LCA6B Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods is most important for the extent and quality of its woodlands. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve the existing pattern of woodland and open fields within Compton with Parnholt and Michelmersh Woods whilst enhancing other habitats and extant historic features.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Protect the existing levels of tranquillity
Agriculture
Maintain existing field pattern and hedgerows
Encourage reversion of arable fields to pasture
Hedgerows
Enhance links created by hedgerows between woodlands and shelterbelts
Woodland and Trees
Encourage the replanting of conifer plantations with locally native broadleaved species
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
Built form to reflect local pattern and materials
Infrastructure
Avoid suburbanisation arising from introduction of inappropriate highway measures
Recreation, Tourism and Access
Encourage greater use of good footpath system
Minerals and Waste
Seek opportunities to restore the landscape of old and existing quarries, linking new planting into existing vegetation pattern
Resist creation of new sites
The landscape impact of any proposed waste after use should be carefully considered