APPENDIX 9.1

CASTELL Y MYNACH ESTATE LAND NORTH OF LLANTRISANT ROAD, CREIGIAU (LDP ALLOCATION - SITE E)

Fig 9.1 Landscape Designations Fig 9.2 LANDMAP Visual and Sensory Level 3 Classification Fig 9.3 City Council Landscape Character Assessment Fig 9.4 LANDMAP data (V&S, Historical, Cultural) : site and immediate surrounds Fig 9.5 LANDMAP data (Geological, Land scape Habitats): site and immediate sur rounds Fig 9.6 Ordnance Survey County Series Map Published 1877 –80 Fig 9.7 ZTV (bare earth) Fig 9.8 ZTV (existing screening features) Fig 9.9 Viewpoint photo VP1 Fig 9.10 Viewpoint photo VP2 Fig 9.11 Viewpoint photo VP3 Fig 9.12 Viewpoint photo VP4 Fig 9.13 Viewpoint photo VP5 Fig 9.14 Viewpoint photo VP6 Fig 9.15 Viewpoint photo VP7 Fig 9.16 Viewpoint Photo VP8 Fig 9.17 Viewpoint Photo VP9

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Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Landscape Designations Plan Fig 9.1

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 LANDMAP Visual and Sensory Level 3 Classification Fig 9.2

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Cardiff City Council Landscape Character Areas Fig 9.3 VISUAL AND SENSORY AS- HISTORICAL ASPECT AREAS PECT AREAS

Creigiau Golf Course CRDFFVS060 Moderate Plateau CRDFFHL004 Creigiau North West Moderate CRDFFVS001 Moderate

Creigiau Golf Course CRDFFHL024 Pentyrch –south Moderate CRDFFVS007 High

Creigiau Creigiau CRDFFVS073 CRDFF023 Low Moderate

Hendre CYNONVS572 Meisgyn Moderate CYNONHL995 Moderate

Creigiau southwest lowlands Capel Llanitern and CRDFFVS008 southwest Pentyrch Moderate CRDFFHL002 High

CULTURAL ASPECT AREAS

LANDMAP DEFINITION OF TERMS: ‘Outstanding' Value is of National or International importance 'High' value is of County or Regional importance 'Moderate' value is of Local importance Golf Courses ‘Low’ is of little or no importance CRDFFCL018 Source: published LANDMAP Data Sets, Countryside Council for Moderate , January 2013

Creigiau CRDFFCL006 Moderate

Designated Landscape Areas CYNONCL056 High

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau Garth Hill CRDFFCL007 APPENDIX 2 High LANDMAP Data: V and S, Historical, Cultural Fig 9.4 GEOLOGICAL ASPECT AREAS LANDSCAPE HABITATS AS- PECT AREAS

Creigiau CRDFFGL031 Farmland north of High Creigiau CRDFFLH035 Moderate Pentyrch CRDFFGL026 High Creigiau CRDFFLH036 Low Creigiau Valley CRDFFGL029 High Improved grassland CYNONLH101 Moderate Capel Llanitern CRDFF030 Moderate

Farmland south of Creigiau, north of M4 CRDFFLH037 Moderate

LANDMAP DEFINITION OF TERMS: 'Outstanding' Value is of National or International importance 'High' value is of County or Regional importance 'Moderate' value is of Local importance ‘Low’ is of little or no importance Source: published LANDMAP Data Sets, Countryside Council for Wales, January 2013

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 LANDMAP Data Geological, Landscape Habitats Fig 9.5 Ordnance Survey County Series Map Published 1877 –80 Published Scale 1:2500

Site Boundary Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Historic Plans Fig 9.6 Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 ZTV Bare Earth Fig 9.7

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 ZTV With Screening Fig 9.8 VP1 Some residents of Dol-Y-Felin, Llys Dyfrig and other adjacent streets, currently enjoy pastoral views such as this one, across some of the fields which comprise the site. This view is terminated by the area of ancient woodland and the linear plan- tation beside the A4119, Llantrisant Road. This open field view will be replaced by a view across the new ‘greenway’ and into VP1 the proposed new development.

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photo VP1 Fig 9.9 VP2. Alongside the site’s north eastern boundary some residents of Maes-Y-Derwen, Clos Llewellyn and other adjacent streets currently enjoy pastoral views across some of the fields which comprise the site, towards a backdrop of trees and woodland. This open field view will be replaced by a view across the back gardens and housing of parts of the proposed new development.

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Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photo VP2 Fig 9.10 Visible extent of Site

VP3 From an elevated position on Ffordd Dinefwr, the principal arterial road running through the residential area, just to the north of the site, there is a framed south westerly view, across a small part of the site, towards a wooded ridge in the far distance.

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Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photo VP3 Fig 9.11 VP4 From a residential crescent just off the Cardiff Road residents have a view across the road towards the eastern boundary of the site which is defined by a managed hedgerow backed by a linear plantation of largely broadleaved trees. This plantation forms aneffective visual barrier. One of the proposed road access points for the development will remove a short section of this boundary planting.

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Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photos VP4 Fig 9.12 Part of Junction 33 Development The Site

VP5 From a public footpath, just to the east of the site there are views along the A4119( Llantrisant Road) which at this point separates the ongoing works of the consented Junction 33 development, visible in the left of the photo, from the Cas- tell Y Mynach site which is hidden by the well established plantation alongside Cardiff Road. Such is the density of this plantation, that even after leaf fall there will only be glimpses of the proposed development filtered by the tracery of the trees. There will however be a small area of boundary clearance with the Application Site close to the Cardiff Road , Llantrisant Road junction which will reveal a few of the new housing units

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photos VP5 VP5 Fig 9.13 VP 6 From the edge of Grosfaen there are easterly views along the A4119 towards the site which is hidden by intervening woodland. There will be little or no change to this view.

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Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photos VP6 Fig 9.14 Pentyrch Approx location of Site

VP 7 From the top of Garth Hill, there are panoramic views across Cardiff and South towards the coast. The settlement of Pentyrch is prominent below the hillside in the middle distance. The site appears to be largely hidden by intervening landform and veg- etation. From here it is unlikely that anything other than, perhaps, a few rooftops, will be visible. Thus there will be negligible change to this view. VP7

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photo VP7 Fig 9.15 VP 8 From a point where a public footpath crosses the former railway line, close to the service station at Junction 33 on the M4, there are pleasant pastoral views across grazing pasture towards the site. The site is hidden by intervening vegetation, and it is unlikely that the proposed development will be visible from here, particularly since, all of the land in this photo is part of the consented Junction 33 development.

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 VP8 Viewpoint Photo VP8 Fig 9.16 Garth Hill Pentyrch Creigiau Robin Hill

VP 9 From a public footpath to the south of Dodridge there are pleasant, far reaching views towards the prominent Garth Hill, and the ridges of ther South Wales valleys beyond. The settlements of Pentyrch, just below Garth Hill, and Creigiau, in the valley below are visible from here. Little can be seen of the site, except the relatively high ground at Robin Hill. Thus little will be seen of the proposed development, except perhaps some of the rooftops. However at this distance which is in excess of 5kms there will be little perceptible change to this view.

Castell Y Mynach, Creigiau APPENDIX 2 Viewpoint Photo VP9

VP9 Fig 9.17