Site Opportunities

 

Overall there is a real potential for the site to provide a high quality development that benefits the existing community in addition to its residents.

 

The following points provide a summary of the site assessment:

 

Land use

 

• Utilise positive elements of existing residential development and landscape character to create a design that responds to the surrounding context

• Provide significant improvement in the availability of accessible open space for informal recreational use and formal play

 

Visual Amenity

 

• Retain long distance views of Mow Cop and the Peak District from the upper western boundary, whilst providing screening and significant visual enhancement of the immediate surroundings which are currently blighted by the operational landfill site, railway line and steel gantries on embankment

• Development layout to work carefully with the sloping nature of the site

• Dwellings on the upper western slope to be 1-1.5 storey bungalows to retain existing views from the bungalows of Sydney Road abutting the site and to complement the existing built form

 

Landscape and Ecology

 

• There is one species rich hedgerow on site, the rest are species poor with very limited tree cover. All existing hedgerows should be retained and enhanced with additional native tree and hedgerow planting to maintain and enhance the landscape character and improve habitat diversity

• Provide a green infrastructure to the development to integrate it into its setting and provide a high quality range of public open spaces

• Explore how Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems can be integrated with public open space to manage additional surface water run off

 

Access and Movement

 

• Maximise the opportunities to create new foot and cycle connections that are integrated with the existing footpaths, cycle routes and the proposed public open spaces of the Coppenhall East development to create a linked green space network

• Provide traffic calming measures along Maw Green Road to provide suitable access capacity and deter through traffic using Maw Green Road as a rat run

• Look at providing new footpath access along both sides of Maw Green Road and Groby Road

• Improve existing bus stops with the provision of bus shelters, seating and timetable information