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From: Daniel Wheelwright <[email protected]> Sent: 06 February 2019 23:51 To: Burman, Lee Cc: Richard Huteson Subject: Planning application 18/02180/FUL - Land to the east of A429 - Malmesbury - Lidl UK GmbH Email 1 Attachments: Malmesbury - landscaping 5_2_19 - signed.pdf; SPP3010 MALMESBURY LVIA Rev G 040219.pdf; SPP 09 Rev L Mitigation Plan Landscape A3.pdf; SPP010.1 Rev L Mitigation Plan Landscape A1.pdf Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed Categories: Red Category Lee, Please also see attached letter regarding additional landscaping to further satisfy the concerns of the landscape and conservation officers. I’m sending the associated attachments in three emails due to their file size. As set out within the letter we emphasise that this information provides additional articulation and augmentation to the scheme already under consideration, and can be secured via Section 106 agreement as per the other elements of landscaping outside of the application area. Again I would be grateful if you could confirm receipt. Kind regards Daniel Daniel Wheelwright BA (Hons) MA MRTPI Associate Town Planning 07980 871070 RAPLEYS LLP 55 Spring Gardens Manchester M2 2BY 0370 777 6292 | www.rapleys.com London | Birmingham | Bristol | Edinburgh | Huntingdon | Manchester Rapleys LLP is registered as a Limited Liability Partnership in England and Wales. Registration No: OC308311 Registered Office at Falcon Road, Hinchingbrooke Business Park, HUNTINGDON PE29 6FG A full list of Members is available on our website or at any of our offices during normal business hours. Regulated by RICS. Rapleys LLP operates an Environmental Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 Certificate No. EMS 525645 1 This email is not intended, nor shall it form part of any legally enforceable contract and any contract shall only be entered into by way of an exchange of correspondence by each party's solicitor. Where this Email message is sent in connection with a contentious issue, the contents are Without Prejudice. This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com 2 DJEW/17-02863/Let2 5 February 2019 Lee Burman Area Team Leader (North) Economic Development and Planning Wiltshire Council Monkton Park Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1ER Dear Lee, Re: Planning application 18/02180/FUL - Erection of a New Lidl Store and Associated Works Including Car Parking and Landscaping on Land East of the A429, Malmesbury, Wiltshire Land East of the A429, Malmesbury Bypass, Malmesbury Further to our letter dated 4 February 2019 (DJEW/17-02863/Let1) which addresses outstanding concerns in relation to the above planning application, we provide details of additional proposed landscaping for the triangular piece of land between the A429 and the proposed access to the Lidl store. For completeness, we have shown this change on the enclosed documents/ plans which we list below: • Mitigation plan (Rev. L) – Swan Paul Partnership • Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) (Rev. G) – Swan Paul Partnership • LVIA Figure and Viewpoints (Rev. K) – Swan Paul Partnership • Proposed Site Plan AD 122 (Rev. J) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Site Plan AD 110 (Rev. P) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Boundary Treatments AD 114 (Rev. M) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Site Aerial Overlay Plan AD 120 (Rev. K) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Site Plan with Topo. Overlay AD 121 (Rev. F) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Site Plan AD 110 (Rev. P) – One Design Architectural Services • Proposed Site Finishes AD115 (Rev.L) – One Design Architectural Services • Updated ‘birds-eye’ CGI – One Design Architectural Services • Heritage Setting Assessment Addendum – Environmental Design Partnership It should be noted that the land where the additional landscaping is proposed falls outside of the red edge associated with the site. Thus we confirm that no changes are being proposed within the application area and consequently no formal re-consultation is required to the application proposals. This information therefore provides additional articulation and augmentation to the scheme already under consideration. As already discussed, these additional landscaping changes can be secured via a Section 106 agreement. As we noted in our letter dated 4 January 2019, which addresses the comments of the Conservation and Landscape Officers: 1 • The character of the area around the application site already presents a mixed late 20th / early 21st century form; • As a consequence of the approval of Waitrose, the A429 bypass itself and the 20th century development east of the A429 at Burton Hill, this blurring or ‘erosion’ of the urban rural distinction has already occurred; • The Waitrose store has now been developed, it is self-evident that there has been a material change in the character of this immediate area, which has been acknowledged by the Council; and • Notwithstanding the above material points, the application proposal is consistent with the existing Waitrose proposal in minimising its impact through a lower, curved roof profile and the provision of providing a significant landscape buffer to the northern, eastern and southern edges in particular. Additionally, Lidl has agreed to provide their first green roof outside of London which in association with the curved roof profile, substantially mitigates any associated visual impact of the proposed store; We also note that the Heritage Settings Assessment produced by EDP in July 2018 is clear: • That the site does not contribute to, or allow more than a negligible appreciation of the significance of the conservation area; • In any case, the design of the proposed development will minimise the effect of its implementation, including changes to the experience of the conservation area; and • Consequently the proposal will not result in harm to the significance of the conservation area, as it will not affect any positive contributions of its setting or affect views, such that the appreciation of the asset’s significance would be lost. Furthermore the December 2018 LVIA highlights that: ‘The results of this landscape and visual appraisal indicate that the proposed development could be accommodated on the site without overall landscape or visual effects. Potential identified effects are considered to be localised and contained. With mitigation planting and management plan theses effects will overtime reduce with the maturing planting proposals.’ The effect of the additional landscaping provides further mitigation, reflecting the neighbouring Waitrose landscape buffer which fronts the A429. As the refreshed LVIA notes in conclusion on page 46: ‘With mitigation planting of maintaining as much of the existing tree and hedge planting as possible, a minimum 5m width native tree and hedgerow bed to the north and south, reinforcement native planting to the east, additional native tree planting to the west, living green roof, avenue tree planting at the entrance and new native tree and hedge planting to the field boundary, the proposed development will be screened from those views indicated as having potential views over the site. The proposed and reinforcement native planting will further enhance the existing hedge promoting greater ecological connectivity. Within a short time the dense planting will form a visual foil that will reflect the landscape that surrounds it.’ Furthermore the Heritage Setting Assessment addendum concludes: ‘The masterplan changes relate to additional landscape treatments, comprising (1) additional planting to the west of the food store location; and (2) the use of a ‘living green roof’. These would further minimise the already minimal change predicted to result from the implementation of the proposed development, and would not result in harm to the Malmesbury Conservation Area.’ 2 In light of the above, we respectfully suggest that the proposed composite landscape mitigation satisfactorily addresses the identified concerns of the Conservation and Landscape Officers. Yours sincerely, Daniel Wheelwright Daniel Wheelwright (Feb 6, 2019) Daniel Wheelwright BA (Hons) MA Town & Regional Planning MRTPI Associate - Town Planning [email protected] 07980 871070 Encs 3 Malmesbury LIDL A429 Road, Malmesbury SN16, UK Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment in connection with proposed LIDL Malmesbury SPP3010 December2017 Swan Paul Partnership Ltd Rev A FEb 2018 REv B 140218 4 Chartfi eld House Rev C 230218 Castle Street Rev D 020718 Taunton TA1 4AS Rev E 250718 Tel: 01823 282971 Rev F 301018 email: [email protected] Rev G 040219 web: www,swanpaul.co.uk CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Scope of Assessment 2.0 Assessment Methodology 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Landscape Baseline Methodology 2.3 Visual Baseline Methodology 2.4 Assessment and Mitigation Methodology 3.0 The Policy Context 3.1 Introduction 3.2 National Planning Policy Framework ‐ March 2012 3.3 The Local Development Framework 3.4 Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 3.5 Malmesbury Neighbourhood Plan (2015) 4.0 Baseline Conditions 4.1 Site Context 4.2 Site Appraisal 4.3 The Landscape Baseline 4.4 The Visual Baseline 4.5 Baseline Conclusion 5.0 Potential Sources of Impact and the Mitigation Proposals 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Development Proposals and Potential Sources of Impact 5.3 Proposed Mitigation 6.0 The Landscape and Visual Analysis – Appraisal