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Policy
Schemes must conserve and manage field boundaries, and strengthen where necessary through planting native species appropriate to local landscape character.
- Dataset
- Design code rule
- Reference
- N3.38
Policy
Schemes must conserve and manage field boundaries, and strengthen where necessary through planting native species appropriate to local landscape character.
Policy
Schemes must conserve and enhance existing hedgerows and restore where possible with hawthorn where gappy and depleted to emphasize the existing landscape character.
Policy
Development should seek to conserve restore marginal riverside habitat such as marshland and pasture, reed beds and off-stream wetlands.
Policy
Where proposals re-use farm buildings they must ensure they protect habitats for key species such as bats, barn owl and barn swallow.
Policy
Development should manage existing shelterbelts and restock to encourage young tree growth.
Policy
Proposals must retain, enhance and connect species-rich grassland and verges on thin chalk soils to promote biodiversity and deliver nature recovery.
Policy
Footpath routes must be enhanced with carefully sited woodlands at selected locations to frame views and enhance biodiversity.
Policy
In areas of chalk upland, schemes should plant and site carefully new mixed woodlands and shelterbelts to enclose vast tracts of farmland and emphasise landform and protect and enhance existing biodiversity assets.
Policy
Landscape character should be enhanced by planting new beech hangers on carefully sited knolls, hill-tops and scarps to form focal points to reinforce local chalklands landscape where these do not result in the loss of valuable grassland habitats.
Policy
Development must conserve and manage the ecological structure of woodland, copses and hedges within the character area.