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Beadnell Holiday Village

Client: Northumberland Estates

The landscape strategy for Beadnell is derived from the vision for the holiday village, which is given in the Design & Access Statement to be: 

“The design vision is to provide a development of high quality which reflects a modern and exciting coastal environment. The proposals should support the local facilities and improve Beadnell as a tourist destination.”

This is to be done by proposing an extensive landscape remodelling of the site so that the character of this part of Beadnell is reinforced, and visual and landscape impacts are kept to a minimum, by the creation of a safe, attractive village environment of high quality based upon local landscape types appropriate to this part of Northumberland. These landscape types are derived from the natural changes in the form and vegetation of the landscape as one moves from the high water mark of the beach inland.

By adopting such an ambitious concept, the development site will be able to offer users of the village and coast centre an attractive and characterful landscape setting with considerable recreational and ecological value. The changing sequence of the landscape as one moves into the site will be a distinctive feature of the holiday village and it will create a new landscape setting for the south western edge of Beadnell village. Indeed, the degree of landscape design is such that the scheme should have a major and beneficial effect in partially screening and accommodating the current raw,suburban edge of Beadnell.

The changes in the site landscape have been proposed following a review of the sequence of landscape types that one can experience locally. They are as follows:

- Dune based topography with grasses

- Dune hinterland with grasses

- Matrix of emerging scrubland with grassland

- Wetland

- Scrubland

- Woodland

The species proposed above have been selected to conform to the recommendations of the Northumberland Coast AONB Design Guide for the Built Environment and the Northumberland Coast AONB Management. 

The scheme won planning consent in Summer 2010

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