LCA7C Linkenholt Downs
Landscape Strategy and Guidelines
The Linkenholt Downs is typical of the delicate balance between woodland and open arable land found within the North Wessex Downs AONB. The overall strategy is therefore to conserve this balance and to enhance the woodland and hedgerow structure of Linkenholt Downs.
Land Management
Landscape Distinctiveness
Maintain the present sense of remoteness and tranquillity
Agriculture
Discourage further amalgamation of fields and loss of hedgerows
Maintain the smaller field pattern near the settlements
Hedgerows
Seek opportunities to provide hedgerow links with adjacent woodland and replace former hedgerow boundaries
Woodland and Trees
Reinforce pattern of small copses, spinneys and shelter belts with wooded scarps
Biodiversity
Conserve, manage and restore chalk grassland
Introduce buffer strips at the edge of arable fields
Historic Landscapes
Conserve the present settlement pattern and form
Conserve and enhance the landscape setting to settlements and historic landscapes
Land Use and Development
Built Developments
Limit development in order to conserve the sense of remoteness and tranquillity, and settlement form
Infrastructure
Development to be very limited and well sited to conserve the sense of remoteness and tranquillity
Seek an opportunity to bury power lines underground