LCA10G Cholderton Downs
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Cholderton Downs is a more fragmented and enclosed landscape than much of this landscape type, but it is noted for its historic features. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the quiet open parkland character of Cholderton Downs.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Maintain sense of remoteness and tranquillity
Protect significant open vistas from visual intrusion
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
Hedgerows
Restore lost and fragmented hedgerows on former hedgerow lines
Seek opportunities mitigate impact from existing and future development through new hedgerow planting
Woodland and Trees
Seek opportunities for new woodland planting to link existing wooded areas and integrate modern development into the landscape
Promote good management of woodlands
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
Avoid further erosion of historic landscapes and the destruction of extant earthworks by modern agricultural methods
Protect and enhance parkland features
Land Use and Development
Built Developments
Development to respond to the local characteristics of the landscape
Maintain the historic integrity of the existing settlement patternInfrastructure
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