Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance ‘Landscape Character Assessment’
Pembrokeshire County Council has published draft Supplementary Planning Guidance on Landscape.
The draft Landscape Character Assessment (draft LCA) will help understand the range and diversity of landscapes in Pembrokeshire (outside of the National Park) and the elements which contribute to them.
The Landscape Character Assessment uses information from LANDMAP. LANDMAP is the all-Wales system where landscapes are recorded and evaluated into a nationally consistent data set.
LANDMAP includes five datasets
– Visual and Sensory Landscape,
– Geological Landscape,
– Landscape Habitats,
– Cultural Landscape,
– Historic Landscape
which map and classify landscapes from the unique perspective of each dataset.
The Landscape Character Assessment identifies 29 distinct landscape character areas. For each landscape character area, key characteristics and qualities are set out. Changes to the landscape including past and present changes, alongside likely future changes and key sensitivities help to inform guidelines to protect, conserve or enhance areas.
This Supplementary Planning Guidance, will guide the Council when it considers planning applications which could impact on the landscape.
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT
(Contents, Introduction, Glossary, Methodology, Overview, Pembrokeshire landscapes, key findings)
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 1: TREFFYNNON................................................................... 17
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 2: ST NICHOLAS.................................................................... 21
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 3: FISHGUARD COASTAL....................................................... 24
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 4: MYNYDD CILCIFFETH........................................................ 28
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 5: SCLEDDAU LOWLANDS.................................................... 32
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 6: TREFFGARNE AND PLUMSTONE MOUNTAINS............... 36
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 7: PELCOMB AND SIMPSON CROSS.................................... 40
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 8: HAVERFORDWEST............................................................ 44
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 9: JOHNSTON LOWLANDS.....................................................50
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 10: THE HAVEN NORTH.........................................................55
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 11: WESTERN CLEDDAU........................................................ 58
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 12: LANDSKER LOWLANDS................................................... 62
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 13: ST DOGMAELS................................................................. 66
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 14: AFON CYCH & AFON TAF WOODED VALLEYS.................70
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 15: BONCATH........................................................................ 74
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 16: SOUTHERN HAVEN DEVELOPED.................................... 78
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 17: MYNYDD PRESELI UPLANDS........................................... 82
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 18: EASTERN CLEDDAU VALLEYS........................................... 86
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 19: NARBERTH AND LAMPETER VALE................................... 90
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 20: JEFFREYSTON LOWLANDS............................................... 94
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 21: PENALLY........................................................................... 99
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 22: MILFORD HAVEN.............................................................. 103
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 23: SOUTHERN HAVEN INDUSTRIAL FRINGE........................ 107
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 24: SOUTHERN HAVEN MUDFLATS........................................ 111
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 25: HUNDLETON AND LAMPHEY........................................... 114
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 26: MAENCLOCHOG................................................................ 118
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 27: TRECWN............................................................................. 122
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 28: TREFFGARNE GORGE......................................................... 126
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AREA 29: COSHESTON PENINSULA.................................................. 130
Appendix 1 LANDMAP................................................................................................................ 134
Appendix 2 LCA LANDMAP layers.............................................................................................. 135
Your Views
Please take the time to consider the draft Landscape Character Assessment.
We would be grateful if you could send comments by email to ldp@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
Alternatively post your comments to Julie Kirk, Development Planning, Pembrokeshire County Council, County Hall, Haverfordwest, SA61 1TP.
Please ensure that we receive your comments by 5pm on the 16th September 2019.
Local Development Plans (LDPs) contain policies and proposals that provide a basis for decision-making on planning applications and for framing conditions on consented applications. The Council's LDP was adopted on 28th February 2013.
Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) sets out more detailed guidance on the way in which policies of the LDP will be applied in particular circumstances or areas.
SPG does not form a part of the Council's LDP, but it is consistent with its provisions and is cross-referenced to appropriate policies and / or proposals of the LDP.
Only LDP policies and proposals have special status (primacy) in decision-making on planning applications. However, once adopted, SPG may be taken into account as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications.
Adopted SPG
The Council has adopted the following items of SPG to support its LDP, following public consultation and consideration by Cabinet:
Development Sites
Development Sites - Updated version, December 2016
Consultation Report (August 2013)
Renewable Energy- approved on 31st October 2016 and came into force on 31st October 2016
Renewable Energy - Consultation Report
Planning Obligations - approved 12th September 2016 and came into force 16th September 2016
Affordable Housing- approved on 14th September 2015 and came into force on 14th September 2015
Unilateral Undertaking - Notes
Certificate of Title for Unilateral Planning Agreement
Certificate of Title for Unilateral Planning Agreement
Biodiversity - approved on 19th May 2014 and came into force on 20th May 2014
BIODIVERSITY: How biodiversity can be protected and enhanced in the development process
Parking Standards - approved on 24th June 2013 and came into force on 28th June 2013
Future programme
The Council intends to prepare further items of SPG. Further details will be added to this webpage in due course.