Policy information sourced from the Campton & Chicksands Neighbourhood Plan

LHP1 Historic Environment (Archaeology & Landscape)

Conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment of the parish of Campton and Chicksands will be promoted by support for the following policy actions: -

  • Taking proper account of heritage assets, records of our historic environment and their value to the community during all development activities. In so doing seek to protect these assets and their context and raise awareness of the historic environments’ value.
  • Affording great importance to the avoidance of the loss of local landscape features and archaeological assets of historical interest.
  • Affording great importance to the protection of attractive views within, towards and from the settlements of Campton and Chicksands, in their setting along the southern boundary of the Greensand Ridge including: -
    • Registered Parks & Gardens
    • Open spaces recognised locally as important heritage assets and herein proposed for designation as Local Green Space.
    • The shallow valleys of the rivers Hit & Flit, the Sandy Smith Nature reserve, and pockets of ancient woodland together with other areas of managed forestry.

Any development which would have the effect of significantly reducing the inherent value of these public assets will not be supported.

For more information, please visit the Campton & Chicksands Neighbourhood Plan