LCA6F Rushmore Wooded Downs
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Rushmore Wooded Downs is typical of the wooded areas of the North Wessex Downs AONB scarp landscape. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the sense of intimate seclusion and mix of woodland, hedgerows with trees and rough grassland within the Rushmore Wooded Downs.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Maintain the existing relationship between landform and vegetation pattern
Maintain the strong sense of tranquillity
Agriculture
Encourage reversion of arable land to pasture
Maintain field sizes
Hedgerows
Maintain pattern of thick hedgerows
Woodland and Trees
Maintain existing levels of woodland cover
Biodiversity
Conserve, manage and restore chalk grassland
Land Use and Development
Built Developments
Maintain existing pattern of scattered farmhouses
Built form to reflect local pattern and materials
Infrastructure
Avoid visual and noise intrusion from tall elements and the A343