Landscape Character Assessment - Chelmsford Borough Council

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168 Risk of erosion due to wash from motorised craft. Potential for damage to diverse, important saltmarsh and bird habitats with a potential increase intourism and accessibility to visitors. Further development, including caravan parks as at Creeksea could erode the generally undisturbedcharacter of the area and adversely affect saltmarsh. Pressure for change of use from arable for development, which may have a visually intrusive impacton landscape character. Pressure from development within this, and adjacent character areas. Continuing loss of hedges and field boundary vegetation with subsequent loss of historic pattern,sense of enclosure and ecological habitat.Sensitivities to ChangeSensitive key characteristics and landscape elements within this character area include areas of drainedgrazing marsh close to the sea wall, ditches, dykes and sea walls, scattered blocks of trees and lineartree belts (which are sensitive to changes in land management). The open nature of the area is visuallysensitive to new development (especially in close proximity to the sea wall), which would be visiblewithin views from adjacent character areas. There is a sense of historic integrity, resulting from adistinctive co-axial rectilinear field pattern and a dispersed historic settlement pattern. Potential newdevelopment either within the area, or within adjacent character areas, may also disturb the strongsense of tranquillity. The area also contains several internationally and nationally important sites forwildlife (in particular, wildfowl). Overall, this character area has high sensitivity to change.Proposed Landscape Strategy ObjectivesConserve - seek to protect and enhance positive features that are essential in contributing to localdistinctiveness and sense of place through effective planning and positive land management measures.Enhance - seek to improve the integrity of the landscape, and reinforce its character, by introducingnew and/or enhanced elements where distinctive features or characteristics are absent.Restore - seek to reinforce and/or reinstate historic landscape patterns and features that contribute tosense of place and time depth, by repairing distinctive elements that have been lost or degraded.Suggested Landscape Planning Guidelines Loss of hedgerows due to agricultural intensification. Ensure that any new development is well integrated into the surrounding landscape, responds tohistoric settlement pattern and scale, and uses materials which are appropriate to the local landscapecharacter. Conserve the rural character of the area. Ensure that new farm buildings are sensitively designed and located within the landscape to accordwith existing character. Conserve panoramic long distance views to adjacent character areas of drained and open estuarinemarsh to the south.Suggested Land Management Guidelines Conserve and restore the existing hedgerow network with particular emphasis placed on theplanting and management of elm. Conserve historic lanes and unimproved roadside verges. Conserve and enhance the landscape setting of North Fambridge, Creeksea and other villages.Section 5.0 – Landscape Character of Chelmsford Borough11100101R Final LCAs_09-06
1695.5 Wooded Farmland Landscapes5.5.1 The key characteristics of this Landscape Character Type are: Elevated undulating hills or ridges and slopes Mixture of arable and pasture farmland Pockets of common and pasture Views to wooded horizons Well wooded with blocks of mature mixed and deciduous woodland (including areas ofancient and semi-natural woodland); copses, hedges and mature single trees Mature field boundaries Framed views to adjacent character areas Enclosed character in places Network of quiet, often tree-lined narrow lanes5.5.2 This Landscape Character Type contains the following Landscape Character Areas:F5 - Little Baddow and Danbury Wooded FarmlandF6 - Woodham Wooded FarmlandF7 - Blackmore Wooded FarmlandF10 - Heybridge Wooded FarmlandF12 - East Hanningfield Wooded FarmlandF16 - Galleywood Wooded Farmland11100101R Final LCAs_09-06Section 5.0 – Landscape Character of Chelmsford Borough
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8.0 RECOMMENDATIONS8.1 General8.2 K
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GLOSSARYCommunity StrategyAll local
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APPENDIX CSOURCES OF FURTHER INFORM
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English Heritage, 2003, Register of
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