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The Site
St Andrews is the largest and most important town in East Fife, serving a substantial agricultural hinterland. The Site is situated to the west of St Andrews within the valley of the Kinness Burn. The land is bound by the Swilken Burn to the North, the A91 to the East, open farmland to the West and the Strathkinness Low Road to the South.
The Site consists of rolling arable landscape of medium sensitivity. The land includes area around Northbank Farm, ribbon development along Strathkinness High Road and existing university buildings and playing fields. The character of St Andrews’ natural and built environments gives rise to a number of important views that should be preserved, and indeed, enhanced.
Constraints
• Requirement to protect inter visibility between development and historic skyline
• Minimisation of impact on landscape of Special Landscape Areas (SLAs). SLAs form part of Scottish Government guidance to protect landscape areas of particular merit from inappropriate forms of development
• Minimisation of visual impacts
• Protection of Swilken Burn corridor, pond and landscaping at North Haugh
• Recording of archaeological features
• Protection of setting of Strathtyrum Estate and policies
• Minimisation of impact on adjoining land uses/buildings
• Limited access to countryside
• Lack of definable edge on western boundary
• Minimisation of impact on ‘green’ route into town (e.g. Strathkinness High Road)
• Protection of residential amenity
Opportunities
• To complement and support the existing town
• Enable the University to grow as an international centre of excellence of learning and research
• Accommodate current and future demand in St Andrews and East Fife for new homes, jobs and educational and leisure opportunities
• Create neighbourhoods that are sustainable, diverse and well-connected with one another and the rest of the town
• Help to relieve congestion in the existing town centre
• Improve access to the countryside
• Open up new public views of the historic skyline
• A new Secondary School for the town and to provide community space
• Provide for new areas of structural landscaping, connected to the surrounding area
• Define a Western edge to the town linking the southern (Kinness Burn) edge to an enhanced northern (Swilken Burn) edge.
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