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Chapter 6 I Green and Blue Infrastructure, Open Space and Biodiversity

Reference

Landscape

Landscape Assets to be

Site Specific Objectives

Preservation Zone (General Name)

protected

North-West

NW 13

Commons Road / Lover’s Walk Ridge

C, G, F

• To connect between Commons Road and Seminary Walk / Lover’s Walk

NW 14

Blackpool Valley (West) Ridge Commons Road

K, A, C, E, O

• To develop a woodland park on the southern valley slope to provide an attractive landscape feature at the gateway and to connect the rural landscape with the city; • To provide pedestrian linkages between residential areas at the top of the slope and Fitz’s Boreen and Sunbeam development area. • To develop a woodland park on the southern valley slope to provide an attractive landscape feature at the gateway and to connect the rural landscape with the city; • To conserve and enhance the lower portion of the ridge, including the existing hedgerow, by additional tree planting; • To conserve and enhance the landscape value of the upper portion of the ridge as an urban woodland; • To provide limited development in the middle portion of the ridge to provide long-term management of the whole ridge. Development should be in small-scale pavilion style inset in a strong landscape structure.

NW 15

New Mallow Road

K, A, C, E, O

/Blackpool Ridge (West)

NW 16

Lower Killeen’s Road

A, B, C, E, K, O

NW 17

(Former) Good Shepherd

C, G, H

• To provide landscape structure and open space in any redevelopment.

Convent

Table 6.6: Site-specific Landscape Preservation Zone Objectives (NW).

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