Technical Note 2: Wyre Forest Local Plan – Summary of Green Belt Site Assessments
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ED20B 1 © Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited Technical Note 2: Wyre Forest Local Plan – Summary of Green Belt Site Assessments 1. Introduction This Technical Note summarises the assessment of Green Belt sites which are proposed for development within the emerging Wyre Forest District Local Plan. The summary combines those sites which were assessed as part of the 2017 Site Assessment process1 along with additional site assessments set out in: Wyre Forest District Local Plan – Additional Green Belt Site Assessments. Site Reference Location Page Site Reference Location Page FPH/27 Land adjacent Easter Park, Worcester Road 16 LI/13 Land Off Zortech Avenue 32 WFR/WC/15 Lea Castle Village – main site 18 MI/18 Land North of Wilden Industrial Estate 34 WFR/WC/32 Lea Castle Village – land to the east 20 MI/36 Firs Yard, Wilden Lane 35 WFR/WC/33 Lea Castle Village – land to the west 22 MI/38 School Site, Coniston Crescent 36 WFR/WC/34 Lea Castle Village – land to the north 24 OC/5 Land at Husum Way 38 LI/10 Land r/o Zortech Avenue 26 OC/6 Land east of Offmore 40 LI/11 Land west of former school site Coniston Crescent 28 OC/12 Comberton Lodge Nursery 42 LI/12 Former Burlish Golf Course Clubhouse 30 OC/13N Land at Stone Hill North 44 1 (GB02) GB review – Part 2: Site Analysis (May 2018) - https://www.wyreforestdc.gov.uk/media/3991681/Green-Belt-Review-Part-II-Analysis-of-Sites-May-2018- update.pdf (GB02a) GB review – Part 2: Site Analysis (May 2018) – Appendix C - https://www.wyreforestdc.gov.uk/media/3991987/Green-Belt-Review-Part-II-May-2018-Appendix-C.pdf October 2020 43332-WOOD-ZZ-XX-RG-J-0004_S0_P01.1 ED20B 2 © Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited Site Reference Location Page Site Reference Location Page WA/BE/1 Stourport Road Triangle 46 WA/UA/4 Allotments, Upper Arley 63 WA/BE/3 Catchem’s End 48 WA/UA/6 Red Lion Car Park 65 WA/BE/5 Land south of Habberley Road 50 WFR/CC/8 Fold Farm, Chaddesley Corbett 66 WA/KF/3 Land at Low Habberley 52 WFR/WC/36 Rock Tavern Car Park, Caunsall 67 WFR/CB/3 Land off Station Drive, Blakedown 54 WFR/WC/37 Land at Caunsall Road, Caunsall 69 WFR/WC/12 Lawnswood 56 WFR/WC/18 Sion Hill School site 58 PDL SITES Cursley Distribution Park 70 MI/24 adj. Rock Tavern, Wilden Lane 60 Rushock Trading Estate 72 WA/UA/1 Bellman’s Cross, Shatterford 61 West Midlands Safari Park 74 SUMMARY OF CONTRIBUTION TO GREEN BELT PURPOSES AND EFFECT OF DEVELOPMENT ON THE GREEN BELT Site Contribution to Green Belt Purpose Commentary Effect of Development LC = Limited Contribution, C = Contribution, SC = Significant Contribution Sprawl Sprawl Merger Encroachment Setting Overall FPH/27 Land adjacent LC LC LC C LC LIMITED CONTRIBUTION Development would have a limited effect on openness, Easter Park, being dominated by urban uses to the north and west. The site makes a very limited contribution to Worcester However, a degree of sensitivity in the scale and massing of Green Belt purposes strategically and locally, Road development would need to be exercised given the site’s being strongly bounded on all sides and place as part of the southern gateway to Kidderminster largely visually isolated from the Green Belt to along the A449. the east and south. The local context, which October 2020 43332-WOOD-ZZ-XX-RG-J-0004_S0_P01.1 ED20B 3 © Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited Site Contribution to Green Belt Purpose Commentary Effect of Development LC = Limited Contribution, C = Contribution, SC = Significant Contribution Sprawl Sprawl Merger Encroachment Setting Overall has a strongly urbanised character, adds to the sense of disconnection of the site from Green Belt purposes. WFR/WC/15 Lea Castle C LC C LC C CONTRIBUTION The effect on openness of the Green Belt in this location Village – main would be neutral, reflecting the site’s previously developed The character of the site, being previously site nature although this is dependent upon retention of the developed and strongly bounded physically current development footprint, building density and height. and visually, means that the overall impact of development on Green Belt purposes would be limited. However, should development encroach beyond current developed footprint then the impact would be significantly greater, reflecting careful siting of past development on a plateau and the benefit of landscape planting containing visual impacts. WFR/WC/32 Lea Castle SC LC C C SC SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION Development is judged to have a significant effect on the Village – land openness of the Green Belt in this location, being on the Overall, the site makes a significant to the east flanks of rising land which is exposed to the south and contribution to the Green Belt through its role south east. The land is part of the north eastern gateway to in safeguarding the countryside from Kidderminster and notwithstanding the presence of the Lea encroachment (clearly being visually and Castle site immediately to the north west, would introduce functionally part of the open countryside to development into open countryside. the north of Kidderminster) and sprawl along the A451. Development would have a significant effect on openness reflecting the partial enclosure of the site and its visually October 2020 43332-WOOD-ZZ-XX-RG-J-0004_S0_P01.1 ED20B 4 © Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited Site Contribution to Green Belt Purpose Commentary Effect of Development LC = Limited Contribution, C = Contribution, SC = Significant Contribution Sprawl Sprawl Merger Encroachment Setting Overall sensitivity creating a fundamentally new character to this gateway to Kidderminster. WFR/WC/33 Lea Castle C LC C LC C CONTRIBUTION The site contributes to the openness of the countryside in Village – land this locality reflecting its scale and orientation, despite The site contributes to the role of the wider to the west being enclosed on two sides by built development. There is Green Belt, being part of open countryside to a visual connection with open land to the west, which the north of Kidderminster. The land forms the together with this land forms a distinct countryside context principal context of the northern gateway to for the northwest of Kidderminster. Kidderminster along the A449 Wolverhampton Road and development would alter the relationship between town and country in this location. WFR/WC/34 Lea Castle C LC C LC C CONTRIBUTION Development, whilst bounded on all sides, would intrude Village – land upon the wider openness of the Green Belt in this location, Whilst the site is physically related to the to the north by introducing a new urban edge into land which visually carefully located and screened Lea Castle related and oriented to the open countryside to the north, Hospital site and development along Lea rather than existing development immediately to the south. Castle Drive, it is nevertheless related in character and orientation to the wider open countryside to the north. Development would introduce a new development. LI/10 Land r/o C C C LC C CONTRIBUTION Development would result in the extension of the built Zortech edge of Kidderminster into open land to the southwest. As Whilst the site is of a relatively modest scale, it Avenue such this would harm physical openness and to a lesser is nevertheless part of wide land (strategic extent visual openness. The site, however, in combination parcel SW4) which makes a Significant with surrounding land, could lend itself to redevelopment Contribution to Green Belt purposes overall, October 2020 43332-WOOD-ZZ-XX-RG-J-0004_S0_P01.1 ED20B 5 © Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited Site Contribution to Green Belt Purpose Commentary Effect of Development LC = Limited Contribution, C = Contribution, SC = Significant Contribution Sprawl Sprawl Merger Encroachment Setting Overall reflecting its size and strategic location which incorporates landscape and nature conservation between Kidderminster, Bewdley and enhancement which complements the wider Green Belt. Stourport. As such the parcel makes a Note: development to be considered in relation to adjacent Contribution to the Green Belt by containing sites LI/12 and LI/13. the urban edge of Kidderminster, in combination with other land. LI/11 Land west of C SC C LC SC SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION The site and its wider context is characterised by a high former school degree of visual exposure which would be compromised by The site is part of the remaining open land site Coniston development, particularly in respect of the unbounded between Stourport and Kidderminster, the Crescent northeastern edge. Here, despite ‘rounding-off’ of the built erosion of which would further narrow the edge, development would represent an extension into local already limited gap between the two countryside. settlements. Development would have to be considered in the context of proposals on an adjacent site/ LI/12 Former Burlish C C C LC C CONTRIBUTION Development would result in the extension of the built Golf Course edge of Kidderminster into open land to the southwest. As Whilst the site is of a relatively modest scale, it Clubhouse such this would harm physical openness and to a lesser is nevertheless part of wide land (strategic extent visual openness. The site, however, in combination parcel SW4) which makes a Significant with surrounding land, could lend itself to redevelopment Contribution to Green Belt purposes overall, which incorporates landscape and nature conservation reflecting its size and strategic location enhancement which complements the wider Green Belt. between Kidderminster, Bewdley and Note: development to be considered in relation to adjacent Stourport. As such the parcel makes a sites LI/10 and LI/13. Contribution to the Green Belt by containing the urban edge of Kidderminster.