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ANDOVER AIRFIELD BUSINESS PARK (APPLICATION (Ref 07/0195/OUTN) Summary of Landscape Objections prepared on behalf of the STOP! Alliance A Report has been prepared by Allen Pyke Associates, an independent landscape and urban design practice specialising in landscape character and visual impact assessment. The author, David Allen, is a chartered landscape architect with over 25 years experience in the appraisal and planning of large scale landscape schemes including business parks and distribution warehouses. The main grounds for objection are: 1. The development proposals do not provide adequate landscape mitigation within the recently increased business park boundary defined in the Local Plan. Mitigation treatments can only be achieved by extending the Business Park a further 3 hectares beyond the settlement boundary but the proposed bunding and planting will still not prevent long term detrimental impacts on residential amenity and the landscape setting. 2. The extension of the scheme beyond the settlement boundary into a designated Local Gap means the application must also be judged in relation to the impacts on the Local Plan ‘Countryside’ and ‘Local Gap’ policies. 3. The proposals are contrary to 12 Local Plan policies designed to protect landscape character, visual impact, local distinctiveness and residential amenity - they included 2 policies specifically designed for future development of the Business Park. 4. The Environmental Assessment gives inadequate recognition to the effect of night time lighting or the reduced screening provided by the predominately deciduous vegetation in the surrounding landscape and the proposed planting within the development during the winter months. 5. The Unit 4 Distribution Warehouse is poorly sited beside the north-western boundary of the Business Park. Its scale, height and massing is highly detrimental to the amenity of neighbouring properties overlooking the site and is an inappropriate development in the context of the adjacent sensitive and predominately rural setting. 6. It will take many years for the proposed planting to have any significant screening effect and this will be reduced in the winter months. The undulating design and low profile of the bunds and positioning of the tree planting means that a large part of Units 4 and 5 will always be visible throughout the year from adjacent properties, the A303 and the wider landscape. Request a copy of the full Report from info@stopmegasheds.co.uk November 2008 www.stopmegasheds.co.uk
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