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Key facts Landscape Analysis Introduction & Summary Description Opportunities and data change

Summary National Character Area 117 AppendixAvon Vales 3 Lower Compton Materials Recovery109 Facility, Calne, Wiltshire Note: In most instances, the NCA boundary is not 108 This is an undulating, low-lying landscape of mixed, predominantly pastoralprecisely mapped andLess should than be considered 5 per cent as a of the land here is designated for anyUpper purpose. Thames This 5 per agriculture and small limestone-built towns, cut by the (Bristol) River Avonzone of transition betweencent is NCAs. mostly accounted for by the Cotswolds Area of OutstandingClay Vales Natural Legend and its tributaries, and surrounded to the west, south and east by higher land.NCA 117 boundaryBeauty (AONB) in the north-west and the 17 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, a Woodlands lie on the steeper slopes and by watercourses, and in a few otherOther NCA boundaryslight majority of which107 are of geological interest. The NCA is crossed by a wide Site Location areas within a structured farmland of medium to large fields and now stragglyArea outside NCAcommunications 117 corridorCotswolds running broadly from east to west; most of the major Area of Outstanding hedgerows. It is more than 80 per cent agricultural (both arable and pasture, Natural Beautysettlements are clustered along this corridor. This was initially reliant on water with some localised nurseries and market gardening) and less than 10 per cent routes, namely the (Bristol) River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal, as well as 0 10km urban, but from the late 20th century onwards it has been subject to much the Great West Road, now the A4. Now the M4 motorway and Isambard Kingdom development. There is evidence of Saxon occupation in the many ‘–ham’ place 118 Brunel’s Great Western Railway, link London and the West Country and have names, and there are prehistoric hill forts, with extensive areas of ridge andBristol, Avonspread wide the travel-to-work net. 116 Valleys & Cotswolds Berkshire & furrow that indicate medieval arable cultivation. This area still reveals its past Ridges Marlborough role in broadcloth production and trade in its fine late medieval churches and This area can be easily overlooked, surrounded as it is by the high-qualityDowns merchants’ houses in market towns and in its many stream-side mills. Smaller designated landscapes of Cotswolds AONB and North Wessex Downs AONB, but settlements and farmsteads are clustered along streams and lesser rivers, linked it has a restful and undramatic charm of its own. North Wessex by narrow winding lanes. Ancient patterns of flood meadows and drainage Downs ditches dominate these valley floors, with their wet grasslands and woodlands. Flooding affects many communities in this National Character Area (NCA), and the opportunities to restore wetland habitats within river corridors to alleviate problems with water flow and to aid climate change mitigation will be important ecosystem services here, to add to food provision and cultural services.

Large historic parks and mansions, such as Bowood and Lacock, which often 132 still feature major woodlands, enrich the landscape and historical context and Salisbury Plain & West Wiltshire provide much local recreational resource, to the benefit of the local economy. Downs The same can be said of the towns such as Malmesbury and Frome, with their historic and attractive town centres. 141 133 Mendip Hills Blackmoor Vale & Vale of Wardour Figure 3.5 – Extract from NationalCranborne Landscape Chase Character & Area Map 117: Avon Vales (Natural , 2014) West Wiltshire Downs Click map to enlarge; click again to reduce.

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Summary Cotswolds National Character Area 116 107 Berkshire & Marlborough Cotswolds Vast arable fields stretch across the sparsely settled, rolling Chalk hills of the In the valleys, woodlands are found on steep slopes, and settlements clusterDowns Appendix 3 Lower ComptonNote: In most Materials instances, the NCA Recovery boundary is not Facility, Calne, Wiltshire Berkshire and Marlborough Downs National Character Area (NCA). There are along the valley bottoms. Marlborough and Hungerfordprecisely sit mapped beside and should the be River considered as a extensive views from the escarpment in particular, punctuated by landmarks Kennet. The Kennet catchment feeds the Thames and, like otherzone of watercourses transition between NCAs. in including chalk-cut horse figures, beech clumps and ancient monuments. Historic the Downs, is a chalk river fed by groundwater in the chalk aquifer. The rivers and Legend routeways, including the Ridgeway National Trail, provide public access across this aquifer are affected by abstraction and pollution. Wetlands support Desmoulin’s Site Location 108 landscape. Writers and artists have been inspired by this landscape, including EricUpper Thameswhorl snail in the Kennet109 and Lambourn Floodplain SAC and extensive wet Ravilious and Richard Jefferies, while monuments around Avebury have attractedClay Valeswoodland lies inMidvale the Kennet Valley Alderwoods SAC. Meadow and pasture110 in Ridge Chilterns historians and antiquarians such as John Aubrey. Avebury stone circle is a popular the valleys combine with arable farming and small woods to create a mixed visitor destination and part of a World Heritage Site and there are numerous other agricultural landscape, defined by hedgerow boundaries. Scheduled Monuments and heritage features across this landscape. Heritage 118 features are at risk from damage by cultivation and animal burrowing. Bristol, Avon Valleys & Ridges Farmland habitat supports brown hare, harvest mouse, rare arable plants and North Wessex Downs farmland birds including stone curlew. Along the escarpment and steep slopes, 129 limited tracts of hanging woodlands and species-rich chalk grassland can be Thames Basin Heaths found. Open access downland offers the public the opportunity to see species such as the skylark and Adonis blue butterfly. At Hackpen Hill and Pewsey Downs Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) early gentian can be found. Downland at Fyfield displays sarsen stone ‘trains’ lying largely undisturbed since the Quaternary glaciations. 130 NCA 116 boundary Hampshire Other NCA boundary Downs Area outside NCA 116 Area of Outstanding 132 Natural Beauty Salisbury Plain & West Wiltshire 0 10km Downs Mapping © copyright Lovell Johns Limited. Figure 3.6 – Extract from National Landscape Character Area Map 116: Berkshire and Marlborough Downs Contains(Natural Ordnance England, Survey 2013) data © Crown copyright and database right 2010. Click map to enlarge;Natural England click again OS licence tonumber reduce. 100022021

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Figure 3.9 – Plan showing the existing site landform (fabrik, 2014) Appendix 3 Lower Compton Materials Recovery Facility, Calne, Wiltshire

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Photographic Survey - Within the Application Site

Photograph – Viewpoint 1 View looking west over the application site from the landscape bund. The MRF building sits below the visual horizon provided by the trees beyond the application site. The rest of the site operations also sit below the visual horizon of the restored landscape beyond.

Photograph – Viewpoint 2 Photograph – Viewpoint 3 View looking north along the western face of the bund. The lighting View looking south-west across the southern section of the application site from the landscape columns are set below the height of the bund. bund. The MRF building from this location forms part of the visual horizon. Appendix 3 Lower Compton Materials Recovery Facility, Calne, Wiltshire

Photographic Survey - Within the Application Site

Photograph – Viewpoint 4 View looking north-west across the southern part of the application site from the landscape bund. Again, the MRF building forms part of the visual horizon from this location.

Photograph – Viewpoint 5 Photograph – Viewpoint 6 View looking north-east towards the MRF building from the site entrance. View looking south from the Weighbridge.