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2.9.31 As such the scheme is considered to be acceptable in terms national,
regional and local plan policies set out above as well as the
Development Brief for the site noted.
2.10 Landscaping
2.10.1 Polices ENV 20 and 21 of the Local Plan refer to the requirement for
landscaping schemes, both in terms of strategic planting, and as an
integral part of the layout and design of a scheme.
2.10.2 The site is not within the Green Belt and is not within a Locally
Important Landscape Area nor is it within or close to any area covered
by a landscape designation. Further, the principle of development in
this location has been accepted in allocating the site for residential
development in the Local Plan.
2.10.3 At the site specific level, then in terms of landscaping Policy SHB/1B
states the proposals must make provision for:
3) The establishment of permanent landscaped southern and
eastern boundaries, including a twenty metre wide woodland
planting screen adjacent to the bypass, and the maintenance
of a landscaped buffer.
2.10.4 The “Approved Development Brief” for the wider site from 2003, notes
at Paragraph 8.13 that a “Detailed Landscape and Visual Impact
Assessment will be required which assesses landscape and visual
impacts” from a series of locations outlined in the Brief.
2.10.5 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”.
2.10.6 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.
2.10.7 The application is in an outline form with “landscaping” as a reserved
matter. Landscaping covers the treatment of private and public spaces
to enhance and protect the site’s amenity through hard and soft
measures, for example through planting of trees and hedges or
screening by fences and walls.
2.10.8 The indicative layout plan and supporting documentation
demonstrates how the development could be laid out and landscaped
taking into account the existing watercourses by allowing a green
corridor along the southern boundary, retaining existing trees, planting
new hedgerows and trees around and through the site and the
provision of a central green. It should be noted that landscaping does
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