5.3 A Landscape - led Approach
Inevitably much of the work of the Sussex Downs Conservation Board must be carried out incrementally and will involve working closely with farmers, landowners and a range of statutory and local authority agencies. This implies that a strategic approach is of critical importance if landscape change is to be directed positively, creatively and effectively. This study provides a basis and starting point for the development of policies which are landscape-led. Its findings must now be combined with those of other specialists concerned with historic, nature conservation, archaeological and perceptual aspects of the AONB landscape. Taken together, the issues raised will be complex and closely intertwined, but very rarely incompatible. The challenge is to find coherent ways of sorting and implementing them. This landscape assessment should prove an effective means for guiding that process.
6.0 References
Countryside Commission (1987) Landscape assessment, a Countryside Commission approach. CCD 18.
Countryside Commission (1991) Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty : A policy statement. CCP 302.
Countryside Commission (1993) Landscape assessment guidance. CCP 423.
East Sussex Woodlands Forum (1990) A trees and woodland strategy for East Sussex, pub. East Sussex Woodland Forum.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1990), Environmentally Sensitive Areas - South Downs, Landscape assessment for monitoring
Mortimore, R.N. (1983) The Geology of Sussex, Chapter one in Sussex environment, landscapes and society, ed. Geography Editorial Committee, University of Sussex. Pub. Alan Sutton Ltd.
Rose, F. (1992) Report on the remaining heathlands of West Sussex, 1991-92, West Sussex Heathland Forum, Pub. West Sussex County Council.
Sparks, B.W. (1949) The denudation chronology of the dip-slope of the South Downs. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Vol 60, Part 3. 1949 pp 165-215.
Sussex Downs Conservation Board (1994) An archaeological strategy for the Sussex Downs AONB (Unpublished draft)
Sussex Downs Conservation Board (1994) An overview of the ecological interest of the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, (Unpublished Draft).
West Sussex County Council (1994) West Sussex landscape assessment, (Unpublished draft)
Williams, R.B.G. and Robinson, D.A. (1983) The landforms of Sussex, (1983) Chapter two in Sussex environment, landscapes and society, ed. Geography Editorial Committee, University of Sussex. Pub Alan Sutton.
