PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments·Page 22·4.27
Greening and Biodiversity in Landscape Design
The Department prioritises using vegetation and greening to improve residential development quality and promote biodiversity. Existing landscape features like streams, hedgerows and trees should be identified, retained and integrated into developments with adequate open space; where trees are removed, compensatory planting is expected.
The Department attaches particular importance to using 'greening' to raise the quality of residential development and assist in the promotion of biodiversity. As already indicated, existing landscape features such as streams, hedgerows or trees should be identified and, where appropriate, retained and suitably integrated into developments, together with the provision of adequate open space in their vicinity to ensure they and their visual setting are protected. Where existing trees are removed the Department will expect the layout to include proposals for compensatory tree planting.
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