Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan Example of Characteristic Reason for Significance Activity Types Having Greatest Potential Impact Small coves • Strongly enclose parts of the landscape; Form, line, and pattern • Provide a human scale when viewed from the water; changes: • Features within the cove can be visually contained eg structures on land, within the cove; structures in coastal marine • Establish curved lines at the land/water edge; area, land disturbance, • Establish pattern of a series of indented or curved utility network lines beaches and headlands • Contribute to the intricacy of the alignment of the coastline (an individual cove may be one of a series of coves important for the pattern they create in their natural state and may need to be judged in a wider context than just within the cove itself); Significant areas of indigenous • Strongly define the unique New Zealand texture of Texture, pattern and colour vegetation the land cover; changes: • Establish natural patterns in their coverage of eg vegetation clearance, landform, flowing with the topography of the land disturbance, landscape; structures • Create soft edges at ridgelines, skylines, shorelines, and at edges with other vegetation; • Contributes to visual enclosure of individual coves; • Strongly define the muted green colour of the landscape and its reflection in water; • Significant in contributing to coherence of landscape; Areas of re-growth scrub • Defines unique New Zealand texture and pattern Texture pattern and colour as low cover over landform; changes: eg vegetation clearance, land disturbance, structures Scattered small baches and jetties, • Occur as positive deviations in the landscape; Texture pattern and colour where small and unobtrusive • Add visual interest and activity to the landscape; changes: • Contribute to variety in the texture of the landscape; eg large obtrusive • Create a visual pattern depending on their distribution structures prominently sited Distinctive drowned valleys • Provide clear U-shaped and V-shaped cross-section; Form and pattern changes: • Provide open and expansive (super-human) eg land disturbance, landscape scale; utility network lines • Provide distinctive pattern in ridge lines and valleys Flat valley floors • Strongly define the cross sectioncross-section having Form changes: distinct sides and floor; eg storage of materials, • Provide open, expansive landscape, and large scale landform changes, macro- (larger than human scale); scale utility network structures. Pasture on valley floors and hill slopes • Defines particular fine texture of landscape; Texture changes: • Provides distinct colour and contrast; eg land disturbance, • Often accompanied by paddock fences which provide vegetation change a geometric pattern and linear edges; Coastal cliffs and bluffs • Define a strong edge to the coastline; Line, pattern and colour • Create a blunt linear edge to the cross-section of changes: the landscape at the land/water interface; eg structures, vegetation • The detail of the skyline and land/water edge change, land disturbance created at cliff edges and cliff bottoms is often water discolouration. intricate and establishes distinctive pattern at the coastal edge; • Often define the visual “front door” of the Sounds and are therefore visually significant and sensitive; • Highly visual from long distances at sea and therefore visually significant and sensitive; • Rugged appearance of land creates distinctive surface texture which is generally fine and consistent across the face of the cliff with distinctive rocks and varied texture at cliff bottoms App One - 8