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Appendix 5 – Latton Priory Landscape and Visual Study (Fpcr) APPENDIX 5 – LATTON PRIORY LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL STUDY (FPCR) Latton Priory Landscape & Visual Study: A Vision for a Green Infrastructure Future December 2013 DRAFT Latton Priory Other land where significant Green Infrastructure benefits can be delivered FPCR Environment and Design Ltd, Lockington Hall, Lockington, Derby, DE74 2RH t: 01509 672772 f: 01509 674565 e: [email protected] w: www.fpcr.co.uk 2 Latton Priory Landscape & Visual Study Contents 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY // page 05 // 2.0 INTRODUCTION // page 19 // 3.0 LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS // page 23 // 4.0 VISUAL ANALYSIS // page 33 // 5.0 LANDSCAPE PLANNING BACKGROUND // page 55 // 6.0 GREEN BELT // page 63 // 7. 0 GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY // page 71 // 8.0 CONCLUSIONS // page 83 // Landscape & Visual Study Latton Priory 3 4 Latton Priory Landscape & Visual Study 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Landscape & Visual Study Latton Priory 5 Views to the wooded skyline Latton Priory along green wedge from the LATTON COMMON town centre are protected Retained woodland Retained hedgerows and trees Proposed Green Wedge extension (primary Green Infrastructure) LATTON PARK Optional: Development can be screened with Indicative built development area woodland planting or it can be designed to provide a Green Infrastructure: within area proposed for built MARK BUSHES gateway frontage to the M11 development junction and London Road Green Infrastructure: historic landscape area to be retained and enhanced Heritage focus Greenways (identified in A Green Infrastructure Plan RUNDELL GROVE for Harlow) RYE HILL ROAD Views to north Indicative new green links (recreation and biodiversity) Views Notes: STORT VALLEY WAY Protect and connect existing woodland blocks, and link them 1 with woodland planting to enhance the woodland skyline and connect currently isolated ecological habitats. LONDON ROADWoodland screen planting RYE HILL MOAT along the site boundary New woodland planting to provide visual containment would Views to south would respect the existing 2 be from the south as part of the Mark Bushes / Latton Park Views to south character of London Road, woodland. LATTON PRIORY which is primarily tree lined to both sides along its 3 Extend the Green Wedge, maintain views from Harlow town FOREST WAY route from Epping centre to the skyline. Introduce new green links to enhance recreational and 4 biodiversity opportunities. 5 Safeguard rural character, protect and enhance Historic RYE HILL ROAD Landscape Character (Potential to reinstate and plant up hedgerows, manage Scheduled Monuments and enhance recreational access particularly to the Stort Valley Way). Potential to reinstate former Rye Hill Common land and / or LONDON ROAD 6 introduce biodiversity offsetting land in this location. Scheduled Monuments retained and landscape setting 7 enhanced. Opportunity to formalise a recreational route (reinstate former drove road) connecting these assets. Lower Nazeing / Clayton Hill Country Park to Latton Bush Maintain and enhance the 8 proposed Greenway (A Green Infrastructure Strategy characteristic rural view for Harlow). A Greenway is defined as a ‘linear habitat from the direction of Epping Existing tree belts along London incorporating shared use paths’. Opportunities to enhance Road, provide containment of the this route. site in views from the south east South Harlow to Rye Hill Greenway (A Green Infrastructure 9 Strategy for Harlow). Opportunities to enhance the route. Figure 1: Green Infrastructure Strategy Plan 6 Latton Priory Landscape & Visual Study Executive Summary 1.0 Overview Landscape Analysis Conclusions: which parts of the site • Character Area A (Rye Hill) and B (London Road) are related to would be appropriate for built development in landscape Harlow and the M11 junction 7 / London Road respectively and as This landscape and visual study draws together and summarises the terms? such are subject to urbanising influences. These character areas recommendations made by FPCR Environment and Design Ltd following have limited landscape structure resulting from intensification of more than eight years of desktop and site analysis of the potential arable uses. Landscape features comprise the isolated woodland The site specific analysis undertaken in this assessment identifies three landscape and visual constraints and opportunities for built development blocks between extensive areas of arable land. areas of differing character across the site. and associated Green Infrastructure provision at Latton Priory. • Character Areas A and B have been assessed as having a low- Overall the landscape character of Latton Priory is strongly influenced by This document shows how in environmental terms extension of Harlow to medium landscape sensitivity to change and would have capacity the landform and extensive areas of woodland that provide containment. the south presents the next logical step for growth and regeneration of the for sensitively designed built development within a robust Green Land use predominantly comprises large scale arable fields, with few town. The Green Infrastructure Strategy plan illustrates how sensitively Infrastructure framework. hedgerow boundaries and trees. located built development and associated GI provision at Latton Priory can bring significant landscape, recreational and biodiversity benefits for • Character Area C (Epping Valleys) slopes towards Epping and forms The character of the site forms three distinct landscape character areas both Harlow town and the wider Epping District. part of the open Epping Countryside, it includes areas of intact pre-18th defined in this study as A. Rye Hill, B. London Road and C. Epping century enclosure field systems and historical landscape elements Valleys. These are divided by changes in the landform. The recommendations within this study draw upon the environmental and including Rye Hill Moat and Latton Priory Scheduled Monuments. design guidance provided within a number of Epping Forest and Harlow District Council evidence base documents. • Character Area C is assessed as having a medium- high sensitivity to change and therefore should remain free of built development. There are opportunities here to conserve and manage its landscape Why Latton Priory? structure to deliver local landscape enhancements. • Latton Priory covers a very extensive area on the edge of Harlow; • This gives a great deal of flexibility to accommodate growth in a sustainable fashion, very well related to Harlow; • All green infrastructure assets can be retained and used to define development zones, providing a framework for a new enhanced accessible open space network; A • Analysis of contours, long ridge views and recognisable B existing features are utilised to establish a new robust green belt boundary which contains built development and ensures no encroachment on the wider landscape setting of Harlow; • Around 75 hectares of future built development encompassed and Latton Priory subdivided by 175 hectares of accessible green infrastructure; and Green Belt land proposed for Green C Infrastructure enhancements • Latton Priory itself is protected and enhanced with new structural planting reinforcing the existing landscape framework, together Rye Hill (Low - Medium A Landscape Sensitivity to change) with permissive access. London Road (Low - Medium The following provides a summary of the recommendations made within B Landscape Sensitivity to change) this report; Epping Valleys (Medium - High C Landscape Sensitivity to change) Figure 2: Landscape & Sensivity Character Areas Landscape & Visual Study Latton Priory 7 1.0 Executive Summary Visual Analysis conclusions: which parts of the site would be appropriate for built development in visual terms? The analysis undertaken within this report describes the visual • The analysis confirms that land south of the plateau and sloping • The visual analysis shows that a combination of existing woodland characteristics of the site: towards Epping is visually open countryside. Any built development and proposed advance woodland planting at the southern edge of the within this location would be visible in wider views from the south. plateau can visually contain built development. • The landform and woodland that define the three identified Landscape Character Areas also define three separate areas of visual character; • The remainder of Latton Priory is contained adjacent to Harlow by the It is this broad plateau (i.e. land above the 105metre contour) that, in the landform and tree cover and here built development can be visually absence of a detailed landscape and visual appraisal, has created an • The plateau and land that slopes north towards Harlow, contained and separated from the wider countryside within a Green element of uncertainty in the evidence base reports on its suitability for Infrastructure framework. built development. To date, the extent to which the built development • Land that slopes south east towards London Road; and could be contained on the plateau has not been established by the • The higher land that divides the three areas is often described within evidence base reports. It is therefore explored in detail within this report • Land below the plateau that slopes south west towards Epping. the evidence base documents as a ‘ridge’ but more accurately it forms through photographic analysis, supported by Indicative Site Sections. a plateau of elevated land, as is clearly evident in the photographs below. Plateau contained by existing View towards Harlow across the woodland at its southern edge Water tower
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