DOCSLIB.ORG

Landscape Sensitivity to Wind and Solar Energy Development in Purbeck Ditrict Agenda Supplem

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Landscape Sensitivity to Wind and Solar Energy Development in Purbeck Ditrict Agenda Supplem LOCAL PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE 27 January 2015 at 7.00 pm At the above stated meeting the attached documents were tabled for the following items: 12. Solar Farm Proposals in the District (Pages 1 - 188) This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 12 Landscape Sensitivity to Wind and Solar Energy Development in Purbeck District Prepared by LUC April 2014 Planning & EIA LUC LONDON Offices also in: Land Use Consultants Ltd Design 43 Chalton Street Bristol Registered in England Registered number: 2549296 Landscape Planning London NW1 1JD Glasgow Registered Office: Landscape Management T 020 7383 5784 Edinburgh 43 Chalton Street Ecology F 020 7383 4798 London NW1 1JD LUC uses 100% recycled paper Mapping & Visualisation [email protected] FS 566056 EMS 566057 Page 1 Agenda Item 12 Contents Project Title: Landscape Sensitivity to Wind and Solar Energy Development in Purbeck District Client: Purbeck District Council Version Date Version Prepared Checked Approved Details by by by Principal 1.0 31.01.14 Draft report RS SP KA issued 2.0 23.04.14 Final report RS KA KA issued 2 Page 2 Agenda Item 12 Contents 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 6 Background and Scope ............................................................................................... 6 Usage ...................................................................................................................... 7 Landscape Sensitivity ................................................................................................. 8 Basis of Assessment ................................................................................................... 8 Limitations of the Assessment ..................................................................................... 9 Document Structure ................................................................................................... 9 2 Characteristics of Wind Energy Development ...................................................... 10 Components of Development ..................................................................................... 10 Location, Size and Arrangement ................................................................................ 10 Appearance ............................................................................................................ 11 Permanence ............................................................................................................ 11 Effect on Existing Landscape Elements ........................................................................ 12 Effect on Landscape Characteristics ............................................................................ 12 Effect on Landscape Value ........................................................................................ 12 Development Trends in Wind Energy .......................................................................... 13 3 Characteristics of Solar Energy Development ...................................................... 14 Components of Development ..................................................................................... 14 Location, Size and Arrangement ................................................................................ 14 Appearance ............................................................................................................ 15 Permanence ............................................................................................................ 16 Effect on Existing Landscape Elements ........................................................................ 17 Effect on Landscape Characteristics ............................................................................ 17 Effect on Landscape Value ........................................................................................ 18 Development Trends in Field Scale Solar PV Energy ...................................................... 18 4 Baseline Landscape Character ............................................................................. 19 Landscape Character Types and Areas ........................................................................ 19 Statutory Designations ............................................................................................. 21 5 Methodology ........................................................................................................ 23 Components of Landscape Sensitivity ......................................................................... 23 Sensitivity Assessment Process .................................................................................. 23 6 Criteria for Assessment of Sensitivity .................................................................. 26 Criteria for Assessment of Sensitivity to Wind Energy Development ................................ 26 Wind Energy Development Typologies ........................................................................ 28 3 Page 3 Agenda Item 12 Criteria for Assessment of Sensitivity to Solar PV Development ...................................... 29 Solar PV Development Typologies .............................................................................. 31 7 Assessment of Sensitivity to Wind and Solar PV Energy Development in Purbeck33 Using the assessment for a specific location or area ...................................................... 33 Landscape character type: Limestone Plateau .............................................................. 37 Landscape character area: Purbeck Plateau ................................................................................................ 40 Landscape character type: Clay Valley ........................................................................ 43 Landscape character area: Corfe Valley ...................................................................................................... 46 Landscape character area: Kimmeridge Valley ............................................................................................ 50 Landscape character type: Chalk Ridge/Escarpment ..................................................... 53 Landscape character area: Purbeck Ridge ................................................................................................... 56 Landscape character area: South Dorset Escarpment ................................................................................... 59 Landscape character type: Chalk Valley & Downland ..................................................... 62 Landscape character area: Bloxworth/Charborough Downs ........................................................................... 65 Landscape character area: South Bere Regis Downs .................................................................................... 68 Landscape character area: Puddletown/Affpuddle Downs .............................................................................. 71 Landscape character area: Chaldon Downs (part) ........................................................................................ 74 Landscape character area: South Dorset Downs (part) ................................................................................. 77 Landscape character type: Open Chalk Downland ......................................................... 80 Landscape character area: Chaldon Downs (part) ........................................................................................ 83 Landscape character area: South Dorset Downs (part) ................................................................................. 87 Landscape character area: North Bere Regis Downs .................................................................................... 90 Landscape character type: Valley Pasture .................................................................... 93 Landscape character area: Mid Frome Valley .............................................................................................. 96 Landscape character area: Frome Valley .................................................................................................... 99 Landscape character area: Mid Piddle Valley ............................................................................................. 102 Landscape character area: Lower Piddle Valley ......................................................................................... 105 Landscape character area: Sherford Valley ............................................................................................... 108 Landscape character type: Chalk River Valley Floor .................................................... 111 Landscape character area: Bere Stream Valley.......................................................................................... 114 Landscape character type: Ridge and Vale ................................................................. 117 Landscape character area: Osmington Ridge and Vale ............................................................................... 119 Landscape character type: Rolling Wooded Pasture ..................................................... 122 Landscape character area: Morden-Lytchett.............................................................................................. 124 Landscape character area: Lulworth ........................................................................................................ 127 Landscape character area: Rempstone
Load more

Recommended publications
  • East Chaldon Settlement Boundary Review Background Paper – January 2015
    This document contains two parts: Part A is specific to East Chaldon, showing the Council’s proposed amendments to the settlement boundary. Part B is an appendix common to all of the settlement boundary reviews and provides the Council’s approach to the review. This sets out the background to the district-wide settlement boundary review, for example discussing why the Council supports using settlement boundaries, and provides criteria for what should or should not be included within a settlement boundary. The Council is inviting comments on both parts of this document as part of the Partial Review Issues and Options Consultation which runs from 29 January to 13 March 2015. The Council will update this document after every consultation stage. Contents Part A: Assessment ........................................................................................ 4 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 4 Maps of the existing and proposed settlement boundary .............................................. 5 Table of proposed changes to the settlement boundary ............................................... 6 Part B: Approach ............................................................................................. 7 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 7 What are settlement boundaries? ....................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Local Plan Review Consultation Update
    Item 20 Annual Council Meeting – 8 May 2018 Local plan review consultation update 1. Purpose of report To report the outcomes of the local plan review consultation. 2. Key issues 2.1 The Council undertook a consultation about its local plan development between January and March this year. The purpose of the consultation was to get people’s views on a number of possible sites, presented together in three options, for meeting the remaining need to provide 1,700 homes over the plan period. The Council also asked for people’s views on a number of new policies relating to second homes, affordable homes and a new small sites policy. 2.2 The Council commissioned Public Perspectives, an independent research and consultation organisation, to support the design and delivery of the consultation and produce an independent report of the consultation results. Public Perspectives’ report is attached in Appendix 1. 2.3 This report summarises the results of the consultation on the potential development sites and also proposed new policies on second homes, affordable homes and a small sites policy. The Council will take the results from the consultation into account when preparing the new Local Plan. The new Local Plan will be published for the statutory 6 week period for representations in relation to soundness against the tests set out in the national planning policy framework towards the end of 2018 before it is submitted for examination. 3. Recommendation The Local Plan Working Group and officers take account of the conclusions of the consultation report in drafting the pre-submission draft of the local plan.
    [Show full text]
  • Moths of Poole Harbour Species List
    Moths of Poole Harbour is a project of Birds of Poole Harbour Moths of Poole Harbour Species List Birds of Poole Harbour & Moths of Poole Harbour recording area The Moths of Poole Harbour Project The ‘Moths of Poole Harbour’ project (MoPH) was established in 2017 to gain knowledge of moth species occurring in Poole Harbour, Dorset, their distribution, abundance and to some extent, their habitat requirements. The study area uses the same boundaries as the Birds of Poole Harbour (BoPH) project. Abigail Gibbs and Chris Thain, previous Wardens on Brownsea Island for Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), were invited by BoPH to undertake a study of moths in the Poole Harbour recording area. This is an area of some 175 square kilometres stretching from Corfe Castle in the south to Canford Heath in the north of the conurbation and west as far as Wareham. 4 moth traps were purchased for the project; 3 Mercury Vapour (MV) Robinson traps with 50m extension cables and one Actinic, Ultra-violet (UV) portable Heath trap running from a rechargeable battery. This was the capability that was deployed on most of the ensuing 327 nights of trapping. Locations were selected using a number of criteria: Habitat, accessibility, existing knowledge (previously well-recorded sites were generally not included), potential for repeat visits, site security and potential for public engagement. Field work commenced from late July 2017 and continued until October. Generally, in the years 2018 – 2020 trapping field work began in March/ April and ran on until late October or early November, stopping at the first frost.
    [Show full text]
  • 135. Dorset Heaths Area Profile: Supporting Documents
    National Character 135. Dorset Heaths Area profile: Supporting documents www.naturalengland.org.uk 1 National Character 135. Dorset Heaths Area profile: Supporting documents Introduction National Character Areas map As part of Natural England’s responsibilities as set out in the Natural Environment White Paper,1 Biodiversity 20202 and the European Landscape Convention,3 we are revising profiles for England’s 159 National Character Areas North (NCAs). These are areas that share similar landscape characteristics, and which East follow natural lines in the landscape rather than administrative boundaries, making them a good decision-making framework for the natural environment. Yorkshire & The North Humber NCA profiles are guidance documents which can help communities to inform West their decision-making about the places that they live in and care for. The information they contain will support the planning of conservation initiatives at a East landscape scale, inform the delivery of Nature Improvement Areas and encourage Midlands broader partnership working through Local Nature Partnerships. The profiles will West also help to inform choices about how land is managed and can change. Midlands East of Each profile includes a description of the natural and cultural features England that shape our landscapes, how the landscape has changed over time, the current key drivers for ongoing change, and a broad analysis of each London area’s characteristics and ecosystem services. Statements of Environmental South East Opportunity (SEOs) are suggested, which draw on this integrated information. South West The SEOs offer guidance on the critical issues, which could help to achieve sustainable growth and a more secure environmental future.
    [Show full text]
  • Memorials of Old Dorset
    :<X> CM \CO = (7> ICO = C0 = 00 [>• CO " I Hfek^M, Memorials of the Counties of England General Editor : Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A. Memorials of Old Dorset ?45H xr» MEMORIALS OF OLD DORSET EDITED BY THOMAS PERKINS, M.A. Late Rector of Turnworth, Dorset Author of " Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory" ' " Bath and Malmesbury Abbeys" Romsey Abbey" b*c. AND HERBERT PENTIN, M.A. Vicar of Milton Abbey, Dorset Vice-President, Hon. Secretary, and Editor of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club With many Illustrations LONDON BEMROSE & SONS LIMITED, 4 SNOW HILL, E.C. AND DERBY 1907 [All Rights Reserved] TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD EUSTACE CECIL, F.R.G.S. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY HIS LORDSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION PREFACE editing of this Dorset volume was originally- THEundertaken by the Rev. Thomas Perkins, the scholarly Rector of Turnworth. But he, having formulated its plan and written four papers therefor, besides gathering material for most of the other chapters, was laid aside by a very painful illness, which culminated in his unexpected death. This is a great loss to his many friends, to the present volume, and to the county of for Mr. Perkins knew the as Dorset as a whole ; county few men know it, his literary ability was of no mean order, and his kindness to all with whom he was brought in contact was proverbial. After the death of Mr. Perkins, the editing of the work was entrusted to the Rev.
    [Show full text]
  • Heritage at Risk Register 2012
    HERITAGE AT RISK 2012 / SOUTH WEST Contents HERITAGE AT RISK 3 Reducing the risks 7 Publications and guidance 10 THE REGISTER 12 Content and assessment criteria 12 Key to the entries 15 Heritage at risk entries by local planning authority 17 Bath and North East Somerset (UA) 19 Bournemouth (UA) 22 Bristol, City of (UA) 22 Cornwall (UA) 25 Devon 62 Dorset 131 Gloucestershire 173 Isles of Scilly (UA) 188 North Somerset (UA) 192 Plymouth, City of (UA) 193 Poole (UA) 197 Somerset 197 South Gloucestershire (UA) 213 Swindon (UA) 215 Torbay (UA) 218 Wiltshire (UA) 219 Despite the challenges of recession, the number of sites on the Heritage at Risk Register continues to fall. Excluding listed places of worship, for which the survey is still incomplete,1,150 assets have been removed for positive reasons since the Register was launched in 2008.The sites that remain at risk tend to be the more intractable ones where solutions are taking longer to implement. While the overall number of buildings at risk has fallen, the average conservation deficit for each property has increased from £260k (1999) to £370k (2012).We are also seeing a steady increase in the proportion of buildings that are capable of beneficial re-use – those that have become redundant not because of any fundamental lack of potential, but simply as the temporary victims of the current economic climate. The South West headlines for 2012 reveal a mixed picture. We will continue to fund Monument Management It is good news that 8 buildings at risk have been removed Schemes which, with match-funding from local authorities, from the Register; less good that another 15 have had to offer a cost-effective, locally led approach to tackling be added.
    [Show full text]
  • "Doubleclick Insert Picture"
    Newport Lane, Bloxworth Wareham, Dorset, BH20 7EF 2 Newport Lane, Bloxworth, Wareham, BH20 7EF Freehold Price: £865,000 Address Dating back to the mid 1600’s is this unique country home, built around a lovely courtyard and surrounded by beautiful rolling fields. This incredible property is set in a cul-de-sac location amongst other properties which at one time all belonged to a manor house estate giving a real feeling of community. The property is set on 0.44 of an acre plot and offers 4 double bedrooms, 2 reception rooms, 4 bathrooms. The current owners have lovingly restored the property over the last 21 years to expose its true character features such as impressive vaulted beamed ceilings, feature fireplaces and exposed brick walls just to mention a few. • A superb 1600’s country home set on 0.44 of an acre plot, built around a lovely courtyard and surrounded by beautiful rolling fields • Currently rented out as a luxury holiday let • Bursting with character features and offers 3,158 sq ft of accommodation • Superb kitchen/dining/day room has an impressive vaulted beamed ceiling, a beautiful slate tiled floor and patio doors which lead out to the courtyard. • Farmhouse style kitchen area fitted in a range of oak fronted units with composite granite worktops and includes a Range cooker, Belfast sink and a freestanding American fridge/freezer • Additional formal dining room with vaulted, beamed ceiling, double doors leading out to the garden and access through to the lounge • Generous lounge with exposed brick fire surround and a set of double doors leading out to the garden and a stable door leading to the courtyard • 4 double bedrooms, all with en-suites including an amazing master suite which has a spiral staircase leading to a mezzanine en-suite bathroom measuring 20’ x 12’8” • Fantastic south facing 140’ x 60’ mature garden with superb country views • Electric heating & double glazing This unique country home is set in a quiet cul-de-sac, along with 6 other homes which creates a wonderful community feel.
    [Show full text]
  • Sponsored Cycle Ride
    DHCT – RIDE+STRIDE – LIST OF CHURCHES - Saturday 14th September 2019 - 10.00am to 6.00pm To help you locate churches and plan your route, the number beside each church indicates the (CofE) Deanery in which it is situated. Don’t forget that this list is also available on the website by Postcode, Location and Deanery. 1- Lyme Bay 2 - Dorchester 3 - Weymouth 4 - Sherborne 5 – Purbeck 6 - Milton & Blandford 7 - Wimborne 8 - Blackmore Vale 9 – Poole & N B’mouth 10- Christchurch 3 Abbotsbury 4 Castleton, Sherborne Old Church 5 Affpuddle 1 Catherston Leweston Holy Trinity 7 Alderholt 4 Cattistock 4 Folke 1 Allington 4 Caundle Marsh 6 Fontmell Magna 6 Almer 2 Cerne Abbas 2 Fordington 2 Athelhampton Orthodox 7 Chalbury 2 Frampton 2 Alton Pancras 5 Chaldon Herring (East Chaldon) 4 Frome St Quinton 5 Arne 6 Charlton Marshall 4 Frome Vauchurch 6 Ashmore 2 Charminster 8 Gillingham 1 Askerswell 1 Charmouth 8 Gillingham Roman Catholic 4 Batcombe 2 Cheselbourne 4 Glanvilles Wootton 1 Beaminster 4 Chetnole 2 Godmanstone 4 Beer Hackett 6 Chettle 6 Gussage All Saints 8 Belchalwell 3 Chickerell 6 Gussage St Michael 5 Bere Regis 1 Chideock 6 Gussage St Andrew 1 Bettiscombe 1 Chideock St Ignatius (RC) 4 Halstock 3 Bincombe 8 Child Okeford 8 Hammoon 4 Bishops Caundle 1 Chilcombe 7 Hampreston 1 Blackdown 4 Chilfrome 9 Hamworthy 6 Blandford Forum 10 Christchurch Priory 1 Hawkchurch Roman Catholic 5 Church Knowle 8 Hazelbury Bryan Methodist 7 Colehill 9 Heatherlands St Peter & St Paul 8 Compton Abbas 4 Hermitage United Reformed 2 Compton Valence 10 Highcliffe
    [Show full text]
  • PURBECK St Film Festival 21 13-29 Octobertb 20201717 - Tthehe Llongestongest Rrunningunning Rruralural UKUK fi Lmlm Festivalfestival - Over 70 fi Lms in 34 Venues
    PURBECK st Film festival 21 13-29 Octobertb 20172017 - TThehe llongestongest rrunningunning rruralural UUKK fi llmm festivalfestival - Over 70 fi lms in 34 venues The Eagle Huntress FOLLOW US ON The Rex Cinema Monday 16th October www.purbeckfilm.com PURBECK FFilmilm Festival 2017 elcome everybody once again to the ever- varied Purbeck Film Festival for its 21st birthday. WUnderstandably captured as we are by local and national issues, and governed by the routines of everyday life, it is important to appreciate constantly other concerns and other voices operating in our world. Cinema is a very eff ective medium for just such a need. To paraphrase the British Film Institute, an organisation to which we are indebted for support every year, we need to listen and learn from the other voices which fl ow from the diverse range of British and international fi lm making past, present and future. From New Zealand to Sweden and from Japan to Brazil, 24 countries are represented in the festival. They provide a wonderfully enjoyable way of encountering the world and its variety of human experiences. From the light hearted (Dough) to the deadly serious (Eye In The Sky), from the female perspective (Aquarius), to the black experience (I Am Not Your Negro), from the classic (La Strada) to the contemporary (My Life As A Courgette), the Festival aims to satisfy as many desires as possible and as many issues as practical. I hope you will all enjoy what you see and hear and continue to support this great event. We look forward to seeing you.
    [Show full text]
  • North West Purbeck ED RM.Pub
    Electoral Division Profile 2017 Purbeck North West Purbeck Electoral Division Total Population: 9,800 (2015 Mid Year Estimate, DCC) Number of Electors: 6,694 (March, 2017 PDC) North West Purbeck Electoral Division is composed of the following parishes: East Holme, Lytchett Matravers, East Stoke, Wool, Bere Regis, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, Bloxworth, Morden and Moreton. Within the division there are 1 library and 3 schools (1 infants, 1 junior and 1 secondary). Population North West Purbeck Dorset 2015 Mid-Year Population Estimates, ONS & DCC Purbeck Electoral (DCC) Division All 9,800 46,200 420,600 % aged 0-15 years 19.1 16.2 16.0 % aged 16-64 years 61.1 57.3 56.1 % aged 65-84 years 17.6 23.1 23.8 % aged 85+ years 2.2 3.5 4.1 North West Purbeck division has a total population of 9,800. The division has a much younger age profile than the county as a whole, with only 19.8% of the population 65 and over compared to 27.9% in Dorset. Created by Policy & Research, Chief Executive’s Department Email: [email protected] North West Purbeck Electoral Division, North West PAGE 1 Ethnicity/Country of Birth / Language spoken North West Purbeck Dorset Census, 2011 Purbeck Electoral (DCC) Division % white British 97.0 96.2 95.5 % Black and minority ethnic groups (BME) 3.0 3.8 4.5 % England 90.4 91.2 91.0 % born rest of UK 3.9 3.3 3.4 % Rep of IRE 0.3 0.4 0.4 % EU (member countries in 2001) 2.4 1.7 1.3 % EU (Accession countries April 2001 to March 2011) 0.5 0.6 0.7 % born elsewhere 2.5 2.6 3.1 Main language spoken not English 0.3 0.6 0.7
    [Show full text]
  • Examine the Value of Place-Names As Evidence for the History, Landscape And, Especially, Languages of South East Dorset
    Examine the Value of Place-Names as Evidence for the History, Landscape and, Especially, Languages of South East Dorset. Gemma Ellis Overview This paper analyses 40 place-names in South East Dorset, stretching from the modern boundary of Hampshire, along the Purbeck coast, to just east of Weymouth (Fig. 1). Continuing the trend of place-names throughout England, most names have Old English (OE) origins, as the Anglo-Saxons renamed places as they immigrated to land which was largely swamp or forest.1 However, there are three names of Brittonic origin. Welsh influence is expected due to the relatively close proximity to Wales. Figure 2 shows the large amount of surviving Celtic names in Dorset. For a similar reason I have found no direct Old Norse linguistic influence because Dorset was securely in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex when Danelaw was enacted in the 9th century to separate Viking invaders. Despite large Roman settlements at Poole, there is little evidence of the Latin language because it was not generally spoken in rural areas.2 Although, Dorchester, to the west of my corpus, retains the chester element because a Roman road went from there to Wimborne Minster and down to Poole Harbour. On the other hand, there are many Old French (OFr) place-name elements which originate from Norman aristocratic family personal names. I will be dividing the place-names by Figure 1 Maps illustrating the position of my corpus. whether they are topographical, habitative or Place-names marked in red are derived from OE, blue personal and within each category will study the have Celtic elements, yellow have Norman family names’ linguistic origins, offering more insight names, green are modern names, and pink have Latin or into the area’s history and language change.
    [Show full text]
  • A Thought from the Vicarage
    August 2000 THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS The Venerable Graham Roblin OBE and AFFPUDDLE with The Vicarage, Bere Regis, TURNERSPUDDLE BH20 7HQ Tel: (01929) 471262 August 2000 A THOUGHT FROM THE VICARAGE BARBECUED FOR JESUS Rather selfishly I thank God for perverse things. I thank God for rain on days that I am expected to be in the garden. I thank God for cold threatening evenings in August when otherwise I would be expected to barbecue. My list of perverse hopes is quite extensive, but I keep it close to my heart. To barbecue is American. To barbecue is masculine. (Men do it.) It has even been shortened in conversation to "barbee". It does remarkably little for me, but you would never know this by looking at my face as I tip the charcoal into the rusted receptacle and leap away from the cloud of dust. The granite smile on my face remains constant through the whole excruciating performance. So it was with a slight wryness that I discovered that the patron saint of Affpuddle was barbecued. This indicated that barbecuing was not always "a good thing". I only mention this because this month, on the 10th, we remember this gruesome event. St Laurence was barbecued on 10th August AD 258. Not being influenced by America, they didn't use the word "barbee", but used the expression "roasted on a grid iron". But worse is to come. It was written down that in the middle of his torment, he addressed his torturer, "I am roasted enough on this side, turn me around and eat".
    [Show full text]