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Energy Projects

IRIS Visual Planning + Design offers experience assessing the landscape and visual impacts of renewable energy and transmission projects. Our recent projects include solar farm and transmission line projects.

The scale of these activities can create significant landscape and visual impacts, particularly when seen from residential properties and open space areas. Often the scale of this development contrasts with the surrounding landscape. In particular, the development of transmission towers are often a contentious issue, requiring consideration of impacts on property values due to reduced amenity.

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Yuleba to Blythedale Transmission Line Project
Visual Impact Assessment for Powerlink

IRIS Visual Planning + Design prepared a visual assessment to inform the impact valuation of two properties that will be affected by the Yuleba to Blythedale Transmission Line Project. The team prepared GIS analysis, photomontages and a written assessment to explain the impacts to it's owners and inform the compensation package. It was essential that the photomontages for this project were rigorously prepared and accurate so as to reflect the true scale and extent of the project. Our Landscape Architects worked with the client and owners on site to identify areas of the properties that were particularly sensitive to the owners, and fairly identify the magnitude of impact.

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CopperString Project EIS
Scenic Amenity and Lighting Assessment


The CopperString Project was a proposed power transmission line running generally between Townsville and Mt Isa in North Queensland. This project involves a total of 1028km of transmission line, six substations and associated construction activities including seven temporary workers camps. This corridor covered a diverse cross-section of Queensland landscapes from tropical coastal landscapes through to the outback landscapes of central north Queensland. This Scenic Amenity and Lighting Assessment was used as a technical study to support an Environmental Impact Statement for the project. This project was undertaken for Leighton Contractors. *

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Bli Bli Quarry Expansion Project
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment


This project involved the visual assessment of an existing quarry located on the Sunshine Coast. This site is located within a landscape under pressures of increasing development. This assessment considered the proposed extension in the context of a progressive rehabilitation of the existing pit as well as rehabilitation plans for the proposed extension over a 40 year timeframe. **

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