Wheelabrator Harewood Waste-to- Energy Facility Appendix 14-4 – Published Character Assessment Prepared for: WTI/EfW Holdings Ltd. AECOM Wheelabrator Harewood Waste-to- Energy Facility Appendix A Published Landscape Character Assessments Appendix 14-4 – Published Character Assessments Wheelabrator Harewood Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Facility Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) WTI/EfW Holdings Ltd. October 2019 Prepared for: WTI/WfE Holdings Ltd. AECOM 1 Wheelabrator Harewood Waste-to- Energy Facility Contents 1. National Level ...................................................................................................................... 5 National Character Area 130: Hampshire Downs, 2014 ......................................................................... 5 National Character Area 129: Thames Basin Heaths, 2014 ................................................................... 6 National Character Area 125: South Downs, 2014 ................................................................................. 6 National Character Area 132: Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs, 2014 ................................... 8 2. County Level ........................................................................................................................ 9 Hampshire Integrated Character Assessment, 2011 .............................................................................. 9 HLCT A: Open Downs ............................................................................................................................. 9 HLCT B: Chalk Scarp .............................................................................................................................. 9 HLCT C: Downland Mosaic Large Scale .............................................................................................. 10 HLCT D: Downland Mosaic Small Scale ............................................................................................... 10 HLCT E: Lowland Mosaic Medium Scale .............................................................................................. 11 HLCT F: Lowland Mosaic Small Scale .................................................................................................. 11 HLCT G: River Valley Floor ................................................................................................................... 12 HLCT H: Wooded Downland Plateau .................................................................................................... 12 HLCT: Settlement .................................................................................................................................. 13 HLCA 2H: Lockerley Wooded Farmland ............................................................................................... 13 HLCA 2N: Wellow and Awbridge Heath Associated Wooded Farmland ............................................... 13 HLCA 3B: Test Valley ............................................................................................................................ 13 HLCA 3C: Itchen Valley ......................................................................................................................... 14 HLCA 6A: East Hampshire Wooded Downland Plateau ....................................................................... 14 HLCA 7A: North West Hampshire Downs ............................................................................................. 15 HLCA 7B: Hannington and Dummer Downs ......................................................................................... 15 HLCA 7D: Bighton and Bramdean Downs ............................................................................................ 16 HLCA 7E: South West Hampshire Downs ............................................................................................ 16 HLCA 7F: West Winchester Downs ...................................................................................................... 16 HLCA 7G: Owslebury and Corhampton Downs .................................................................................... 17 HLCA 8A: Willesley and Litchfield Dipslope Open Downs .................................................................... 17 HLCA 8B: Basingstoke Open Downs .................................................................................................... 18 HLCA 8C: North East Hampshire Open Downs .................................................................................... 18 HLCA 8D: Andover Open Downs .......................................................................................................... 18 HLCA 8E: Mid Hampshire Open Downs ............................................................................................... 19 HLCA 8F: Candover Valley ................................................................................................................... 19 HLCA 8G: East Winchester Open Downs ............................................................................................. 20 HLCA 8H: East Dean Open Downs ...................................................................................................... 20 HLCA 13A: Clere Scarp and Greensand Terrace ................................................................................. 21 Wiltshire Landscape Character Assessment, 2005 .............................................................................. 21 WLCT 2: Wooded Downland ................................................................................................................. 21 WLCA 2B: Chute Forest ........................................................................................................................ 22 WLCA 2C: Witherington Wooded Downland ......................................................................................... 22 WLCT 3: High Chalk Plain .................................................................................................................... 22 WLCA 3B: Salisbury Plain East ............................................................................................................ 23 WLCA 3C: Porton Down ........................................................................................................................ 23 WLCT 14: Forest Heathland Mosaic ..................................................................................................... 23 WLCA 14A: Farley Forest-Heathland Mosaic ....................................................................................... 24 Prepared for: WTI/WfE Holdings Ltd. AECOM 2 Wheelabrator Harewood Waste-to- Energy Facility WLCT 15: Greensand Vale ................................................................................................................... 24 WLCA 15A: Vale of Pewsey .................................................................................................................. 25 Berkshire Landscape Character Assessment, 2003 ............................................................................. 25 BLCT D: Chalk Scarp ............................................................................................................................ 25 BLCA D1: Walbury Hill .......................................................................................................................... 25 3. District Level ...................................................................................................................... 26 Test Valley Borough Landscape Character Assessment, 2018 ............................................................ 26 TVLCA 5B: Middle Test Valley Floor ..................................................................................................... 26 TVLCA 5C: Upper Test Valley Floor ...................................................................................................... 27 TVLCA 5G: River Dever Valley Floor .................................................................................................... 28 TVLCA 5H: Pillhill Brook Valley Floor .................................................................................................... 30 TVLCA 5J: Lower River Anton Valley Floor ........................................................................................... 30 TVLCA 6B: Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods .............................................................. 31 TVLCA 6C: Little Somborne Wooded Downs ....................................................................................... 31 TVLCA 6D: Harewood Forest Wooded Downs ..................................................................................... 32 TVLCA 6E: Amport Wooded Downs...................................................................................................... 33 TVLCA 6F: Rushmore Wooded Downs ................................................................................................ 34 TVLCA 6G: Faccombe Wooded Downs ................................................................................................ 34 TVLCA 7A: Ashley Downs ..................................................................................................................... 35 TVLCA 7C: Linkenholt Downs ............................................................................................................... 35 TVLCA 8A: Tangley and Doles Wood ................................................................................................... 36 TVLCA 9A: North Andover Plateau