Guidance Note for Landscape and Visual Assessment

This guideline acknowledges the important role of Landscape Architects in this field and ensuring landscape and visual assessment work is completed to a consistently high standard. This is particularly relevant due to the unprecedented pressures on our urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes. The purpose of this document is to provide a practical framework for the practice of Landscape and Visual Assessment (including impact assessment) among Registered Landscape Architects based in Queensland or working on projects in Queensland. Adoption of this guidance note will provide some consistency in approach and terminology. This guideline has been developed during a series of working sessions by members of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Queensland Regional Landscapes Group. This group of Registered Landscape Architects has extensive experience in the field of Landscape and Visual Assessment. The team includes a number of recognised leaders of the profession, which provides credibility to this document. Comments received from AILA Queensland members following publication of the draft have also been incorporated into this document. The Guidance Note won the President's Award at the 2019 National Landscape Architecture Awards; the authors were commended for providing a practical framework for the industry to ensure work is completed to a consistently high standard.