**Document:** Visual Impact Study Appendix 2
**Application:** 17/01265/B — Redevelopment of disused hotel site with new hotel and leisure facilities and 40 residential apartments, with associated highway and drainage works
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2021-12-15
**Parish:** Malew
**Document Type:** report / planning_statement
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/6718-malew-golf-links-hotel/documents/1589756

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# Visual Impact Study Appendix 2

Appendix 2

PLANNING APPLICATION 17/01265/B - FORT ISLAND DEVELOPMENTS LTD Visual impact study of the proposed development Performed by Konarch CGi

P: +44 (0) 208 144 2958. Enterprise House, 5 Roundwood Lane, Harpenden, AL5 3BW, UK. info@konarchcgi.com

Langness Golf Course Limited
The Herring House
Fort Island Road
Derbyhaven
Isle of Man
IM9 1TZ

Project: CASTLETOWN GOLF LINKS HOTEL Project ID: 02436 Document: Methodology statement for creating 3D photomontage visuals Date: 29th November 2018 Our methodology to creating the photomontage visuals is as follows;

01. Create a model in Autodesk' 3D Studio Max of the building 1:1 in scale from the vector CAD and PDF files provided
02. As we did not have an Ordinance Survey map covering all areas, we extended what we did have using google earth exports which had camera station points pinned as per GPS coordinates provided by the photographer.
03. Cameras positioned on these locations. Settings (focal length, light value etc.) for the 3D cameras was set to the metadata extracted from the provided photos
04. A massing model of the existing building was created and placed according to the site plan and FFL
a. Camera targets are calibrated to this with the photo set as a background, if correct the 3D will overly the existing in the photo, which it did.
05. The source photo is cut into layers for fore and background of the building to create the photomontage final visual

With regards,

Paul

## Four locations used in the visual impact study

![map or plan from page 21](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/12/6860159.png)

![map or plan from page 21](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/12/6860160.png)

## Existing Hotel View from 1st green

![A wide panoramic photograph showing a hazy rural landscape with distant hills and a solitary tall chimney or tower structure.](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/12/6860171.png)

![A panoramic photograph showing a coastal landscape with a body of water in the foreground and rolling green hills in the background, featuring existing buildings near the shore.](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/12/6860172.png)

![A panoramic photograph showing a large white hotel building situated on a grassy coastal site with the sea in the background.](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/12/6860173.png)

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