Core Strategy Baseline Analysis Study - Bradford Metropolitan ...

7. Parkland: Broad open grassland dominated landscape
which lacks small scale field enclosure and contains
woodland and mature fields trees.
8. Floodplain Pasture: A very distinct, flat, open landscape
with relatively large, rectilinear fields enclosed by hedges,
occupying the low-lying floodplains of Bradford’s open
valleys.
9. Industrial Corridor: An enclosed, low lying landscape
dominated by industrial development and the corridors of
transport infrastructure necessary to support it.
10. Settlement: It is a very enclosed landscape, which exists
where there is an area of land dominated by large
numbers of mainly residential buildings, such that views
within it are restricted primarily to sequences of short
views contained by building groups.
Source: Landscape Character SPD (CBMDC, 2008)
The identification and definition of Bradford’s ten landscape types was carried out through
the completion of field study forms and photographic records on site; and their subsequent
analysis through discussion and debate within the study team.
The Issues
Some landscape types have been easier to identify than others. The Gritstone Moorland is a
particularly characteristic landscape with fairly distinct boundaries. Likewise the wooded
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