Boffa Miskell Ltd | Waihi North Project | Landscape and Visual Effects | 31 Contributing factors Implementation18 Operation19 Residual20 Level of Effect21 Nature of Effect22 Level of Effect Nature of Effect Level of Effect Nature of Effect and screening low-lying surface infrastructure W2: Highland Road (VS 5) • Views from dwellings off a private road • Views of the WRS and surface infrastructure obscured beyond intervening landforms • The proposed magazine buildings and surrounding bunding appear visually contained within a localised saddle • Upgrades to the existing magazine access will form an initial worked appearance which will become progressively integrated within surrounding areas of pasture once hydroseeded Mitigation • Exposed batters supporting all access roads to be finished with rounded edges to integrate within the adjoining landform and all exposed soil scarified and hydroseeded Low Adverse Very Low Adverse Very Low Neutral W3: State Highway 25 / Corbett Road (VS 6 to 9) • Views from dwellings and transport corridors • Views typically wide and panoramic although a number of residential viewing audiences along SH25 will have partial or obscured views due to intervening roadside vegetation and vegetation within properties • Predominant change will be the presence of the WRS as this is formed and progressively removed in the context of surrounding working rural activity • WRS removed at project completion with landform recontoured and returned to grazing Low Adverse Low Averse Very Low Neutral W4: Golden Valley Road • Views from distant rural properties Very Low Adverse / Neutral Very Low Adverse / Neutral Very Low Neutral
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