Landscape Architecture Portfolio

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

KENTO MATSUSHITA

2011 - 2014

The University of Sheffield kento-m@hotmail.co.uk

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APPENDIX This Portfolio has been created to fully represent the works I have done during my 3 Year Landscape Architecture Course at the University of Sheffield. All of the Works used in this Portfolio has been created by myself or collaborated with others Note that this Portfolio is under progress and new materials will be added later on.

For more information or any inquiries, please contact me with the email provided below.

MATSERPLAN COMPUTER MODEL PLANT KNOWLEDGE PHOTOSHOP RENDERING HAND DRAWING HAND MODEL SURVEY + RESEARCH LAYOUT

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The Keeno’s Landscape

- Introducing cafes and services that creates a resting area and a benefit for users to go to this part of the site

2nd year Project

3rd Year Module

- Place stones on the banks of the dams which facilitate the accessibility of the users

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LSC 301 Environmental Assessment Commisioned by Cobex Ltd. Howbrook: South Yorkshire Registration number: 110233006

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VISUALISATION

LOCATION: Sheffield City Centre, UK PROJECT DATE: January 2013 - March 2013 PROJECT SCALE: Group Project (2 Members)

Sheffield Cultural Industry Quarter (CIQ), is located within the City Centre, just South of the main train station. Considering the high footfall of both the locals and visitors, the unattractive appearance of this area was one of the key issues for the Sheffield City Council to regenerate.

This Project looks into converting this area with more attractive and lively qualities, while valuing the local character, demand, tradition and the locals. The regeneration of this area would effect other parts of the Sheffield, as it is located in one of the most important part of this City and the long term scale and the flexibility of being incorporated in other areas were also investigated

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Many Walls of the unused buildings had Graffiti on, but represented the local character well

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The Car Park was not use to its potential and created a diagonal desire line through it

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A Factory with a frontage that represents the traditional character of the site

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A stream, hidden away by the surrounding buildings

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VISUAL MODELS

AREA LOCATION

AREA LOCATION

FIGURE ‘A’ DETAIL A 20 x 20 metre Space was chosen for this Design. It is located on the Northwest quarter of the Matilda Street and StreetSpace Junction A 20Sidney x 20 metre was and is seen clearly fromIteach chosen for this Design. is end of the therefore it located on streets, the Northwest has the potential to catch the quarter of the Matilda Street pedestrians eyes and attract and Sidney Street Junction themis to theclearly newly from Developed and seen each CIQ Area. end of the streets, therefore it

has the potential to catch the pedestrians eyes and attract them to the newly Developed CIQ Area.

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FIGURE ‘A’ DETAIL

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This Planter provides seatings for the users and has a large glass roof for rain water and UV protection

Back This Planter provides seatings for the users and has a large glass roof for rain water and UV protection

Back This design is flexible to further development, as there is a large portion of underused open space surrounding it.

ISOMETRIC PLAN

This design is flexible to further development, as there is a large portion of underused open space surrounding it.

HAND MODELS

ISOMETRIC PLAN

LSC 212 DETAILED AREA DESIGN

This is an isometric visualisation of the area from the Matilda Street side. The line of hornbeams provides an opportunity for a boulevard This is an isometric visuin the future and the choice of alisation of the area from the colourful and bright speices of Matilda Street side. The line plants were chosen to reflect of hornbeams provides an the enjoyable aspect of the opportunity for a boulevard design and to provide a better in the future and the choice of ecological value and diveristy colourful and bright speices of to the CIQ. The choices of the plants were chosen to reflect red bricks were to reflect the the enjoyable aspect of the exisitng texture of the local design and to provide a better buildings and also the radical ecological value and diveristy permeable paving and curved to the CIQ. The choices of the wood panels were designed to red bricks were to reflect the promote a modern and high exisitng texture of the local specification design throughbuildings and also the radical out the CIQ permeable paving and curved wood panels were designed to promote a modern and high specification design throughout the CIQ

The back side wall provides athe local young adult culture and character to thrive.

The Red Area represents the public and seen Space, while the Green Area is the semi-private and unseen From Left to Right: Space.

Theculture Yellow and Circle shows the junction of the The back side wall provides athe local young adult character to thrive. streets where many of users see this spacewithin and the A Model a will Pocket Park represents howsite the wall has effectively blocked the the The Red Area represents the public and seen Space, sight to give more privacy. The wall which would be while - the Green Area is the semi-private and unseen “strips” wherefor this decoratedThe in grafitti can beof an texture attracting factor Space. The Yellow Circle shows the junction of the Space. placed on the buildings to prostreets where will see this and the videmany the users character of space the buildrepresents how in the awall has effectively blocked the ings subtle and conceptual sight to give waymore privacy. The wall which would be decorated in grafitti can be an attracting factor for this Space. Every floor of the buildings were labelled with their designated uses and in a way to show the concept of multi- use buildings

Designed to control the rain water to the vegetation as an efficient drainage system

Designed to control the rain water to the vegetation as an efficient drainage system

‘An Expanding Modern Outdoor Space’

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An Image of the whole Model. The size was about 100cm in Length and 50cm in Width

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RIVELIN VALLEY

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MASTERPLAN

LOCATION: Sheffield Western Fringe, UK PROJECT DATE: October 2013 - December 2013 PROJECT SCALE: Individual Project

Rivelin Valley is located in the outskirts of Sheffield, gifted with historical remanence, variety of plant species, areas for recreation and the Rivelin River. This project concentrated on revealing the Historical Remains of the Bridges, Sculptures and Dams to provide the visitor with the knowledge and the characteristics of the site.

The Site was the largest in size among all of the projects and concentrated on the strategical approach of landscape design, rather than the smaller interventions; an intervention that could be carried out throughout the site. For instance, facilitating access to historical features near the river by introducing stepping stones were carried out with all the Bridges, Sculptures and Dams.

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Image of a chair sculpture in the Middle of the river

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Historical Bridge that highlights the traditional character of the site

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Some paths on the site were not paved and were created naturally

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Remanence of a small dam creates a feature within the site

Visualisation

actions in different timescale

- Cut overgrown vegetation to reveal the Roscoe Bridge

- Place boardwalks along wetlands for a cleaner journey

- Place stepping stones to enhance the parallel movement along the river

- Place signboards that guide and educate the users about the historical character

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VISUALISATIONS

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- Place boardwalks along wetlands for a cleaner journey

- Introduce access to the river by creating steps and clearing of weeds and brambles

SKETCHES - Cut overgrown vegetation to reveal the Roscoe Bridge

- Place signboards that guide and educate the users about the historical character

rney between the board walks are placed in wetlands to facilitate Sign boards are put in place of inaccesible and stepping stonesremenance to enhanceto theeducate parallelthe movement along the riverand are made from recycled wood ctions with water - Place movement invisible historical users

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The location of each images are shown on the historical remenance map on the bottom left.

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- Place stones on the banks of the dams which facilitate the accessibility of the users

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The sequence of movement of space from the formal entrance to the exit using the Main trail. The alphabet labels the visualisations found in other parts of the page.

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- Introducing cafes and services that creates a resting area and a benefit for users to go to this part of the site This part of thealong site act as one for of the major journey role in supporting user flow down to the site. Its key aims - Place boardwalks wetlands a cleaner fic vehicles ie trucks, to: aced in wetlands to facilitate are barriers made from recycled wood creates restric- Place stones on the banks of the dams which facilitate the accessibility of the users - Place signboards that guide educate the users areas about on thethe historical character e made from recycled wood tion ofand access to dangerous site - Improve the edge of the Nether Cut Dam to facilitate interaction by placing rocks that leads deep inside the dam for users. its best condition and

- Create a feeling of openess, a different character from the rest of the site, to make a smotth transition with the Rivelin Valley Road area

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- Introduce reeds and other waterside vegetation to enhance the biodiversity of the area and attraction of wildlife ie. ducks, frogs etc.

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- Introducing cafes and services that creates a resting area and a benefit for users to go to this part of the site

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LOCATION: Sheffield City Centre, UK PROJECT DATE: January 2013 - May 2013 PROJECT SCALE: Individual Project

This Project was an attempt to Economically Regenerate an Underused part of Sheffield City Centre.

This required us to investigate the economical profits gained from a building in a floor level, thus manipulating with the value of the site through different uses that includes: Accommodation, Office, Retail, Multi- Storey Car Parking, Restaurant and an Information Centre.

The Distributions of all the buildings had took into careful considerations of Accessibility, Shadowing, Visibility, Convenience and MultiUses.

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The Corner of the site with overgrown vegetation, littering and a clear desire line

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Unattractive frontages of the surrounding run-down industries

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Car Parking Area, mostly commuters to the Law Courts

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An Image of the Law Courts

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Left : The Masterplan of the site, after introducing the new buildings and vegetations Top Right: A night visualisation of the information Centre, one of the landmark buildings that is incorporated in an attempt to bring in more footfall Right: This map shows the movements, access points of the buildings and the road, with connections with the open spaces.

Bottom: A night rendered section of the site, as this area is also targeted fro users to used around evenings and even late at night.

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SITE ANALYSIS MediaCityUK The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ Opened in March, 2013 Landscape Design: Gillespies MediaCItyUK located next to the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal.

It was developed for a mixed - use property development site, which is still ongoing at this stage. The site has cool winds coming from the South side and has moderate European climate and temperatures. The open space might make wind vulnerable species harder to thrive.

12 plant species were chosen from the planting in the Garden area of the development, Just North of the MediaCityUK tram station. It uses many native species which are aimed to bring biodiversity to the site, but at the same time considering its large scale, many species are not mature in size, about half of their ultimate height.

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Berberis thunbergii

- It would be interesting to observe how the landscape will turn out in a couple of years time, when the plants have grown taller, thus changing the experience of the landscape. There are many species planted in a tight area and in which the vigorous species my take over the weaker ones

Pieris japonica ‘Blush’ Abelia x grandiflora

- There are many types of experience you can have on this site due to different topography and series of different plantings. The designer has succesfully placed the species in order to assist the user with variety of experiences they can have on the landscape.

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- The planting around the site makes a cozy relaxing spot for workers within this property development. The seats and gathering spots are tucked within the vegetation to try and make users inteact with the species and understand the value and purposes of the plants

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LVIA The Keeno’s Landscape

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PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT 2.3 Phase Development

LOCATION: South Barnsley, UK

18 ha out of the 48 ha total of the site is proposed for coal mining. The rest of the land will remain untouched or used for temporary soil storage, coal processing and access for machineries and vehicles during the process.

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Cobex expects to extract an approximate of 160,000 T of coal and 15,000 T of associated clay from the site. This work is planned out in a total of 4 phases that is predicted to take 20 months until completion. Each phase has different character and Landscape + Visual effects

Produced on February 2014

PHASE 2 The Keeno’s Landscape

LSC 301 Environmental Assessment Howbrook, South Yorkshire 110233006

3.3 Local Policies

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EIA allows the “identification, prediction and evaluation of the key environmental effects of a change or development, and use of the information gathered both to reduce likely adverse effects during the design of the project and to inform the decision making process. (Landscape Institute, 2011)

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Since the Natural England has been responsible for the EIA regulations in October 2006, projects that physically restructure rural land holdings or agricultural value are required to carry out the EIA when it is subjected to at least one of the following:

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Zone of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV)- similar to ZVI, but only considering landform LVIA will be subdivided into two categories: the Landscape quality and Visual quality. The Structure of the document will also revolve around this subdivision. (Figure A)

LSC 301 Environmental Assessment Howbrook, South Yorkshire 110233006

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At a more local scale, the rules of the Barnsley Unitary Development Plan is applied for planning applications. There is a large section on the mineral excavation policy, especially concerns with the restoration process, as these tend to influence the local communities largely.

This section of the area will be excavated in the later part of the proposed development, strictly speaking, the 40m wide dip cuts only starts from Phase 4. As this area has a poor visual quality of overlooking the distance, large percentage of the visible land will be influenced by the development.

Public bodies, industrial and commercial firms and public utilities will be encouraged to improve the appearance of their operational land. They should give particular attention to improving non operational land, including early release for reclamation.

Planning applications will also be considered in terms of their cumulative environmental impacts in conjunction with other sites and the impact upon economic regeneration proposals.

Planning permission will be refused where :

LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Figure A - This Diagram shows the two main qualities that makes the LVIA

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Figure H - Map of ZTV of the site

The restoration and improvement of existing derelict or unused land, and the creation of features of benefit to the community, will be sought in new working proposals.

The final contours of the restored site should where possible resemble that of the landscape characteristic of the locality. Restoration schemes should in appropriate cases provide opportunity to establish new wildlife habitats or enhance existing habitats and preserve and retain important geological exposures for educational use.

Planning permission for mineral workings will not normally be granted where it is proposed to remove significant trees or hedges, and woodland of amenity, landscape, nature conservation or screening value. Where proposals which would disturb trees and woodland are approved, conditions (and where necessary legal agreements) will normally require replacement as part of the restoration scheme and shall provide for after-care management for a period of five years.

Replacement trees may be required in a different position to those removed where this would improve the amenity or agricultural efficiency of the restored site or screen the working site.

The borough council will seek the forestry commission’s advice and assistance in implementing the policy of Aftercare management of land. Advance landscaping will be sought where possible.

Where a site approved for mineral working contains more than one economic mineral, the council will encourage the undertakers of such workings to extract and market all minerals on the site to prevent loss of valuable reserves.

LSC 301 Environmental Assessment Howbrook, South Yorkshire 110233006

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PLANNING REPORT

LSC 301 Environmental Assessment Howbrook, South Yorkshire 110233006

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Location of the site

Medium Visibility

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Zone of Visual Influence (ZVI)- representing how the proposed development will be seen

VISUAL EFFECTS

This screening mound will be around 10m in height in the Western end and up to 20m in the Eastern end

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The Visual effects on the Landscape will be assessed using the following visual indicators:

LANDSCAPE EFFECTS

The overburden will make a screening mound for the coal processing area

PLANNING POLICIES

The Keeno’s Landscape

LVIA

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) is a separate but closely linked process that operates within the overall framework of EIA. It specifically aims to ensure that all possible effects of change and development both on the landscape itself and on views and visual amenity, are taken into account in decision-making (Landscape Institute, 2011)

Effects on views and visual amenity

The shapes from the data collected suggests a large elevated area on the Southwestern part of the site that creates a direct and indirect view to the site. It also goes to show that the settlement just Southeast of the site can be pointed out as a location for poor visibility towards the site, reflecting a declining topography in that area.

B) the proposal would have a significantly adverse impact on proposals for economic regeneration.

The Proposed development is subjected to the 2nd one and will be required to carry out the EIA accordingly.

Effects on landscape as a resource

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A) the cumulative impact of proposals in conjunction with other sites Would result in an unacceptably long period of environmental disruption and loss of amenity,

4. Increase in the productivity for agriculture on uncultivated or seminatural land of more than 2 ha

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Zone of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV) is a tool that pin-points the area of visibility by the judging the distance of the site with the topography. This provides a quick and easy data of how a given place (the site) is theoretically seen from the site. This data assumes that there are no obstacles that will hinder the visibility from the area of observation..

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It is anticipated that this phase will take around 8 weeks

The EIA was initially introduced by the Council Directive 85/337EEC, amended later on by 97/11/ EC and was then adopted on by the Town and Country Planning Regulations in 199 in the UK

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This report is produced to support the permission of a coal mining application, therefore it looks into how the negative impacts are mitigated and restored afterwards and how it follows and avoids breaching of the existing Planning Policies

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1. Purpose of the document

PROJECT DATE: November 2013 - February 2014 PROJECT SCALE: Individual Project

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This document is produced to rationally explain the opportunities of the implementation of a more efficient and effective Landscape Planning Policies within the Gondor District Local Development Framework (LDF) by the approval of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) by the UK.

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The document will take into account the Landscape requirements and guides of the UK National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) as well as other national agencies with a correspondence to landscape issues which includes the Natural England and the English Heritage.

LOCATION: Gondor District (Imaginary)

2. Landscape Background of Gondor 2.1

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Gondor Council Planning Policy Section

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The Character areas are then judged from this data and were classified in different scales of Regional, Sub-regional and Local scales. By acknowledging the characteristics of the landscape at a precise scale, it provide the opportunity for the Durham County Council to develop a policy that reflects these areas indivdually, and not focusing on the landscape as a single unit. It also provides easier predictions of what needs to be implemented in the future, as the similar character areas have a higher chance of going through a similar problem concerning landscape protection and management

The Gondor District LDF can implement the ELC effectively by following these procedures.

1. Carry out a LCA and HLC within the districts of Gondor and identify the key characterist of the area and distinguish any areas that overlap with other districts with the same or similar landscape character 2. Make judgements and the molding of the policies within the LDF by considering the information gathered in stage 1. Implement the principles of the ELC (especially the protection, management and planning of the landscape) so that it runs harmoniously with the NPPF and the approaches of other environemntal agencies 3. Create policies that encourages the monitoring the landscape for future considerations 4. Provide anual reports on the landscape that are monitored and carry out the whole process when it is judged to be obsolete and ineffective.

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The ELC should be smoothly implemented into the Gondor District LDF as it has similar key approaches to the national guidance such as the NPPF and other agencies. It is also not a particular requirement for the ELC to be implemented into local plans so it provides a large flexibility when trying to implement with existing and required policies and also collisions can be avoided

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The Gondor district will largerly benefit from the ELC as it consist mainly of rural landscapes and strongly reflects the district’s heritage and values. The effective protection and management of these areas can help maintain the character of the district and lead to an efficient and efficient use of the landscapes. It also encourages the use of LCA to assess these areas, which will also follow the objecttives given by the ELC.

Landscape - an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors

Landscape Policy - an expression by the competent public authorities of general principles, strategies and guidelines that permit the taking of specific measures aimed at the protection, management and planning of landscapes

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Gondor is situated within the Yorkshire and Humber region and is made up from small rural villages that is formed around the market town of Gondor. The landscape within this district is gifted with many landscape characteristics and some with historical values which falls within the interest of the English Heritage. Being the part of Yorkshire and Humber region, it is under the regional guidance of the Regional Planning Guidance for Yorkshire and Humber.

To fully understand the approaches and the principles provided by the European Landscape Convention, the definitions and views of landscape by the ELC is needed to be acknowledged.

The definitions are provided to minimise the confusion and the misinterpretation of the languages used in this document.

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10. Conclusion and Implementation of the ELC

3. Definitions of Wordings used by European Landscape Convention

This Report was written to an imaginary planning officer, highlighting the importance of Landscape Planning Policies in the District of Gondor, also an imaginary district within South Yorkshire.

This Report required us to look deeply into a Local Planning Guidances and Frameworks, extracting the important sections within the setting of this District. It had led me to investigate how the UK Planning policies attempts to protect, conserve and enhance the landscape and open spaces; in the National, Regional and Local scales

VISUAL EFFECT ASSESSMENT

6.1 Zone of Theoretical Visibility

The Top soil and sub soil on area of excavation, access, placing of soil and processing of coal are removed before the excavation. This process is estimated to take 2 months

Access into the site is created on the South East end of the site

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1. Removal or addition of 4km or more of field boundaries. These include Hedgerows, banks, fences, ditches, tracks, walls and any other kind of boundaries

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Subsoils will be stored on mounds of maximum of 10m in height

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LANDSCAPE VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)was carried out on a site just South of Barnsley and North of Sheffield, which a coal mining application was previously declined due to lack of investigation in the negative Landscape and Visual influences and the execution to mitigating it.

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Landscape Quality Objective - the formulation by the competent public authorities of the aspirations of the public with regard to the landscape features of their surroundings for a specific landscape

Landscape Protection - actions to conserve and maintain the significant or characteristic features of a landscape, justified by its heritage value derived from its natural configuration and/ or from human activity

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LOCATION: Northern Chandigarh, India PROJECT DATE: August 2013 - Ongoing PROJECT SCALE: Group Project (2 members)

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