PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments·Page 22·4.28
Vegetation Integration and Settlement Edge Buffer Planting
Developments should include a hierarchy of planting types including street trees, garden trees, hedges and specimen trees. Buffer planting of indigenous species approximately 8-10 metres in depth is required at settlement edges to assimilate development and soften its impact on the countryside.
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 trees and amenity planting in open spaces. The integration of development at the edges of settlements is also important and buffer planting, generally of indigenous species (around 8-10 metres in depth), will be required to help assimilate and soften its impact on the countryside.
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