drought- resistant and have fire spreading/ retardant properties. planting of environmental Refer also to the Native weeds. Vegetation Clauses of the Nillumbik Planning Scheme (Clauses 15.09 and 52.17), and the State Native Government’s Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action. Views & Vistas To preserve and Unsympathetic/ Site buildings, structures and enhance scenic intrusive other infrastructure away from views of the buildings and prominent views available from Kinglake structures that main roads/ key viewing National Park, obscure corridors and other publicly the Yarra and prominent accessible locations. views. Plenty River Design and site buildings, corridors and Conspicuous or structures and other their incongruous infrastructure which occurs in surrounding (out of place) the foreground (up to 1 environs, as buildings, kilometre) of views of the viewed from structures or Kinglake National Park, so as main roads and infrastructure to not adversely affect the other publicly visible in the character and quality of these accessible foreground of views, unless it can be shown locations. views of the that equivalent publicly To maintain the Kinglake accessible vistas are available visual National Park. nearby. prominence of Loss of publicly Design and site buildings, highly vegetated accessible structures and other hillslopes and views of the infrastructure which occurs in riverbanks, highly vegetated the immediate foreground (up which form an hillslopes and to 1 kilometre) of the Yarra and important part of riverbanks along Plenty River corridors, so as to the amenity and river corridors. not adversely affect the character of the character and quality of views Loss of the Green Wedge. of the vegetated hillslopes and current balance riverbanks. between natural and cultivated/ Consider the cumulative impact settled of developments visible from landscapes. main roads/ key viewing
drought- resistant and have fire retardant properties. Refer also to the Native Vegetation Clauses of the Nillumbik Planning Scheme (Clauses 15.09 and 52.17), and the State Government’s Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action. spreading/ planting of environmental weeds. Views & Vistas To preserve and enhance scenic views of the Kinglake National Park, the Yarra and Plenty River corridors and their surrounding environs, as viewed from main roads and other publicly accessible locations. To maintain the visual prominence of highly vegetated hillslopes and riverbanks, which form an important part of the amenity and character of the Green Wedge. Site buildings, structures and other infrastructure away from prominent views available from main roads/ key viewing corridors and other publicly accessible locations. Design and site buildings, structures and other infrastructure which occurs in the foreground (up to 1 kilometre) of views of the Kinglake National Park, so as to not adversely affect the character and quality of these views, unless it can be shown that equivalent publicly accessible vistas are available nearby. Design and site buildings, structures and other infrastructure which occurs in the immediate foreground (up to 1 kilometre) of the Yarra and Plenty River corridors, so as to not adversely affect the character and quality of views of the vegetated hillslopes and riverbanks. Consider the cumulative impact of developments visible from main roads/ key viewing Unsympathetic/ intrusive buildings and structures that obscure prominent views. Conspicuous or incongruous (out of place) buildings, structures or infrastructure visible in the foreground of views of the Kinglake National Park. Loss of publicly accessible views of the highly vegetated hillslopes and riverbanks along river corridors. Loss of the current balance between natural and cultivated/ settled landscapes.