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          Section Five
          5 Site entrances and landscaping


          5.1 Car park entrances  to site are critically        5.3 Pedestrian entrances to  site are also
          important locations to incorporate areas of new       important.    Consideration  should  be  given
          planting, creating a good first impression.           to  removing /  reducing  the  height  of  existing
                                                                planting  in  these  locations  and  new  style
          5.2 Look to remove areas of ‘tired existing           planting incorporated.
          planting’ to entrances where possible  and
          replace  with  new  style planting to  give good      5.4 Formalising pedestrian entrances  can
          initial impact.                                       provide  opportunities  to  gain  ‘windows’ into
                                                                the site from adjoining roads, and make access
                                                                points more obvious to passing customers.


          Figure 8:
          Existing overgrown planting to car park entrance replaced with new style planting.





















          Figure 9:
          Existing pedestrian entrance ‘opened up’ by removal of existing planting and incorporation of new style planting
          around sky sign.
























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