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Stowupland Landscape Appraisal NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2016 - 2036 SNP Supporting Document 1: Landscape Appraisal Alison Farmer Associates, January 2017 Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan Landscape Appraisal Final Report January 2017 Alison Farmer Associates 29 Montague Road Cambridge CB4 1BU 01223 461444 [email protected] www.alisonfarmer.co.uk 2 Contents 1: Introduction .................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................. 3 1.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Scope of Work ......................................................................................................... 4 1.4 The Neighbourhood Plan and Policy Background .................................................... 4 1.5 Methodology and Approach ..................................................................................... 4 2: The Evolution of the Parish ........................................................................................... 6 2.1 The Parish ............................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Stowupland and Saxham Street .............................................................................. 6 2.3 Surrounding Historic Landscape Patterns................................................................ 9 2.4 Conclusions ............................................................................................................. 9 3: Landscape Character .................................................................................................. 11 3.1 Suffolk County LCA ............................................................................................... 11 3.2 Community Landscape Assessment ...................................................................... 13 3.3 Community Questionnaire ..................................................................................... 13 4: Existing Design Guidance ........................................................................................... 15 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 15 4.2 The Joint Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Council Landscape Guidance ............. 15 4.3 The Suffolk Design Guide ...................................................................................... 15 4.4 Conclusions ........................................................................................................... 16 5: Evaluation..................................................................................................................... 17 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 17 5.2 Key Views and Landmarks .................................................................................... 17 5.3 Village Character Areas ......................................................................................... 18 5.4 Landscape Character Areas .................................................................................. 21 5.5 Conclusions ........................................................................................................... 27 6: Vision for Stowupland ................................................................................................. 28 6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 28 6.2 Special Qualities to Retain .................................................................................... 28 6.3 Environmental Initiatives ........................................................................................ 29 6.4 Opportunities for Growth ....................................................................................... 30 Appendix 1: Extract from Suffolk Landscape Character Assessment Appendix 2: Extract from Joint Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Council Landscape Guidance August 2015 Appendix 3: Extract from Suffolk Design Guide, Revised 2000 Appendix 4: Drawings 1 and 2 Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan: Landscape Appraisal Final Report January 2017 3 1: Introduction 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Alison Farmer Associates was appointed by Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan Group to undertake a landscape appraisal of the Parish of Stowupland in order to provide a robust evidence base to support the development of policy within the emerging Neighbourhood Plan. 1.1.2 Stowupland is a small Parish including the village of Stowupland and the linear dispersed settlement of Saxham Street and is located to the northeast of Stowmarket and the A14. Historically it has comprised a loose, dispersed pattern of dwellings and farmsteads with a strongly rural character. Overtime Stowupland village has grown into a more substantial village in the 20th century with the introduction of new housing estates This coupled with the more recent growth of Stowmarket town means that on its southern fringes the village of Stowupland struggles to retain its sense of separate identity. Away from Stowmarket, the Parish relates strongly to its landscape setting of adjacent river valleys and historic field enclosures. 1.1.3 The landscape appraisal has sought to identify the character and qualities of Stowupland Parish including its landscape and village character, key views and valued characteristics and spaces. The local landscape and village character areas are used as a framework for assessing the sensitivity of the area to accommodate new housing growth but also to identify opportunities for environmental initiatives which seek to enhance local identity and settlement distinctiveness where it has become eroded. The result is a vision for the Parish which identifies a range of opportunities that can be used as an evidence base to inform the development of policy within the emerging Neighbourhood Plan. A key element of this approach is to consider the Parish holistically ensuring that where there may be opportunities for new housing, such development supports existing communities in achieving the conservation of valued assets and enhancement of the local environment. 1.2 Objectives 1.2.1 The key objective of the study is to provide a robust understanding of the character and qualities of the Parish and to evaluate Stowupland as a whole and the built environment of the village in particular, to determine opportunities for housing development from a landscape perspective and environmental initiatives which help reinforce sense of place. This assessment therefore considers the historic evolution of the Parish, present day landscape and village character and sensitivity and capacity to absorb change and growth without adverse effects on what is valued. Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan: Landscape Appraisal Final Report January 2017 4 1.3 Scope of Work 1.3.1 The assessment considers all the land within the Parish of Stowupland. Where relevant, reference has also been made to land beyond the Parish where there is strong intervisibility such that the wider landscape forms a setting to the Parish, bolstering its sense of place and /or is important in outward or inward views. 1.4 The Neighbourhood Plan and Policy Background 1.4.1 In November 2014, the Parish Council submitted a Neighbourhood Development Plan Area Designation Application to define the boundary of their Neighbourhood Plan area. The publication period began on 12th December 2014 and closed on 30th January 2015. Under the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, Mid Suffolk District Council confirmed the designated Neighbourhood Plan Area on 3rd February 2015. 1.4.2 The Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group was set up early in 2015. One of its first tasks was to consult local residents and businesses to seek their views on how much housing, employment, shops etc. are needed in the future. A Workshop and Village Consultation event took place in July 2015 and September 2015 respectively, and a Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaire was launched in December 2015. 1.4.3 More recently the committee, along with a number of volunteers from the community, have undertaken a landscape character assessment of the Parish and divided it into 11 discrete character areas. This work has been reviewed and used as a basis of the landscape appraisal. 1.5 Methodology and Approach 1.5.1 This assessment has been carried out in accordance with Guidelines on Landscape Character Assessment1 and Topic Paper 6: Techniques and Criteria for Judging Capacity and Sensitivity2. The approach has included a client meeting and familiarisation site visit, desk study and further detailed site assessment in December 2016. 1.5.2 The landscape and village areas defined as part of the baseline were used to inform an assessment of sensitivity and capacity. This is because they reflect local character variations and because the pattern of settlement in the Parish is often dispersed. Nevertheless where character areas abut existing built development i.e. 1 Landscape Character Assessment Guidance for England and Scotland (2002) The Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage and An Approach to Landscape Character Assessment (2014) Natural England. 2 Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage 2004 Stowupland Neighbourhood Plan: Landscape Appraisal Final
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