is there sufficient information to describe all the potential impacts of the wind farm on the landscape • Has information been provided about the purpose of the wind farm, its size, location and life-span • Have the accuracy and reliability of the visual models been reported and justified • What information will support impacted community and stakeholder values to make informed decisions about the potential impacts of the wind farm on landscape character and features • Is the landscape and visual assessment report sufficiently resolved to assist in assessment of impacts in the Visual impact assessment (page 85) For a contentious project, a peer reviewer with professional expertise in landscape analysis could be appointed to review the detailed methodology proposed in the following tasks prior to commencement of works, and make recommendations for improving the methodology, if necessary. This is not an essential part of the process and is only undertaken if the development has sensitive elements that may need to be validated. The consultant should then discuss the results with the peer reviewer and resolve either to modify the methodology (in whole or in part) in accordance with the peer reviewer’s recommendations, or implement the peer reviewer’s recommended methodology in parallel with the analysis by the primary landscape consultant as a means of presenting a second opinion to the assessing relevant authority. The reporting for each task should provide written justification for the choices made and details on the method and reliability of the models used in the analysis, including any margins of error. C.4.1.1 Landscape character analysis The starting point for this task should be the wider contextual study area and the primary study area for the landscape assessment established in the C.3.2.2 Preliminary landscape character and significance analysis. In describing the landscape character of Draft National Wind Farm Development Guidelines – 2 July 2010 Page 81
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