Landscape Character Supplementary Planning Document ...

City of Bradford Metropolitan District CouncilLocal Development Framework For Bradford9.11 SETTLEMENTSummary9.11.1 It is a very enclosed landscape, which exists where there is an area of land dominatedby large numbers of mainly residential buildings, such that views within it are restrictedprimarily to sequences of short views contained by building groups.Distribution9.11.2 Within the Bradford District settlements are absent from the high moorland areas; beingconcentrated mainly on the lower slopes of Airedale, Wharfedale and the Worth Valley.In the Wilsden area small villages nestle into the upper tributary valleys of Harden Beck,compared to Thornton and Queensbury, which sit perched on ridgelines.Landscape Elements9.11.3 Settlements contain a complex mix of buildings, which are generally arranged alongroads, and so have the effect of dividing the area into a particular patter of predominantlylinear spaces. There are further, very intricate, sub-divisions of space into areas, whichare understood to be the public domain, to those, which are perceived as strictly privateareas. This is partly sensed through a complex, subconscious and subtle mix of signalswithin the detail of the physical landscape; and it is particularly crucial in settlements,where a lot of people are living and working in a relatively small space.Landscape Character Supplementary Planning DocumentOctober 2008 Page 62