LCA3C Tytherley and Mottisfont Wooded Farmland

Landscape Strategy and Guidelines

The landscape is generally well managed and is valued for its historic features and the high density of woodland and sense of seclusion from human activity. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the wooded seclusion and historic landscapes of Tytherley and Mottisfont Wooded Farmland.

Land Management

Landscape Distinctiveness

Maintain current levels of sense of seclusion and tranquillity

Continue to maintain the predominance of woodland and the contrast with the adjacent open arable areas and river valleys

Agriculture

Maintain the existing field pattern

Resist changes from pasture to arable use

Hedgerows

Encourage traditional methods of hedge management

Maintain hedgerow field boundaries

Woodland and Trees

Encourage the retention of hedgerow trees and individual specimens in the landscape

Maintain current woodland cover and promote good woodland management

Biodiversity

Protect watercourses and wetlands by minimising pollution, soil erosion and construction projects

Encourage agricultural management that will protect and enhance remnant unimproved grasslands

Encourage heathland restoration

Historic Landscapes

Protect the setting of local historic landscapes

Encourage the restoration of parkland and park estate features

Land Use and Development

Built Developments

Protect and enhance the landscape setting to local villages

Maintain the existing settlement pattern

Built form to reflect local pattern and materials

New development to be carefully integrated into the landscape

Infrastructure

Avoid suburbanisation arising from introduction of inappropriate highway measures

Seek opportunities to reduce the visual impact of overhead power lines

Volume 1: LCA3C Landscape Character Types and Areas