LCA6G Faccombe Wooded Downs

Landscape Strategy and Guidelines

The Faccombe Wooded Downs is typical of the wooded areas of the North Wessex Downs AONB scarp landscape on the edge of open downland. It is noted for its woodland seclusion within a varied topography. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the wooded slopes and farmland mosaic of Faccombe Wooded Downs.

Land Management

Landscape Distinctiveness

Maintain the diversity of landscape features and variety of spatial experience

Maintain the sense of quiet seclusion

Agriculture

Avoid further extension of arable land use particularly into the southern wooded slopes

Hedgerows

Seek opportunities to restore hedgerows to former field boundariesWoodland and Trees

Take care to avoid damage to any possible prehistoric field systems or settlements within Faccombe Wood

Maintain strong woodland cover

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 introduction of tall structures except where they can be satisfactorily sited to limit visual intrusion

Development to be small in scale and well sited, taking advantage of vegetation cover, to conserve the sense of remoteness and tranquillity

Volume 1: LCA6G Landscape Character Types and Areas