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QUAKERS WALK, DEVIZES
5.20 Quakers Walk
Quakers Walk is an important historic route, which needs
to be preserved and enhanced. A rural design approach
to the Walk should be adopted, the unanimous preference
of those responding to the initial consultation in early
2005. This will help to retain the rural feel to Quakers
Walk, and serve to enhance biodiversity, through creation
of new habitats.
Figure 5.30: Rural design
concept plan
The principal elements of this approach involve:
• An informal edge would be established along the interface
between Quakers Walk and the new development.
• Inter visibility between Quakers Walk and the new
development is deliberately interrupted along a large
section of Quakers Walk. Where development is closer to
Quakers Walk the housing is screened by both subtle
landform and planting so that the existing rural feel to
Quakers Walk is maintained.
• Spaces would be maintained with areas of both rough and
mown grass.
Development proposals should respect the requirement
for no built development within 35 metres of Quakers
Walk. Several respondents to the consultation exercise
expressed concern over the impact of lighting on Quakers
Walk. Wiltshire County Council have previously expressed
a preference for the Walk to be lit, providing a safer route
for use by local residents in the early morning and
evenings.
FIGURE 5.30
Ref: 04744
May 2005
Issue Number 1