SECTION 3.0 - Durham County Council

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2.5 Local Policy Context • Open Space Needs Assessment (OSNA) & Greenspace Strategies • Local Authority: Strategy produced: Durham City OSNA Easington OSNA/Greenspace Strategy Sedgefield OSNA/Greenspace Strategy Teasdale OSNA commissioned Wear Valley OSNA commissioned/halted due to LGR Derwentside N/A Chester-le-Street Biodiversity-friendly grounds maintenance protocol ‘ from parks to larks’. South East Durham Growth Point South and East Durham is located in the heart of the North East region. It is essentially located in two areas of the County: a) A19 Seaham-Peterlee Corridor; and b) The triangle of settlements between Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe and Bisho p Auckland. Durham County Council is working with regional regeneration agencies in order to harness the potential for housing growth to support local economic growth and to inform the new Unitary Authority thinking on economic growt h. Growth Point status offers the opportunity to deliver an improved choice of housing with over 1200 new dwellings planned each year up to 2016; a figure significantly in excess of previously agreed targets. A pre-determined level of affordable housing will be delivered as well as market housing for sale. Alongside housing growth there will be plans to protect and enhance the environment through the development of a stronger network of public transport provision and through increased investment in ‘green’ initiatives. In particular the production of a Green Infrastructure Strategy has been assigned as a ‘priority 1’ project, due for completion in June 2010. Page 29 4/15/2009
SECTION 3.0 – Current Situation 3.1 BASELINE LANDSCAPE: County Durham is best described in terms of its Natural Areas . Natural areas are subdivision’s of England, each with a characteristic association of wildlife and natural features. Durham’s Natural Areas include: • Northumbrian coal measures • North Pennines • Durham magnesian limestone plateau • Tees lowlands • Pennine Dales fringe Durham County Council’s Landscape Strategy, further breaks down the Natural areas into county character areas. County Durham is divided into the following county character areas: • Dales fringe • East Durham limestone plateau • North Pennines • Tees lowlands • Wear lowlands • West Durham coalfield Each Natural Area and hence Character Area, has a unique identity resulting from the interaction of wildlife, landforms, geology, land use and human impact. Natural areas help us to set objectives, define national priorities and local targets, and decide where in the county resources should be focussed to best effect. Each character area house a number of designations, determined by the archaeology and hence ecology of the area. The following summary descriptions of each area are discussed in more detail in the Landscape Technical Paper. Please see designations by Character Area in the appendices. N orth Pennines The Pennines form a distinctive upland block bordered by the Eden and Tyne valleys, the Durham lowlands and the Yorkshire Dales. The Natural Area (2186 square kilometres) and the AONB (2000 square kilometres) broadly cover the same geographical area. Nearly 80% of the character area comprises some form of semi-natural vegetation and plantation woodland, with 20% agriculturally improved, and just 0.6% considered ‘built-up’. Approximately 36.5% of the land is designated a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), along with further areas 6 http://www.naturalareas.naturalengland.org.uk/Science/natural/NA_search.asp Page 30 4/15/2009 6 Link with Landscape Technical Paper (No.23)
Page 1 and 2: County Durham Core Evidence Base Te
Page 3 and 4: SECTION 1.0 1. Introduction 1.1 The
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Page 9 and 10: emphasis to endangered and vulnerab
Page 11 and 12: • SEA / SA / AA Strategic Environ
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Page 27: guiding new mineral development, ex
Page 31 and 32: number of Local Wildlife Sites. The
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Page 35 and 36: Biosphere Reserve Biosphere reserve
Page 37 and 38: Conditions of SSSIs in County Durha
Page 39 and 40: OTHER CONSERVATION AREAS AND HABITA
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Page 69 and 70: APPENDIX A DESIGNATIONS BY CHARACTE
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Bedburn Beck and Adder Wood Crakehi
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form of H12 Calluna vulgaris - Vacc
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peat displays the full range of fea
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North Pennine Moors 103,109.42 (cov
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Special Protection Area: Name Area
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APPENDIX C: SITES OF SPECIAL SCIENT
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UNFAVOURABLE inappropriate wetland
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Fairy Holes Cave 213.39019563043900
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grazing and juniper wood to limesto
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APPENDIX F: LOCAL WILDLIFE SITES (L
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Derwentside Broomhill Dene 1.32 Sep
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Chester-lestreetChester-le- Waldrid
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Wear Valley Flylands' River Gaunles
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Durham Finchale Priory Woods 4.5 Ja
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Durham The Scrambles 4.42 1995 Mead
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Easington Slingley Pond 5.29 June 1
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Teesdale Railway, Bluestone Grange
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Teesdale Cragg Wood, Evenwood 6.43
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Sedgefield Eden Grange Pond Mainsfo
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13 Gaunless River, East Bank Wear V
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59 Teesdale Cave (Moking Hurth Cave
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APPENDIX H: Summary of protection a
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APPENDIX I: HABITATS AND COUNTY SPE
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Dark green fritillary Dingy skipper
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Biodiversity and the Built Environm
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