LCA10G Cholderton Downs
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Cholderton Downs is a more fragmented and enclosed landscape than much of
this landscape type, but it is noted for its historic features. The overall
strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the quiet open parkland character
of Cholderton Downs. Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness- Maintain sense of remoteness and tranquillity
- Protect significant open vistas from visual intrusion
- Protect and enhance views to valued local landscape features
Agriculture- Seek opportunities to retain remaining small areas of pasture
- Discourage further amalgamation of fields and loss of hedgerows
- Encourage sustainable farming practices with a view to minimising the impact
of new farming infrastructure and methods including spraying and fertiliser
applications
- Encourage new farm buildings to be well sited and integrated into the landscape
Hedgerows- Restore lost and fragmented hedgerows on former hedgerow lines
- Seek opportunities mitigate impact from existing and future development through
new hedgerow planting
Woodland and Trees- Seek opportunities for new woodland planting to link existing wooded areas
and integrate modern development into the landscape
- Promote good management of woodlands
Biodiversity- Conserve, restore and manage remnant areas of unimproved chalk grassland
- Avoid further erosion of farmland biodiversity due to intensive agricultural
methods
- Seek opportunities to extend and link unimproved grassland and woodland habitats
Historic Landscapes- Protect the landscape setting to historic features
- Avoid further erosion of historic landscapes and the destruction of extant
earthworks by modern agricultural methods
- Protect and enhance parkland features
Land Use and Development
Built Developments- Development to respond to the local characteristics of the landscape
- Maintain the historic integrity of the existing settlement patternInfrastructure
- Seek opportunities to enhance roadside planting and minimise visual and noise
intrusion
- Avoid intrusive development of tall and large structures except
where they can be successfully integrated into the landscape
- Seek to minimise the visual intrusion and suburbanising effect arising from
highway infrastructure
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