Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
  • Introduction
  • The Green Belt
  • The Area Around Todmorden
  • Protected Land
  • Special Landscape Area
  • Nature Conservation
  • Trees and Woodland
  • Natural Stone and Drystone Walls
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

Special Landscape Area

11.33 Policies NE1 to NE10 seek to protect the quality of the environment and agricultural land in the Green Belt and the Area Around Todmorden by controlling land uses. In much of Calderdale the countryside is of a very high visual quality; a combination of impressive landscape, buildings of architectural and historical significance and areas of ecological importance. Furthermore, in many places, this landscape is visible and accessible from urban areas.

11.34 Both culturally and environmentally the landscape to the west of the District also forms an important part of the Southern Pennines, linking the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks. The most important landscapes of the District need to be safeguarded and have therefore been designated as a Special Landscape Area (SLA) in the UDP and as such, are subject to Policy NE12 and are defined on the Proposals Map. The majority of the SLA coincides with the Heritage Area as defined by SCOSPA and is protected by the Heritage Strategy for the Southern Pennines. This provides the strategic framework to guide and manage development within the area. The Heritage Strategy indicates that the area is particularly sensitive to the effects of changing agricultural practice and declining agricultural viability. Reduced investment in the maintenance of buildings and boundaries and woodland management brings about deterioration in the visual quality of key elements. Furthermore, inappropriately designed building conversions, the creation of garden areas and the introduction of horse stabling, grazing and exercising can all exacerbate these problems. The Heritage Strategy promotes the Landscape Character Assessment and the Countryside Design Summary produced by SCOSPA in 1998, as examples of best practice. These documents provide the basis for protecting and managing the Southern Pennine landscape and the natural, cultural and built features within it. The Special Landscape Area designation whilst providing protection for all identified important landscapes, will support the principles within these documents to govern the location of new development in a way that respects and is sympathetic to the visual quality of the landscape.

11.35 In certain cases it may be necessary to remove permitted development rights in order that unsympathetic additions to buildings are prevented. The incremental effect of such insensitive development would be obtrusive in this type of area. Therefore, the Council will give consideration to Directions under Article 4 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order (1995) (as amended) to restrict the permitted development of certain types of buildings in Special Landscape Areas.

Back to Top