Landscape Character Assessment

1 Landscape Character AssessmentEnvironment DirectoratePublished by Environment DirectorateLancashire County CouncilDecember 2000 Design - Graphics Unit - Environment Directorate Copies of this document from:Environment DirectorateLancashire County Council Cross Street Winckley House Preston PR1 8 RDWeb: : 01772 264115 Web: LCC & Countryside Agencysupported by:The Lancashire Landscape Strategy was commissioned by Lancashire County CouncilEnvironment Directorate with grant aid fromthe Countryside Agency and financial supportfrom the following local authorities;Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council,Burnley Borough Council,Chorley Borough Council,Fylde Borough Council,Hyndburn Borough Council,North Yorkshire County Council,Pendle Borough Council,Preston Borough Council,Ribble Valley Borough Council,South Ribble Borough Council,West Lancashire District Council,Wyre Borough study was prepared for LancashireCounty Council by.

2 Environmental Resources ManagementEaton House, Wallbrook Court,North Hinksey Lane, Oxford OX2 0 QSGeological Map based on British Geological Survey upon the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty s Stationery Office Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproductioninfringes Crown copyright and may lead toprosecution or civil County N LA 076716 Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character Scope and Context for this of the Landscape Character and of the Report32 The Evolution of Influences103 Lancashire s Landscape Character264 Lancashire s Urban Landscape Core (1100-1800) Age (1800-1930) (1930 ONWARDS)

3 115 Glossary117 Bibliography121 Acknowledgements122A Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentLIST OF FIGURESPage Figure 1 Study Area 5 Figure 2 The Character Map of England - The North West 6 Figure 3 Previous Landscape Assessments 7 Figure 4 Historic Landscape Types 21 Figure 5 Geology 22 Figure 6 Landform 23 Figure 7 Habitats 25 Figure 8 Landscape Character Types 28 & 29& Landscape Character Areas Figure 9 Urban Landscape Character Types 30 & 112A Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentLIST OF PHOTOGRAPHSP hotographTitle and Credit Page Williams1 2 Sabden, Forest of Bowland in winter.

4 Countryside Agency/Mike Williams 1 3 Low tide, Morecambe Sparks 2 4 Enclosure walls and Williams25 Aughton across the Lune Sparks 36 Roman Ruins, County Council 11 7 Rock cut graves, Sparks 13 8 Textile Mill, County Council 14 9 Stonyhurst County Council 17 10 Terraced County Council 1811&12 Upland Habitats, Littledale & Corn Marigolds, Hickling2413 Saltmarsh, Sparks2414 Worsthorne Moor. Countryside Agency/Mike Williams 3115 Trough of Williams 35 16 Langden Brook at Williams 3617 Forest of Williams 4118 Parlick, Forest of Bowland.

5 Countryside Agency/Mike Williams 43 19 Williams49 20 Read Williams5521 Brierfield Williams 5622 View from Millennium Williams 5923 Rawtenstall in Sparks 63 24 Anglezarke Reservoir, Williams65 25 Tarnbrook Williams 69 26 Frosty Morning, Crook O Sparks 73 27 Drumlins near Williams 77 28 Drumlin Field west of the Lune at Williams 81 29 Walled Lane south west of Gisburn Williams 85 30 Coastal Plain, Burscough.

6 Countryside Agency/Mike Williams 89 31 Downholland Williams 9332 Glasshouses near Banks. Countryside Agency/Mike Williams9433 Hesketh New Williams 9734 Warton Sands, south of Williams 9935 Sand dunes at Lytham St Jepson 10336 Warton Crag, view west to Morecambe Sparks10537 Limestone Pavement, Gait Barrows Nature Sparks10638 Limestone outcrop, Leck Williams 10939 Preston Flag County Council 11140 Backyards, County Council 114 41 Suburbs, south Sparks 115 Cover illustration:View across Burscough - Landscape Character Type 15, The Coastal Plain.

7 Countryside Agency/Mike in SparksA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentFlow Diagram showing links between the Landscape Assessment , historic Landscape Assessment andproduction of Landscape strategy and Landscape Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentLANDSCAPE ASSESSMENTE volution of Lancashire - Physical InfluencesHuman Influences Classification (Types & Areas)Description (Types & Areas)Urban Landscape TypesHISTORIC LANDSCAPEASSESSMENTC lassification (Historic Types)Description (Historic Types)Value and PerceptionsForces for ChangeImportanceSafeguarding the TypeLANDSCAPE STRATEGYF orces for Change (Study Area Wide)Key Environmental Features (Types)Local Forces for Change (Types)Implementing the StrategyIndicators of Landscape ChangeMonitoring Landscape ChangeSUPPLEMENTARY REPORTP rogramme for Monitoring ChangeTargetsLANDSCAPE POLICYCOUNTY COUNCILS tructure Plan PolicySupplementary Planning GuidanceDISTRICT COUNCILL ocal Plan PolicyDetailed District LandscapeAssessments and Policy Guidance.

8 West Lancashire District Council s Natural Areas and Areas of LandscapeHistory Importance (Potentially) Other District LandscapeAssessments(Potentially) Design Guidance(1) Countryside Commission (1987) Landscape Assessment : a Countryside Commission Approach, CCD 18, Countryside Commission, Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character AssessmentA Landscape Strategy for LancashireLandscape Character Assessment11 IntroductionIn October 1999, Environmental ResourcesManagement (ERM) were commissioned byLancashire County Council, in partnership withthe Countryside Agency, District Councils,Blackburn with Darwen Unitary Authority,North Yorkshire County Council and CravenDistrict Council, to undertake acomprehensive integrated Landscape andassessment of Lancashire including the urbanareas and to produce a Landscape strategyinformed by the Landscape characterassessment overall study consists of two separatereports;a Landscape Character Assessment anda Landscape Strategy.

9 This first report, thelandscape Character Assessment , is an objectivedescription and classification of the Lancashirelandscape. It forms the basis for the evaluationand guidance provided in the timescale of theLandscape Strategy is tobe concurrent with and reviewed during thereview period of the next Joint LancashireStructure Plan Scope and Context for this StudyThe study area is shown on Figure all of the administrative county ofLancashire, and Blackburn with DarwenUnitary authority and part of the CravenDistrict of North Yorkshire up to theboundary of the Yorkshire Dales National area was included to provide detailedassessment of the whole of the Bowland Fells.

10 Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill and LancashireValleys Countryside Character Areas asdefined in the Character Map of England. Forthe purpose of the report the Study isreferred to as a Landscape Strategy Landscape Character Assessment uses as astarting point the Countryside Agency sCharacter Map of England (Figure 2), andincorporates as far as possible informationfrom a number of earlier landscapeassessments carried out across the county, aswell as making reference to studies in adjacentareas.(Figure 3). In 1993 the County Councilcarried out a Landscape evaluation for thepurposes of the Structure Plan Review basedon Countryside Commission guidance(1)toidentify Landscape Character areas within theCounty.