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Walkeringham Character Study and Design Guide Final Report August 2018 Walkeringham Character Study and Design Guide This document has been designed to be printed and read at A3 Limitations AECOM Infrastructure & Environment UK Limited (hereafter referred to as “AECOM”) has prepared this Report for the sole use of Walkingheram Neighbourhood Plan (“Client”) in accordance with the Agreement under which our services were performed. No other warranty, expressed or implied, is made as to the professional advice included in this Report or any other services provided by AECOM. This Report is confidential and may not be disclosed by the Client nor relied upon by any other party without the prior and express written agreement of AECOM. 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All Rights Reserved. Project role Name Position Action summary Signature Date Qualifying body Walkeringham August 2018 Neighbourhood Plan Director / QA Mark Hughes Technical Director Mark Hughes August 2018 Researcher Graziano Di Gregorio Urban Designer Research, site visit, Graziano Di Gregorio August 2018 drawings Project Coordinator Project Coordinator August 2018 This document has been prepared by AECOM Limited for the sole use of our client (the “Client”) and in accordance with generally accepted consultancy principles, the budget for fees and the terms of reference agreed between AECOM Limited and the Client. Any information provided by third parties and referred to herein has not been checked or verified by AECOM Limited, unless otherwise expressly stated in the document. No third party may rely upon this document without the prior and express written agreement of AECOM Limited. 2 AECOM Walkeringham Character Study and Design Guide Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................................8 1.1. About this Report ..............................................................................................................................................................................................8 1.2. Location ................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 2. Policy review .....................................................................................................................................................................................14 2.1. Bassetlaw District. Core Strategy & Development Managment Policies DPD 2011 ..........................................................14 2.2. Initial Draft Bassetlaw Plan (2017) ...........................................................................................................................................................14 2.3. Emerging Local Plan for Bassetlaw ........................................................................................................................................................16 2.4. Current Planning Applications (August 2018) ....................................................................................................................................16 3. Contextual Analysis ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.1. Context Analysis ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 20 3.2. Site Analysis .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 3.3. Key Issues ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 4. Character Analysis ........................................................................................................................................................................ 32 4.1. Historic evolution ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.2. Photographic Survey ................................................................................................................................................................................... 34 4.3. Landscape Context ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 5. Baseline Summary ..........................................................................................................................................................................52 5.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 5.2. Key Components ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 5.3. Implications for New Development ....................................................................................................................................................... 53 6. Development Opportunity .......................................................................................................................................................... 56 6.1. The Opportunity ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 56 6.2. Long List of Sites ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 58 6.3. Sites Removed from Long List ................................................................................................................................................................. 58 6.4. Potential Development Sites .................................................................................................................................................................... 60 7. Next steps ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 64 7.1. Next Steps ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 64 AECOM 3 Walkeringham Character Study and Design Guide List of figures Figure 21: WM.02 - Some of these views are relatively contained, such as the one shown here out onto The Moor, while others are much longer and offer a broader vista. ....................................................................................................................................................35 Figure 1: Wider context...........................................................................................................................................................................................8 Figure 23: SM.01 - Development