West Kent Downs • West Kingsdown to Shorne

http://www.kentdowns.org.uk/uploads/documents/West_Kent_Downs1.pdf

Key Characteristics

• Extensive deciduous woodlands surround large arable fields.
• Thick deciduous shaws and hedgerows.
• Remote, enclosed dry valleys with small pastures.
• Village settlements in the woodlands.
• Small network of country lanes.
• Large arable fields on plateaux

Overall Landscape Character Objectives

• To retain the agricultural character of the landscape, maintaining in particular the extensive deciduous woodlands and ameliorating urbanedge pressures.
• Curb urbanisation and loss of distinctiveness