LCA6G Faccombe Wooded Downs
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Faccombe Wooded Downs is typical of the wooded areas of the North Wessex Downs AONB scarp landscape on the edge of open downland. It is noted for its woodland seclusion within a varied topography. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve and enhance the wooded slopes and farmland mosaic of Faccombe Wooded Downs.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Maintain the diversity of landscape features and variety of spatial experience
Maintain the sense of quiet seclusion
Agriculture
Avoid further extension of arable land use particularly into the southern wooded slopes
Hedgerows
Seek opportunities to restore hedgerows to former field boundariesWoodland and Trees
Take care to avoid damage to any possible prehistoric field systems or settlements within Faccombe Wood
Maintain strong woodland cover
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
Maintain existing settlement pattern
Built form to reflect local pattern and materials
Infrastructure
Avoid introduction of tall structures except where they can be satisfactorily sited to limit visual intrusion
Development to be small in scale and well sited, taking advantage of vegetation cover, to conserve the sense of remoteness and tranquillity