The South Island's first wind farm is consented and built on the upper reaches of a hill outcrop that forms the western end of the Hokonui Hill Range
White Hill Wind Farm is a 42-turbine wind farm located on the undulating hills near Mossburn, Southland. Boffa Miskell’s team of planners, landscape planners, ecologists and technical services specialists prepared the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE), completed the landscape and ecological assessments, coordinated the resource consent application and compiled the numerous technical reports required for the assessment of environmental effects.
The landscape planning team assessed the landscape and visual effects of the wind farm, taking into account the construction and permanent landscape and visual impacts. White Hill is an elevated landform at the edge of the Waimea Plains and at the northwestern end of a geological formation known as the Southland Syncline.