LCA6B Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods

Landscape Strategy and Guidelines

The Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods is most important for the extent and quality of its woodlands. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve the existing pattern of woodland and open fields within Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods whilst enhancing other habitats and extant historic features.

Land Management

Landscape Distinctiveness

Protect the existing levels of tranquillity

Agriculture

Maintain existing field pattern and hedgerows

Encourage reversion of arable fields to pasture

Hedgerows

Enhance links created by hedgerows between woodlands and shelterbelts

Woodland and Trees

Encourage the replanting of conifer plantations with locally native broadleaved species

Biodiversity

Conserve, manage and restore chalk grassland

Historic Landscapes

Maintain and enhance landscape setting to historic features and buildings

Land Use and Development

Built Developments

Built form to reflect local pattern and materials

Infrastructure

Avoid suburbanisation arising from introduction of inappropriate highway measures

Recreation, Tourism and Access

Encourage greater use of good footpath system

Minerals and Waste

Seek opportunities to restore the landscape of old and existing quarries, linking new planting into existing vegetation pattern

Resist creation of new sites

The landscape impact of any proposed waste after use should be carefully considered

Volume 1: LCA6B Landscape Character Types and Areas