Landscape Requirements in Respect of Planning Applications

• A survey of existing site features.
• Details of existing features of landscape, amenity or nature conservation interest to be retained, identifying that which is intended for removal as part of the proposals.
• Details of both ´hard´ and ´soft´ landscape proposals to include walls, screen mounding and earth contouring, paving and surfacing, as well as the proposed plant size, species and location of trees, shrubs and herbaceous material on a scale plan.
• Outline planning applications should include, as a minimum, a landscaping scheme in sketch form, to scale, sufficient to convey, the broad principle of what is intended together with the amount of land to be set aside for landscape treatment. In such cases the requirement for any subsequent fully detailed landscape scheme will then become a reserved matter.
• All landscape schemes will be required to include a two year maintenance schedule.
• Where development sites include features of wildlife or amenity interest, such as streams, ponds or dry stone walls, a full survey to include an ecological assessment followed by a management plan, may be required.