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Landscape & Visual Appraisal Land at Upavon, Wiltshire Landscape & Visual Appraisal land at Upavon, Wiltshire Prepared on behalf of Mr Graham Andrews Prepared by DPDS Consulting Group Old Bank House 5 Devizes Road Old Town Swindon Wiltshire SN1 4BJ PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 Contents Page No 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 SITE CONTEXT 2 3.0 SITE DESCRIPTION & DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS 4 4.0 VISUAL APPRAISAL 6 5.0 CONCLUSIONS 8 Appendices Photo views A - I View Locations Plan, Drwg. No. C11719.14.901 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 DPDS Architecture is instructed by Mr G Andrews to prepare this appraisal report with regard to a planning application for residential development. The appraisal has been carried out by Patrick Griffiths, a well-experienced Chartered Landscape Architect. 1.2 Visits to the site and surrounding area were made during February 2012 and early April 2014, with a number of photos recorded on each occasion. The initial visit enabled consideration of the site’s features and context, in order to facilitate inputs to the illustrative master plan proposals. 1.3 The appraisal has been based upon the principles recommended in Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, (third edition, Landscape Institute and Institute of Environmental Assessment 2013). However the scope and extent of the study has been adapted to suit the location and scale of the proposed development, as is advised in that publication, for the purpose of carrying out landscape appraisals. Landscape &Visual Assessment Land at Upavon, Wiltshire 1 PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 2.0 SITE CONTEXT 2.1 The site lies at the northern edge of Upavon, adjacent to the A342, which runs north- westwards from Upavon towards Rushall. In terms of broad landscape character, the Countryside Agency’s Character of England mapping (Volume 8, South West, published in 1999) identifies the area surrounding Upavon as within character area 132, - Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs. This area is generally notable for its extensive open, rolling chalk plateau and large scale arable fields. It contains a large number of small settlements, often located along the valleys, with Upavon located alongside the River Avon which flows southwards to Salisbury. 2.2 At the County level, the Wiltshire Landscape Character Assessment of 2005, indicates Upavon’s northern edge as falling within the Vale of Pewsey Character Area (area 15a) which is the only character area making up the Greensand Vale Landscape type. Key characteristics include description of the area as a broad, low lying vale, contained between the chalk uplands to either side, and with a weak hedgerow structure and few hedgerow trees. It is noted as a settled landscape with compact small towns, clustered villages, hamlets and many dispersed residential and farm buildings. 2.3 The above assessment concluded the Greensand Vale to be in moderate condition and of moderate strength of character. It refers to the effects of urbanisation of rural roads and lanes and to the visual influence of detractors including unsympathetic modern development on the edges of settlements, alongside the loss of hedgerows and tree cover, as contributory factors to a weakening of rural character. The overall strategy is to conserve and improve the rural character and maintain the pattern of discrete small villages set within a quiet, agricultural landscape. 2.4 An earlier landscape character assessment was prepared for the (former) Kennet District Council in 1998. This divided the district into eleven different character areas, locating Upavon at the northern edge of the Salisbury Avon Valley area. This is a narrow character area separating the west and east parts of the Salisbury Plain area and with the Vale of Pewsey character area lying immediately to the north of Upavon. The latter area is again described as a broad, low-lying landscape between the main Landscape &Visual Assessment Land at Upavon, Wiltshire 2 PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 upland blocks of the Marlborough Downs to the north and the Salisbury Plain to the south. 2.5 Owing to the site’s setting at the northern edge of the existing settlement and the local topography around Upavon, it is principally the Vale of Pewsey – in either of these assessments, from which the proposed development would be potentially visible. The Kennet assessment also provides Landscape Guidelines and those associated with this character area list a number of landscape enhancement priorities, including of particular reference to the site: • encourage repair, replanting and widespread extension of hedgerow network ... • in more open vale floor areas, introduce new tree planting along watercourses and in lines and groups ... • improve landscape structure and land management on the fringes of settlements and along main roads, to mitigate adverse impacts on the landscape. • establish strong landscape structure to absorb existing or new development on the fringes of urban areas and settlements. 2.6 Subsequent to the above assessment the Kennet District Council also prepared the Kennet Landscape Conservation Strategy in 2004, which was adopted as Supplementary Guidance to the district local plan published in 2005. This document identified the Vale of Pewsey as a landscape falling within the “repair” category for the purposes of the enhancement strategy. 2.7 Unlike most of the Vale of Pewsey area, Upavon is not within the North Wessex Downs AONB, which extends to include the village of Rushall, - some 0.5km north of the site, at the AONB’s southernmost edge. The Cranbome Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB lies some distance further from the site to the south-west, - beyond the intervening Salisbury Plain. Landscape &Visual Assessment Land at Upavon, Wiltshire 3 PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 3.0 SITE DESCRIPTION & DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS 3.1 The site extends to an area of some 2.2ha. situated at the immediate northern edge of Upavon, and falls into two different parts in terms of land use and appearance. The larger western part is currently disused since cessation of a former poultry farming business. Four large poultry-rearing sheds remain on the land, together with the associated feed silos and a large barn/outbuildings, etc. of the previous use. At its western edge, adjacent the A342 is an existing bungalow and its garden area. The poultry farm part of this site is partially contained along its northern edge by a row of semi-mature trees, - mainly tall conifers of some 9 to 11 metres in height, interspersed with a few other trees including Horse Chestnuts. Beyond this tree line is an abrupt bank down to the adjoining open, arable field to the north. A native hedge bounds most of the site alongside the A342, but to the north the road is open to the large field to the east. 3.2 The eastern part of the site is an open field contained to the east by the walled village cemetery and with a recently planted native hedge separating it from the larger open field to the north. A public footpath runs along the site’s southern edge, on an east- west alignment, beyond which are the fenced rear gardens of a number of dwellings, predominantly bungalows forming the northern edge of the settlement. The land slopes down gently to the north and is currently accessed directly from the A342 near its south-west corner. 3.3 In addition to the public footpath noted above, a further public footpath known as ‘Ham Path’ crosses the open field to the north of the site, running from the eastern corner of the cemetery through to the A342 on a south-east to north-west alignment. Other public rights of way in the area are indicated on plan C11719.14.901. 3.4 Outline proposals for development have evolved in conjunction with the preliminary landscape appraisal work and following local public consultation. The illustrative masterplan indicates a possible layout for a development of some 45 houses, with a new vehicular access from the A342 at the site’s north-west corner. All existing buildings, including the bungalow presently on the site will be removed, and the public footpath route is maintained on its current alignment. Landscape &Visual Assessment Land at Upavon, Wiltshire 4 PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 3.5 In landscape terms a key element of the scheme is the establishment of a strong, well-treed northern boundary, including retention of most of the existing trees along the northern edge of the site, together with the provision of space for substantial new planting of native hedgerows and trees to reinforce this edge of the village, - in accordance with objectives of the Landscape Guidelines noted above. Development towards the north of the site would be of predominantly larger plots, enabling further tree planting within rear gardens and this edge of the site is also punctuated by space for a balancing pond. Additionally, an area of open space is retained alongside the footpath route to enable further tree planting on the higher part of the site and to improve the amenity of the present confined-line of this footpath. Landscape &Visual Assessment Land at Upavon, Wiltshire 5 PMG/sh/C11719 April 2014 4.0 VISUAL APPRAISAL 4.1 The site has been examined from a range of potential viewpoints within the surrounding area, in particular from the public rights of way to the north of the village and from the approach to Upavon from the north along the A342 and A345. To the south of Rushall, the A342 is lined by a hedgerow along its eastern side, which coupled with the slightly curving alignment of the road, precludes views towards the site until reaching around 500 metres north of the site. At this point the A342 is adjoined by a minor road/byway to the west, leading to Rushall Hill, and by a bridleway to its east side which runs eastwards to connect with the A345.
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