LCA10E Drayton Chalk Downland
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Drayton Chalk Downland is a more disturbed area of open downland as a result of major changes. The overall strategy is therefore to restore and create a pattern of woodland and hedgerows, integrating both existing and any future development to help re-establish a quiet open rural character to Drayton Chalk Downland.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Maintain areas of remoteness and tranquillity
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
Encourage careful siting of new energy crops in keeping with the local landscape pattern and to create a positive contribution to the landscape
Hedgerows
Restore lost and fragmented hedgerows on former hedgerow lines
Woodland and Trees
Promote good management of woodlands
Seek opportunity to enhance and manage the woodland structure of Drayton Camp
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 such as Tidbury Ring
Avoid further erosion of historic landscapes due to modern agricultural methods
Land Use and Development
Built Developments
Careful consideration to be given to the environmental impact of alternative uses for redundant MOD land
Infrastructure
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