LPSA 647, 648 (UE2) Land North and South of A683, Quernmore
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Background Information (extracts from published evidence base) LPSA 647 Land north of A683, Quernmore LPSA 648 Land south of A683, Quernmore Site known as ‘UE2’ in earlier public consultations (Issues and Options, 2015) Site represented at EIP by Cushman and Wakefield (Rep ID 85) Contents: Location plan SHELAA assessment (Ho_SHELAA_03_SHELAA Report) Site constraints Landscape (BLS_UE02_Landscape) Heritage (LP13.102) Ecology (LP13.102) 7. Land North of A683 and Land South of A683, Quernmore 647 648 Legend LPSA 648 iN LPSA 647 Kilometers 0 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100025403. SHELAA Extract - LPSA 647 and LPSA 648 Land north and south of A683, Quernmore SuitabilityT LPSA SETTLEMENT ADDRESS Area Brownfield Conclusion Summ Desc DevelopmentAssessment Suitability Achievability Availability AchievabilityTL AvailabilityTL L The site is physically isolated from the existing urban area, in particular, other residential areas The site is considered to be and community facilities in Lancaster. This is This is a greenfield site located to the east available. The site is not exacerbated by the location of the motorway of Lancaster. However there are a number considered to be suitable which limits opportunities for the site to form a The site lies to the west of Halton on land of of constraints affecting the site, most based on its isolated location sustainable urban extension to Lancaster. Halton the A683. It is currently in agricultural use and notably landscape impacts and the lack of and the limited potential of village is located to the north but separated by a contains a farmstead in the SW corner of the infrastructure and services to serve the The site is being actively creating a sustainable urban narrow bridge. The site is likely to generate Land north of site. The site also contains an area of site. The feasibility and costs of providing promoted and is 647 Quernmore 16.52 Greenfield Undeliverable extension. The site's isolated significant car journeys which in turn may have RED RED GREEN A683 woodland and the River Lune Millenium Park the necessary connections to utilities and considered to be location is also likely to effect impacts on the local network and city centre cycle path which runs west to east. Denny the provision of community facilities available. its viability in terms of AQMA. The site is located just outside the Forest Beck Lane lies to the east and the M6 required to establish a sustainable location delivering the necessary of Bowland AONB and any development will be motorway to the west. raise significant issues over the sites infrastructure (utilities, restricted in order to avoid significant landscape viability. Await further information from community facilities etc). impacts. The site was found to be an the Council's consultants. Await further information. unsustainable location within the Council's Publication Sustainability Appraisal Report (January 2017). The site is physically isolated from the existing The site is considered to be urban area, in particular, other residential areas This is a large greenfield site extending to over available. The site is not and community facilities. This is exacerbated by This is a greenfield site located to the east 50 hectares in size, located to the east of considered to be suitable the location of the motorway which limits of Lancaster. However there are a number Lancaster and to the south of the A683. It is based on its isolated location opportunities for the site to form a sustainable of constraints affecting the site, most an undulating drumlin landscape bounded by and the limited potential of urban extension to Lancaster. The site is likely to notably its isolated location. The feasibility The site is being the M6 motorway to the west and Denny Beck creating a sustainable urban generate significant car journeys which in turn and costs of providing the necessary promoted by a developer Land south of 648 Quernmore Greenfield Undeliverable to the east with a ridge running north to extension. The site's isolated may have impacts on the local network and city connections to utilities and the provision and is assumed to be RED RED GREEN A683 south. There are significant areas of woodland location is also likely to effect centre AQMA. The site is located just outside of community facilities required to available. Await further within the site and a bridleway runs north to its viability in terms of (300m) the Forest of Bowland AONB and any establish a sustainable location raise information. south through the site. The boundary of the delivering the necessary development will be restricted in order to avoid significant issues over the sites viability. Forest of Bowland AONB lies just to the east of infrastructure (utilities, significant landscape impacts. The site was found Await further information from the the site. community facilities etc). to be an unsustainable location within the Council's consultants. Await further information. Council's Publication Sustainability Appraisal Report (January 2017). 647 648 Legend LPSA 647 LPSA 648 AONB (! Tree Preservation Order (points) Tree Preservation Order (polygons) Gas Pipelines Floodzone 3 Conservation Areas iN Mineral Safeguard areas 0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100025403. Kilometers Landscape, Townscape and Visual Field Survey Sheet Project Name : Lancaster City Council SHLAA Sites. Project Number : UA001453. Receptor Ref : Broad Location Site – UE02: East Lancaster on the land east of the M6 Date of Survey: 02/10/2015 Surveyor: A. Zorlutuna Sheet No.: 030 Assessment Type – Landscape 2014 SHLAA Map Ref. 22 Lancaster City Council - Local Character Type: 5 - 12 - Low Undulating 7 – Farmed 11 - Valley 13 - Drumlin Coastal Lowland Ridges Floodplain Field Drumlins Farmland 17 – 18 – Open 21 - 15 – Coastal 16 - Enclosed Coastal Limestone Plain Mosslands Coastal Marsh Fells Marsh Urban Landscape Type Lancaster City Council - Local Character Area (LCA) and Associations: 12a – 5i – West 7c – 12b – 11d - Lune Carnforth, Bowland Langthwaite Warton, Valley Galgate, Fringes Ridge Borwick Cockerham 13c – 12c – 13b – 15e- Forton, 16a – North Docker, Heysham - Bentham, Garstang, Fylde Kellet, Overton Clapham Catterill Mosses Lancaster 16f – 17b – 18e – Pilling 18d– Lune 21a - Leck Heysham Cockerham & Marshes Fell Moss Coast Cockerham, Urban Urban Urban Landscape Landscape – Landscape – - Historic Industrial Age Suburban Core (1100 (1800 to (1930’s to 1800) 1930) onwards) Hyder Consulting UK Ltd Page 1 Landscape and Visual Field Survey Sheets Landscape, Townscape and Visual Field Survey Sheet Project Name : Lancaster City Council SHLAA Sites. Project Number : UA001453. Receptor Ref : Broad Location Site – UE02: East Lancaster on the land east of the M6 Date of Survey: 02/10/2015 Surveyor: A. Zorlutuna Sheet No.: 030 Assessment Type – Landscape 2014 SHLAA Map Ref. 22 View west from A683 Parking Layby toward site UE02 in distance View south from south side of River Lune footpath / cycleway, showing intimate landscape character Hyder Consulting UK Ltd Page 2 Landscape and Visual Field Survey Sheets Landscape, Townscape and Visual Field Survey Sheet Project Name : Lancaster City Council SHLAA Sites. Project Number : UA001453. Receptor Ref : Broad Location Site – UE02: East Lancaster on the land east of the M6 Date of Survey: 02/10/2015 Surveyor: A. Zorlutuna Sheet No.: 030 Assessment Type – Landscape 2014 SHLAA Map Ref. 22 Key Landscape Elements Vegetation Woodland / Topography Farming Heritage Built Form Hydrology Corridor Type Trees Farm Freshwater Flat Deciduous Pasture Vernacular Building / Drained Motorway Mosses Farmstead Low Lying Wetland Coniferous Damp Pasture Designed Estate Settlement Stream Trunk Road Coastal Improved Ancient Plain Mixed Tourism Open Water Road Marsh Pasture Enclosure Limestone Railway / Broad Valley Saltmarsh Shelterbelt Medieval Pylon Coastal Pasture WCML Coastal / Hedgerow Parliamentary Natural Reeds Hedgerow Masts Canal Drumlin Field Tree Enclosure Pond Limestone Limestone Modern Industry / Artificial Wet Woodland Fence Lane Pavement Grassland Enclosure Mill Pond Wind Gently Rolling Marsh Tree Clump Dry Stone Wall Prehistoric Site Lake / Mere Green Lane Turbine Hill top Water Power Crag Isolated Tree Field Ditch Enclosure / Fort Tidal Bridleway Meadow Station / Castle Caravan / Scarp / Cliff Saltmarsh Scrub Strip Field Religious Estuary Footpath Camping Alder / Willow Monument / Rolling Sand Dune Laid Hedgerow Golf Course Raised Mire Cycle Route Carr Tower Ridge and CROW Glacial Erratic Foreshore Forestry Transitional Furrow Field Brownfield Fishing Lake Access System Land Yew Hall / Estate / Quarry / Country High Fell Fen Mosaic Reservoir Woodland Relict Parkland Extraction Park Domed Common Foothill Coppiced Intensive Lime Kiln Ribbon Floodplain Moss Land Distinctive Moorland Wooded Slope Land Modern Dendritic Picnic Spots Ridgeline Reclamation Residential Features Reef Knoll Mossland Campus Hyder Consulting UK Ltd Page 3 Landscape and Visual Field Survey Sheets Landscape, Townscape and Visual Field Survey Sheet Project Name : Lancaster City Council SHLAA Sites. Project Number : UA001453. Receptor Ref : Broad Location Site – UE02: East Lancaster on the land east of the M6 Date of Survey: 02/10/2015 Surveyor: A. Zorlutuna Sheet No.: 030 Assessment Type – Landscape 2014 SHLAA Map Ref. 22 Key Townscape Elements Topography Layout Vegetation Heritage Built Form Hydrology Corridor Flat Modern Deciduous