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Representation ID: 29694

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Persimmon Homes (West Yorkshire)

Agent: Barton Wilmore

Landscape Assessment of ME/002

The other reason the Council have dismissed the site is due to ‘landscape impacts’. In order for the Council to have come to that conclusion we would expect there to have been a landscape document within the Council’s evidence base which had been prepared by qualified landscape architects and which assesses the site and its landscape impacts. We have been unable to locate any such document and it is therefore assumed that the Council are relying on the site appraisal comments
within the Sustainability Appraisal (SA), which has been prepared by Arcadis.

The SA states that development of the sit would potentially lead to the loss of green infrastructure elements such as trees that are high visual amenity, which would likely adversely impact upon town and local
character.

However, Pegasus’ assessment of the site concludes very differently, see below.

It is not considered that the development of the site would result in the loss of any landscape features that hold an individual landscape or visual value or are of a specific importance to the wider landscape character. Existing landscape features worthy of retention such as the trees within and bounding the site, and the stone walling along Burley Road could be incorporated as part of a new development. Together with new planting, retained vegetation would contribute to the well wooded character of the locality and help to integrate new development into the landscape.