Visual Impact Assessment
During twenty years of working in the field of landscape character analysis and visual impact assessments across Australia and overseas, CLOUSTON Associates has sought to provide measurable best practice outcomes in this field where scientific assessment must be balanced against subjective evaluations.
Our clear and simple graphics, 3D modelling and plain English reporting are designed to simplify and clearly communicate what can otherwise be complex ideas and issues.
As such we have developed a methodology that can be applied to a range of assessment types including broad scale land use planning as well as view loss and view sharing. As landscape architects and urban designers we have the skills to bring what is of its nature a subjective issue into a more qualitative and measurable set of parameters to assist the planning process.
Typical services include:
- Preparing a Landscape Character Study or Scenic Management Plan for a locality or Local Government Area.
- Assistance in preparing a VIA methodology to be applied through a planning instrument such as a Development Control Plan.
- Assistance in preparing specific development controls relating to visual impact.
- Preparing an Expert Witness Statement for the Land and Environment Court.