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Edinburgh Green Belt Study Stage 2 Edinburgh Green Belt Study Stage 2 Final Report December 2008 A Submission to CLIENT INFO Prepared by Land Use Consultants Date 2008 www.landuse.co.uk Edinburgh Green Belt Study Comprises the following three reports: Edinburgh Green Belt Landscape Character Assessment Stage 1 Report Stage 2 Report Prepared for Midlothian Council, City of Edinburgh Council, East Lothian Council West Lothian Council, Scottish Borders Council and Scottish Natural Heritage by Land Use Consultants in association with Carol Anderson December 2008 37 Otago Street Glasgow G12 8JJ Tel: 0141 334 9595 Fax: 0141 334 7789 [email protected] Edinburgh Green Belt Study Stage 2 Final Report Prepared for Midlothian Council, City of Edinburgh Council, East Lothian Council West Lothian Council, Scottish Borders Council and Scottish Natural Heritage by Land Use Consultants in association with Carol Anderson December 2008 37 Otago Street Glasgow G12 8JJ Tel: 0141 334 9595 Fax: 0141 334 7789 [email protected] CONTENTS 1. Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Study parameters ........................................................................................................................................1 2. Method.................................................................................................. 3 Evaluation framework................................................................................................................................................ 3 Assessment Process ...................................................................................................................................4 Presentation of results................................................................................................................................................ 9 3. Results and Conclusions.................................................................... 11 Introduction................................................................................................................................................11 LCA 6: Cammo Fringe Farmland...........................................................................................................15 LCA 8: Lennie golf course.......................................................................................................................19 LCA 9: West Craigs Farmland ...............................................................................................................23 LCA 11 Craigie Hill ..................................................................................................................................27 LCA 14 South Queensferry Farmland..................................................................................................31 LCA 17: Newton Farmland.....................................................................................................................35 LCA 21 Craigiehall Policies.....................................................................................................................39 LCA 26 Dalmahoy Policies......................................................................................................................43 LCA 27: Gowanhill Farmland .................................................................................................................47 LCA 30: East Hermiston..........................................................................................................................51 LCA 31 Baberton Farmland....................................................................................................................55 LCA 43: Broomhill farmland...................................................................................................................59 LCA 44: Burdiehouse Farmland.............................................................................................................63 LCA 45: Brunstane farmland ..................................................................................................................67 LCA 46: Danderhall Settled Farmland..................................................................................................71 LCA 47: Craigmillar farmland.................................................................................................................75 LCA 72: Airport ........................................................................................................................................79 LCA 77 Bush Estate..................................................................................................................................83 LCA 78 Glencorse....................................................................................................................................87 LCA 79 Glencorse Golf Course............................................................................................................91 LCA 80 Damhead......................................................................................................................................95 LCA 81 Roslin Farmland..........................................................................................................................99 LCA83: Edgefield Farmland.................................................................................................................. 105 LCA 85 Melville nurseries.................................................................................................................... 109 LCA 86 South Melville .......................................................................................................................... 113 LCA 88 Smeaton Farmland.................................................................................................................. 117 LCA 95: Old Craighall........................................................................................................................... 121 i ii APPENDICES Appendix 1: Evaluation form for Stage 2 landscape character areas iii iv 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Land Use Consultants in association with Carol Anderson have been commissioned by Midlothian Council on behalf of the Edinburgh and the Lothians Structure Plan Joint Liaison Committee (ELSPJLC), and subsequently by the Interim Edinburgh and South East of Scotland Strategic Development Plan Joint Committee (IESESSDPJC), now replaced by SESplan Joint Committee, to undertake the Edinburgh Green Belt Study. The Edinburgh Green Belt Study is a landscape based assessment and is one element within a wider suite of projects which will inform the new Strategic Development Plan for the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland area. 1.2. The purpose of the study is to undertake a landscape based review of the Edinburgh Green Belt within the terms of the SPP21 Green Belts. The SPP, which was published in April 2006 and replaced the longstanding advice set out in Circular 24/85, places an emphasis on defining Green Belt boundaries that can be sustained in the long-term (at least 20 years). It is therefore important that any review of the Green Belt is informed both by an understanding of which areas are most important when considered against Green Belt objectives and an understanding of those areas which are less critical and which may have the potential to accommodate planned, long term growth. 1.3. The Edinburgh Green Belt study comprises two discrete elements. The first identified those areas that, when judged against relevant SPP21 policy objectives, are of greatest importance. The findings from this stage of the study are set out in Edinburgh Green Belt Study Stage 1 Report (2008). 1.4. This report sets out the findings of the second stage of the project, which focused on those areas which meet the SPP21 policy objectives to a lesser degree and explores these areas’ potential capacity to accommodate built development. Study parameters 1.5. Since the commencement of the Study in August 2007 there has been significant advancement on three replacement local plans, all of which will impact on the GB boundary. The following bullet points summarise the stages of the three local plans. • The replacement East Lothian Local Plan is expected to be adopted by the end October 2008; • The replacement Midlothian Local Plan (also replacing Shawfair Local Plan) is expected to be adopted by the end 2008. • The Edinburgh City Local Plan is currently at local inquiry, and there is potential for some changes to the Green Belt. 1.6. However in order to ensure consistency throughout the study, the steering group agreed that the Green Belt as set out in the adopted local plans at the time the study commenced would be used throughout the project. 1 1.7. The emerging changes to the Green Belt resulting from the housing and economic land allocations within the local plans do not necessarily reflect areas identified as having landscape capacity for development in this study. However this should be taken within the context of the study parameters which identified only those sites having landscape potential for residential development. Landscape capacity is only one factor which needs to be considered when allocating land. 1.8. The remainder of this report comprises the following sections: • Section 2 – Method and Approach • Section 3 – Assessment results and conclusions 1.9. This report includes the evaluation tables for each of the 27 landscape character areas which have been included in the second stage of assessment. 2 2. METHOD
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