Landscape
- Landscape issues relating to planning applications
- General landscape issues
Landscape Issues relating to Planning Applications
The Heritage Team provides advice on and deals with all
landscape issues relating to planning applications. This
includes:
- Advice to developers and the general public before a planning
application is submitted – outlining landscape details that may be
required to be submitted as part of a planning application.
- Liaison with the Council’s planning officers and applicants or
their agents on submitted planning applications - where existing
landscape features on site need to be considered or where there is
a need for new planting to be provided as part of the scheme.
- Evaluation of Environmental Impact Assessments that have been
submitted to the Council for consideration as part of a planning
application - where an EIA is required to be submitted, depending
on the type of development proposed.
- Advice to applicants or their agents after planning consent has
been granted and a landscape condition has been imposed – on what
landscape details need to be submitted to the Council in order to
comply with the condition.
- Evaluation of landscape schemes submitted to the Council to
comply with landscape conditions that have been imposed on a
planning consent – in order to approve the submitted scheme or
negotiate any amendments that may be required before the scheme can
be approved.
- Advice to Parish Councils and the general public on whether the
landscape requirements of any completed development have been
complied with.
For further information contact:
Customer Service Advisor 01386 565565
Eileen Marshall,
Landscape Officer
E-mail: eileen.marshall@wychavon.gov.uk
Useful links
General Landscape Issues
Further advice on the following landscape related issues is
available from the websites specified
- The English Woodland
Grant Scheme- this is the Forestry Commission's suite of grants
relating to both proposed and existing woodlands
- Felling
Licences - everyone involved in the felling of trees, the
owner, agent or contractor must ensure that a licence has been
issued from the Forestry Commission before any felling is carried
out, unless one of the exemptions applies. If the trees are
protect by a Tree Preservation Order, an application to
fell must also be submitted to the local authority.
- Wildlife
Designations - sites identified as having special wildlife
value
- Landscape Designations - special designations within Wychavon
include the Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV) to the south of
the District, the Droitwich Special Landscape Area and the
Cotswolds Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covering the areas around
Broadway and Bredon Hill. These will be considered for
development control purposes under Policies ENV1 and ENV2 of the
Wychavon
District Local Plan June 2006.
- Landscape Character - Worcestershire County Council have
produced a Landscape
Character Assessment for Worcestershire.
-
Natural England is the Government's Statutory adviser on
landscape issues and has responsibility for the Cotswolds Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covering areas around
Broadway and Bredon Hill
- The England Rural Development Programme (ERDP) - these DEFRA
schemes include grant aid for proposals to conserve and improve the
rural environment.
-
Environmental Stewardship - an agri-environmental scheme which
provides funding to farmers and other land managers who deliver
effective environmental management on their land.
- The Woodland Trust - a
conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native
woodland heritage.
- Worcestershire Wildlife
Trust for local conservation and wildlife issues
