LCA6C Little Somborne Wooded Downs

Landscape Strategy and Guidelines

The area is valued for its quiet and tranquillity, which is threatened by its increasing popularity for recreational use. The overall strategy is to conserve the quiet and undisturbed combination of woodland and open pasture of the downs at Little Somborne Wooded Downs.

Land Management

Landscape Distinctiveness

Maintain distinctive chalk escarpments as features of the landscape

Agriculture

Encourage reversion of arable land to pasture

Maintain field sizes

Hedgerows

Maintain and enhance hedgerow coverage

Seek further opportunities to create hedgerow links between woodland

Woodland and Trees

Maintain and manage woodland and coppice

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

Maintain existing settlement pattern

Built form to reflect local pattern and materials

Infrastructure

Avoid suburbanisation arising from introduction of inappropriate highway measures

Avoid visual and noise intrusion from traffic on the A3057

Recreation, Tourism and Access

Seek opportunities to control erosion to sensitive chalk downland landscapes from high levels of public access

Maintain public recreational car parks in a good condition

Volume 1: LCA6C Landscape Character Types and Areas