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QUAKERS WALK, DEVIZES
5.22 Achieving a Quality Natural Landscape
• The Quakers Walk site has a distinctive landscape
setting. This is a key characteristic. In order to maintain
the essence and identity of the locality, it is important
that the natural landscape forms an integral part of the
new development. There should be a positive inter
relationship between the new townscape and the natural
landscape.
Figure 5.34: Landscape
context of Quakers Walk
Site.
Figure 5.35: Avenue of
trees with bulbs as under
planting (bottom centre)
• Achieving a positive natural landscape is crucial to the
success of the development in order to promote:
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Local distinctiveness.
Ecology and bio-diversity.
A natural buffer to existing boundaries.
A suitable setting to Quakers Walk respecting its
historic role in the landscape.
A positive view of Quakers Walk itself and the
development when viewed from Roundway Hill.
A high quality public realm.
• A Landscape Strategy is to be prepared and submitted
at the outline planning application stage, with the final
landscape scheme to be agreed at the detailed planning
stage. This is to ensure that landscape issues are
attributed appropriate weight and that the proposed
landscaping scheme is developed alongside design of
the built form.
FIGURE 5.34
5.23 General Planting
• Plant species are to be native or indigenous to the
Devizes area. The tree species selected should be of
medium size so as to not cast large areas of shade in
adjacent gardens.
FIGURE 5.35
• Where planting reinforces the boundaries between
residential properties and areas of public access, the
plant species would be selected to contain a particularly
high percentage of thorny, impenetrable species,
thereby providing additional security for the residents.
Ref: 04744
May 2005
Issue Number 1