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Rural Character in Villages and Settlements
4.23NI-wide·PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments
Many villages and smaller settlements in Northern Ireland display an essentially rural character, and proposals for housing development in such locations should reflect this in their design, layout an
dwellingruraldesignVegetation Integration and Settlement Edge Buffer Planting
4.28NI-wide·PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments
The Department will expect to see a greater use of vegetation within developments including a hierarchy of different types of planting such as street trees, garden trees and hedge planting, specimen t
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