Appendix One Example of Characteristic Reason for Significance Activity Types Having Greatest Potential Impact Tidal narrows and passes • Are visually significant in themselves as events and Texture changes: as visually sensitive areas; eg structures in coastal • There are few known locations so their rarity value marine area is significant; • Contribute strongly their own particular water texture as tide changes; Exotic (pine) plantations shelter • Contribute their own distinctive uniform texture to Texture, pattern and colour belts wood lots the landscape; changes: • Create sharp lines of contrast with other land cover; eg vegetation clearance, • Contribute a different colour to land with reflection vegetation change, to water; land disturbance, and • Establishes variety of patterns depending on the water discolouration. landform and the shape of boundaries and edges and age of trees and size of plantation; Fire breaks • Define strong lines through and across landscape; Line changes: • Occur as negative deviations to overall coherence eg; vegetation change of land cover and landscape pattern; • Are highly visible, often from large distances, and are therefore visually significant depending on the degree of re-growth; Tree Exotics • Isolated clumps of exotics exotics/riparian trees/ Texture and colour (eg; Wilding Pines) rogue exotics can occur as negative deviation to changes of exotic overall coherence of landscape; plantations Rock Outcrops • Bedrock formations which extend out of the land Texture, form and line or land/sea interface; changes: • Contribute to variety and diversity of landform eg land disturbance and natural pattern of landscape; structures, vegetation changes utilities Islands • Smaller landforms and associated features Form and line changes: associated within the waterscape; eg land disturbance, • Occur as positive features which add detail to structures, utilities landscape and are focal points which are of significant visual interest; Homesteads and Farm Structures • Structures which are scattered throughout sounds Texture, pattern and rural landscape which add variety and interest to colour changes: landscape; eg vegetation change, • Contribute to variety in the texture, pattern and location and scale of colour of landscape, and a strong focus from the structural additions surrounding landscape and waterscape; Pastoral Landscape • Defines pastoral rural landscape area and contrasts Texture and pattern strongly with scrub and tree crops; changes: • Provides a clear expression of landforms and can eg vegetation change, significantly interrupt or be interrupted by areas land disturbance. of scrub and forest; • Has no capacity to camouflage structures, tracks, utilities. App One - 9