Policy information sourced from Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development

CSTP23 – THURROCK CHARACTER AND DISTINCTIVENESS

The Council will protect, manage and enhance the character of Thurrock to ensure improved quality and strengthened sense of place.

  • The Council identifies the following key areas where character is a key issue:
    • Regeneration Areas
    • Lakeside Basin
    • Strategic Employment Hubs
    • High volume transport networks
    • Urban Fringe
    • Town/Village centres vii. Historically Sensitive Areas
    • Strategic Natural and Semi- Natural Spaces
    • Strategic Multifunctional Green Space
    • Rural landscapes
    • Green Belt
    • Wooded Hills
    • Residential Precincts comprising distinctly spacious residential areas and the intensively developed Homesteads ward
    • Small scale sites where development may contribute to cumulative degradation.
  • The Council requires the retention and enhancement of significant natural, historic and built features which contribute to the character of the Borough as defined by their value, quality, cultural association and meaning or their relationship to the setting and local context.
  • The Council requires the retention and enhancement of strategic and local views, which contribute to a distinctive sense of place. Where development will affect these views, their sensitivity and capacity for change must be adequately assessed and the effect of the development on them appropriately tested.

In order to assess the sensitivity and capacity for change of Thurrock’s character, the Council will require an assessment based on The Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, or other methodology supported by the Council.

The Council will provide further guidance in the Design and Sustainability SPD.

Key Diagrams and Maps

Map 4: Location of Landscape Character Areas

Residential Precincts are identified on the Interim Adopted Proposals Map.

For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development