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2.11.2 At a regional level the RSS Policy ENV10 requires that “Plans,
strategies, investment decisions and programmes should safeguard
and enhance the following landscapes and related assets of regional,
sub-regional and local importance”.
2.11.3 In addition, Paragraph 58 of the NPPF states that decisions should aim
to ensure that developments are visually attractive as a result of good
architecture and appropriate landscaping.
2.11.2 In terms of landscape character and visual amenity, the submitted
Environmental Statement assesses the effects from a range of vantage
points, the proposed landscaping strategy and the relationship of the
development to the surrounding Green Belt, landscape designations,
landscape character, built heritage assets and biodiversity and natural
environment including collation of a series of visual assessments to
assess the impact in terms of visual amenity and the definition of the
landscape strategy as detailed on the submitted Landscape Plan.
2.11.3 The report states that the site and its immediate surroundings are
located within flat open farmland, an extensive character type which is
defined as an intensively managed arable farmland. The site is located
in an urban fringe landscape defined to the west, north and east by
prominent development comprising residential to the west and north
and industrial/commercial to the east including extensive development
associated with the former airfield and British Gypsum to the northeast.
The A162 runs in close proximity to the eastern boundary and
the combined effect of these elements with the intensively cultivated
open arable fields reduces the quality of the local landscape setting.
2.11.4 In visual terms the report states that the site is well contained with
views limited to the immediate boundaries of the site from roads and
limited views from public rights of way and properties. To the south
views are contained by the vegetated embankment of an elevated
railway to the west by buffer planting associated with the Brook Mill and
Moor Lane Trading Estate. To the west and north views are contained
by existing built form and associated vegetation and rolling topography.
Views to the site are very much set in the context of the prominent
urban form to the north, west and east.
2.11.5 The report concludes that the landscape strategy for the development
will ensure that the scheme is acceptable in the landscape and visual
terms. As with any development of this scale and form there will be
inevitable adverse effects, however these have been limited through a
green infrastructure strategy comprising 33% of the site area which will
integrate with the wider landscape and strategic infrastructure network
that is currently limited. These new areas of green infrastructure would
provide a structured landscape setting that will assist in reducing the
likely visual effects of the development over time but will deliver a multifunctional
network of open spaces and as such the report states there
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