Orbit Solutions Delivers Decisive Visual Amenity Evidence to Protect the Coastal Character of St Helens

In the matter of Amplitel Pty Ltd versus the Break O'Day Council, Orbit Solutions was engaged to provide expert Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) services, culminating in the comprehensive report". Acting on behalf of the respondent, Orbit Solutions' director Christopher Goss leveraged over two decades of experience alongside highly accurate AlignView 3D photomontage technology to objectively analyse the visual impact of a proposed 26.3-metre telecommunications tower in St Helens. Through meticulous viewshed mapping, verified point-cloud data, and a rigorous Degree of Contrast analysis, Orbit Solutions definitively demonstrated that the sheer scale, vertical line, and massing of the tower would create an 'immoderate' visual intrusion upon the township's flat topography and prevailing single-storey built form. By translating nuanced qualitative and quantitative data into clear, defensible expert evidence for the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (TASCAT), Orbit Solutions played a pivotal role in substantiating the council's position that the development would cause an unreasonable loss of visual amenity and failed to satisfy the Tasmanian Planning Scheme.