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Camilty Wind Farm
Asset Importance
Medium
Low
Negligible
Example
Designated special historic landscapes;
Undesignated historic landscapes that would justify special historic landscape
designation, landscapes of regional sensitivity;
Averagely well-preserved historic landscapes with reasonable coherence, timedepth,
or other critical factors.
Robust undesignated historic landscapes;
Historic landscapes with specific and substantial importance to local interest
groups, but with limited sensitivity;
Historic landscapes whose sensitivity is limited by poor preservation and/or poor
survival of contextual associations;
Robust historic landscapes.
Landscapes with little or no significant historical interest.
Assessment of Effect Magnitude - Archaeological Remains
10.2.32 The magnitude of effect is assessed without regard to the value of the resource. In terms of
the judgement of the magnitude of effect, this is based on the principle (first established in
NPPG 5) that preservation of the resource is preferred, and that total physical loss of the
resource is the least preferred.
10.2.33 It is not always possible to assess the physical effect in terms of percentage loss, and
therefore it is important in such cases to try to assess the capacity of the resource to retain its
character following any effect. Similarly, effects on the setting of archaeological remains may
also be more difficult to assess as they do not involve physical loss of the resource, and they
only apply for the life/presence of the development and thus are reversible in most cases.
10.2.34 Impact magnitude is adapted from that defined in the DMRB (Volume 11, Section 3, Annex 5)
as:
Large
Change to most, or all, key archaeological elements, such that the resource is
totally altered.
Comprehensive changes to setting (such changes would fundamentally change
the setting of the archaeological element such that its ability to be understood
was severely compromised).
Medium
Changes to many key archaeological elements, such that the resource is clearly
modified.
Material changes to setting (such changes would change the setting materially
but not fundamentally, such that its ability to be understood would be moderately
compromised).
Small
Changes to key archaeological elements, such that the resource is slightly
altered.
Slight changes to setting (such changes would be detectable but would not
fundamentally or materially compromise the ability to understand the setting).
Negligible Very minor changes to elements or setting (such changes would be barely
perceptible and would not affect the ability to understand the setting).
March 2013 10-8 ES Chapter 10
Cultural Heritage and Archaeology
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