Site Opportunities and Constraints
The Masterplans have been informed by an appraisal of the opportunities and constraints as shown on the plans on this page. There are opportunities for:
- New areas of public open space with children’s play facilities.
- New vehicular, cycle and pedestrian accesses onto Bennetts Road and Fivefield Road.
- New hedgerow, thicket and tree planting provides a chance to enhance green links through the site.
- The land is suitable for a sustainable urban drainage system, to manage surface water run-off from the site.
There are few constraints to development:
- An ancient woodland exists to the north, and development will need to be set back to avoid any impacts.
- A gas easement corridor and overhead cables run within the site and will be retained. Development will need to be offset from it.
- Public rights of way cross both parcels of land and will need to be considered when designing the layout.
- The interface between the development and the existing houses needs to be carefully considered.
- There is a low risk of fluvial flooding, with only limited areas of the site at risk of flooding along the Hall Brook which will be protected.
- A small number of trees are of value and will be retained.
