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The Cefn Cefn Mawr.Pdf FORWARD All the recommendations made in this document for inclusion in the WCBC LDP2 are for the betterment of our community of The Cefn and Cefn Mawr at the Central section of the Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site. The picture opposite is an impression of what the Plas Kynaston Canal and Marina would look like with Open Park Land on one side and an appropriate housing development on the other. This would turn the former brown field Monsanto site in Cefn Mawr around for everyone in the county of Wrexham. By the PKC Group LDP2 - THE CEFN & CEFN MAWR LDP2 - THE CEFN & CEFN MAWR Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Public Support ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Communication ...................................................................................................................................... 6 LDP2 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 7 LDP2 Objectives & PKC Group Responses ............................................................................................. 7 The Cefn & Cefn Mawr and Wrexham County .................................................................................... 10 Key Issues and Drivers for the LDP2 & Responses .............................................................................. 13 LDP Strategic Growth and Spatial Options .......................................................................................... 15 Primary Key Settlement and Local Service Centres Option 3 ............................................................. 16 Funding ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Developer Contributions ...................................................................................................................... 18 Settlement Hierarchy and Development Potential ............................................................................. 20 Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report .............................................................................................. 23 Natural Environment Topic 1 ............................................................................................................... 26 Key Outcomes ................................................................................................................................... 26 Planning Policy Wales edition 6 (PPW 2014) .................................................................................... 27 Green Belt: ........................................................................................................................................ 29 Technical Advice Note 5: Nature Conservation and Planning (2009) ............................................... 29 Woodland for Wales (2011) .............................................................................................................. 30 Climate Change: ................................................................................................................................ 30 Biodiversity and Conservation .......................................................................................................... 31 Designated Habitats in the County of Wrexham .............................................................................. 31 River Dee and Bala Lake SAC ............................................................................................................. 32 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the County of Wrexham .......................................................... 33 Habitat Connectivity, Green Infrastructure and Wildlife Corridors .................................................. 33 Trees .................................................................................................................................................. 34 Trees – Ancient, Veteran & Notable. ................................................................................................ 35 Trees – Ancient Woodland ................................................................................................................ 35 Water Resources ............................................................................................................................... 36 Water Framework Directive, River Basin Districts & River Basin Management Plans ..................... 36 Cefn Mawr and Watkins Well ........................................................................................................... 37 Water Framework Directive and Chemical Contamination .............................................................. 38 Reasons for Failure for Water Bodies in Wrexham .......................................................................... 39 www.plaskynastoncanalgroup.org Page 1 of 100 LDP2 - THE CEFN & CEFN MAWR Flood Risk .......................................................................................................................................... 40 River Habitat Survey ......................................................................................................................... 41 Salmon .............................................................................................................................................. 41 Air Quality ......................................................................................................................................... 42 Nitrogen Oxides (NO and NO2) ......................................................................................................... 42 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation: Air Quality ............................................................................. 43 Agricultural Land ............................................................................................................................... 43 Soil Function ...................................................................................................................................... 44 Derelict land ...................................................................................................................................... 44 Soil - Land with Contamination ......................................................................................................... 44 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ................................................................................................. 46 Special Landscape Areas & Green Networks .................................................................................... 47 Noise ................................................................................................................................................. 48 Built and Historic Environment Topic 2 ............................................................................................... 49 Planning for Sustainable Buildings .................................................................................................... 49 Historic Environment - Planning Policy Wales Edition 5 (2012) ....................................................... 49 Protection of World Heritage Sites (DCLG: 2009) ............................................................................. 50 Destination Management Plan 2012-2017 (WCBC 2012) ................................................................. 50 Landscape & Design .......................................................................................................................... 51 Cultural and Historic Heritage ........................................................................................................... 52 Conservation Areas ........................................................................................................................... 53 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage Site ..................................................................... 56 Heritage Assets ................................................................................................................................. 59 Main Sustainability Issues Identified ................................................................................................ 59 Community Wellbeing and Cohesion Topic 3...................................................................................... 61 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC 1990) ............................................. 61 Our Healthy Future: Welsh Government (2009) .............................................................................. 61 Planning Policy Wales edition 6 (2014) ............................................................................................. 61 Climbing Higher – WG Strategy for Sport & Physical Activity (2005) ............................................... 61 Technical Advice Note 16: Sport, Recreation and Open Space (January 2009) ................................ 62 Technical Advice Note 20: Planning and the Welsh Language (2013) .............................................. 62 Wrexham County Borough Council Play Sufficiency Assessment 2013 ............................................ 62 Accessible Natural Greenspaces & Green Networks .......................................................................
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