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LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROJECT 214 Maybanks Campsite Maybanks Farm Epping Road Toothill ANNA FRENCH ASSOCIATES LTD Document Number: 214-DOC-001 Date of Issue: May 2019 T 01525838796 W annafrenchassociates.co.uk Issue: FOR PLANNING E [email protected] CONTENTS 7.8. Landscape & Landscaping 7 1.1. Viewpoint 2 17 7.9. Tourism 7 1.1. Viewpoint 3 18 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Viewpoint 4 19 1.1. Background and Scope 1 8. LANDSCAPE PLANNING POLICY 8 1.1. Viewpoint 5 20 Fig. 1-1. Site Location Plan 1 8.1. Emerging Local Plan (2017) 8 Fig. 8-1. Policy Context Plan 9 12. SUMMARY OF VISUAL EFFECTS 21 2. BASELINE CONDITIONS 2 12.1. Effects of Views from Residential Receptors 21 2.1. The Site 2 9. LANDSCAPE CHARACTER 10 12.2. Effects on Views from Listed Building. 21 2.2. The Surrounding Area 2 9.1. Introduction 10 12.3. Effects on Views from Public Rights of Way 21 2.3. Local Planning Designations 2 9.2. The Northern Thames Basin (111) 10 12.4. Effects on Views from Local Roads 21 2.4. Other Designations 2 9.3. The Epping Forest District Council Landscape Studies, ‘Landscape Character Assessment’. 10 12.5. Scale of Visual Effects 21 3. METHODOLOGY 3 9.4. Landscape Sensitivity 10 13. MITIGATION & ENHANCEMENTS 22 3.1. LVIA Methodology 3 Fig. 9-1. Landform Analysis Plan 11 13.1. Mitigation Proposals 22 3.1. Main Objectives 3 10. ASSESSMENT OF LANDSCAPE EFFECTS 12 I. REFERENCES 23 4. GENERAL SITE PHOTOGRAPHS 4 10.1. Introduction 12 10.2. Local Scale Evaluation 12 5. GENERAL SITE PHOTOGRAPHS 5 10.3. Landscape Scale 12 6. METHODOLOGY 6 10.4. Landform & Enclosure 12 10.5. Landscape Pattern & Complexity 12 6.1. Introduction 6 10.6. Land use 12 6.1. Main Objectives: 6 10.7. Visibility 12 7. LANDSCAPE PLANNING POLICY 7 10.8. Tranquillity 12 7.1. National Planning Policy Framework 7 10.9. Summary 12 7.2. Toot Hill Neighbourhood Plan. 7 11. ASSESSMENT OF VISUAL EFFECTS 13 1.1. Epping Forest District Council Local Plan 7 11.1. Assessment Criteria 13 7.3. Design & the Built Environment. 7 11.2. Overall Significance 13 7.4. Proposals within the Green Belt. 7 11.3. Receptors and Zone of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV) 13 7.5. Nature Conservation 7 Fig. 11-1. Viewpoints 14 7.6. Employment 7 Fig. 11-2. Zone of Theoretical Visibility 15 7.7. Recreation, Sport & Tourism 7 1.1. Viewpoint 1 16 PROJECT 214 MAYBANKS CAMPSITE ANNA FRENCH ASSOCIATES LTD | i Notes: T E 75m M Y S W R A N P W A T E R M Path O E A S 81m 85m D T D A ROA E D M Pa th FB CLOSE Iss Sta Mast Path Lane Woodland Penson's Burial Park 90m 80m K m 85m 80 I Path L N 104m Fays Greensted Clements Path 95m BS Cottage Ongar Park Lodge House 75m ROA D 87m LANE Path 90m 90m O N 'S 85m P E N S Little 95m 95m Thorbens 77m 85m 94m 100m Cold Hall Track 92m 105m 1. INTRODUCTION Lodge Drain Cold Hall Greensted Farm Track Green Carrisbrook Farm Cold Hall 76m Hardings Path 100m Farm Farm Track Issues Track Nursery 80m 1.1. Background and Scope Path Path Tk Greensted Wood 107m 105m 1.0.1. Anna French Associates Ltd has been instructed to carry out a 64m Path Humgate House 2km Track 107m Drain Path Track Landscape Visual Impact Assessment of the proposed site located Track 92m Path Track Track Wr at Maybank’s Farm, Toot Hill. see Site Location Plan Fig 1-1. The Twr 104m Clunes 71m Oakmill House Stud site is set back from the main road Epping Road behind some farm 109m 105m M High IL L Wood Hilltop Farm Path buildings in a field and is located on a slope with some trees and LANE R 100m Issues Path Track Track E N R Path Path hedges around it. O C Track Path Sinks Barnmead Clements Farm Ongar Park 95m 100m S Wood R Issues E P A R D Hall Drill House 1.0.2. The Architects, Matchbox Architects, have produced a design for Widow's Path Path Drain Stables 86m Farm 90m TOOT th PH Pa 1km HILL ROA a campsite development of 4 camping pods, an artist’s studio and 85m D Steers Farm 78m Drain Mount 92m 90m Toot Hill Wood 95m a carport within an existing grass field, see Drawings 1049-MBA- Four 80m R D Acres Ongar Park Path Issues 95m Path 96m Wood Does R CREST D D Farm ROA Papillon G XX-00-DR-A-10100-SO-01, 1049-MBA-XX-00-DR-A-20001-SO-01, Drain 108m Clatterford Four IN P Potash P HILL E Alista Tawney Barn Winds O A D End Mount Wood High R M G IN CUMLEY P P O Cottage Tawney E Covars U 82m 92m 1049-MBA-XX-00-VR-A-10001-SO-01 . N Mead T Maybanks W O Farm O 99m Bentons D Bugle Colliers Hatch Cottage Issues Tk Old Freemans LANE House Farm Tawney Burrows 1.0.3. This report is intended to describe and evaluate the existing site at the Hatch Path Moat Farm 85m T A W N Moat Newhouse E 80m Y local landscape character level and to provide a visual assessment House Iss FB Farm C O Issues M M 78m Path Path O Path N and report. The report is to set out any important views or sensitive Gladdens Issues 95m Track Temple 75m 80m Cottage Sinks Path areas, recommendations of the possible mitigation measures will be Fyrth 83m Blake's Tawney Farm Coleman's 110m Path Issues Path summarised along with the conclusions in relation to the proposals 75m Farm Mount 80m Path Farm by Matchbox Architects. 70m 90m 67m Track 105m FB 65m 76m 85m 100m 1.0.4. The Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment has been carried Path 57m 80m 95m Track Track Golf Course out by a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute and studies Stewart's Farm 60m 70m 90m the potential effects of the development proposals on the landscape 85m 59m 55m COMMO SCHOOL N character, the visual amenity and the landscape elements such as Path R O A TAWNEY D 49m Path Brook vegetation and topography. 57m PH Cottage Path Iss Path W Woodhatch Issues Farm Hop Issues Gardens Path 1.0.5. The work has been carried out in March when there were little / no Path Track Woodhatch leaves on the trees. T Spr P A at W Track N h E Y COMMO N Issues STANFORD RIVERS CP Track 87m Knightsland Wood D 79m 99m Crumps Farm 101m Northlands House Church 97m C 100m T Wood Cottages A h at W P N E Path Y B Path rack T LANE 90m A LANE IC K Beachet Wood W E R Knightlands Farm 95m B 85m Rev Date Details 77m 86m 80m Anna French Associates Ltd Room 12, The Stable Block Path Wrest Park Iss Mast Path Silsoe, Bedfordshire Issues Issues Path Track MK45 4HR 75m 97m 70m 65m T 01525838796 82m 65m Path Path E [email protected] Path 103m W annafrenchassociates.co.uk O LD Lodge Path Path 100m Long The Old Keepers R Client: Rectory E Cottage Spring C T O R Y Barn 64m 88m ROA Cottage W Path D 90m 80m Project: Path 80m Round Hanging Well Path Spring Eaves Spring Path Path Path Drawing Title: 75m 75m Berwick Path Track 57m Round Farm A1 Issues Spring 70m Icehouse Wood 65m 55m Path Path Phase: Brookmead Iss 70m 70m Cottages 50m Path Tk Path Tk 67m 70m Path Icehouse 85m 80m Drawing Number: Rev: Date: Wood Bell's Path Reservoir ///-PL-001 Farm Path 85m Path Tr ack 55m Spr Drawn by: Scale: PH 61m Little Tawney Track Drain Works 1:100@A1 Hall Twentyacre Wood 50m W s Track Path Path [Drawing Title] DO NOT SCALE FROM DRAWING. 1 Scale: 1:7500 Anna French Associates Ltd registered in England no. 07788201 at 36, Ravensburgh Close Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire MK45 4RG © Anna French Associates Ltd Fig. 1-1. Site Location Plan PROJECT 214 MAYBANKS CAMPSITE ANNA FRENCH ASSOCIATES LTD | 1 2. BASELINE CONDITIONS 20001-SO-01, 1049-MBA-XX-00-VR-A-10001-SO-01 . 2.4.4. The site to the rear of the main farm buildings within some arable 2.1. The Site fields, it is a wooded copse setting to the north with hedgerows to the east, west and a sloped field to the south. 2.1.1. The site is a ridge top village located in the Epping Forest District of Essex, it is 2.3 miles south-west of the town of Chipping Ongar and 3.5 miles to the east of the town of Epping, to the north is the Parish of North Weald Bassett. It has many small hamlets and villages scattered around it. The local planning authority is Stanford Rivers Parish Council. Toot Hill has a population of around 800 people, it has a village shop, public house and an 18-hole golf course whereby the original farm house was converted into the clubhouse, it opened in 1991. 2.1.2. Access to the site would be via the existing byway and a new track. 2.1.3. The site is in a Zone 1 flood zone and so not likely to flood.