Landscape Character Supplementary Planning Document ...

City of Bradford Metropolitan District CouncilLocal Development Framework For Bradford9.8 PARKLANDSummary9.8.1 Broad open grassland dominated landscape which lacks small scale field enclosure andcontains woodland and mature fields trees.Distribution9.8.2 Parkland is often associated with existing or former large country house estates; thelargest example with the district is the Bingley St Ives estate near Bingley. Some golfcourse landscapes have been classified as parkland – notably where they have retainedthe open landscape and mature trees cover a significant area.Landscape Elements9.8.3 Open grassland in the form of pasture or recreation dominate this landscape type,distinguished from the other pasture landscapes by the lack of small scale fieldenclosure.Woodland, small tree groups and mature individual parkland trees are a landscapeelement, which features strongly. There is a broad range of mixed deciduous andconiferous trees, many of which are ornamental in nature.Landscape Character Supplementary Planning DocumentOctober 2008 Page 56