LCA3A Baddesley Mixed Farmland and Woodland
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
Although the area has a number of distinctive features, overall the landscape has become fragmented. The overall strategy is to restore and enhance the landscape structure of woodland linked by hedgerows within Baddesley Mixed Farmland and Woodland.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Reinforce existing local features and add to woodland structure
Agriculture
Encourage reversion of arable land to pasture
Discourage merging of remaining smaller fields
Seek to ensure that local changes to agricultural land uses are well managed and retain and strengthen the existing landscape structure
Hedgerows
Restore hedgerows and encourage replanting of former hedgerow lines
Woodland and Trees
Encourage new planting of woodlands in keeping with existing local woodland pattern
Maintain existing woodland cover and encourage active management including coppicing, particularly in areas close to settlements
Biodiversity
Protect watercourses and wetlands by minimising pollution, soil erosion and construction projects
Encourage agricultural management that will protect and enhance remnant unimproved grasslands
Prevent loss of remnant heathland and encourage heathland restoration
Historic Landscapes
Maintain the patchwork of informal 17th and 18th century enclosure fields found within the hinterland of Romsey
Urban Fringe
Ensure that any development in the urban fringe landscape is designed so that it has a positive impact on the landscape.
Land Use and Development
Built Developments
Avoid loss of separate identity of well defined settlements through coalescence and homogeneous design
New development to be contained within a wooded or treed setting
Encourage new planting to screen and contain the edge of Romsey
Infrastructure
Protect the area from further noise and visual intrusion from the local major roads
New infrastructure projects to be carefully sited to minimise impact on the landscape.
New planting, in keeping with local characteristics, to be included to integrate and screen development proposals
Recreation, Tourism and Access
Encourage management of woodlands to enable greater public access