SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 89·6.233
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment for Energy Development
Careful siting, designer skill, and landscape characteristics including landform, ridges, hills, valleys, and vegetation are key to assessing whether the landscape can accommodate development.
The ability of the landscape to accommodate development depends on careful siting, the skill of the designer and the inherent characteristics of the landscape such as landform, ridges, hills, valleys, and vegetation. The siting and cumulative landscape and visual impact of all energy developments (including existing development, extant permissions, and valid but undetermined applications) is of
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