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Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Guidelines

Maidstone Borough Council commissioned The Landscape Partnership to undertake a description and assessment of the landscape character of Maidstone Borough.  It also serves as a manual giving practical guidance for regulating proposed landscaping schemes within the Borough in order to achieve an good quality design within developments in urban and rural areas.

• Introduction & General Landscape features of Maidstone Borough
• Physical Influences
• Historical and Cultural Influences
• Ecology & Landcover and Transportation
• Introduction Landscape Character Areas

Landscape Character Areas

Landscape Character Area Map

• Area 1: Boxley Vale      
  • Click on the following link for Area 1 Map

• Area 2: Bredhurst To Bicknor North Downs
  • Click on the following link for Area 2 Map 

• Area 3: Wormshill to Otterden North Downs
  • Click on the following link for Area 3 Map 

• Area 4: Hollingbourne Vale
  • Click on the following link for Area 4 Map 

• Area 5: North Maidstone Gault Clay Vale
  • Click on the following link for Area 5 Map 

• Area 6: Leeds Transport Corridor
  • Click on the following link for Area 6 Map 

• Area 7: Greensand Fruit Belt
  • Click on the following link for Area 7 Map

• Area 8: Coxheath Greensand Plateau
  • Click on the following link for Area 8 Map 

• Area 9: Greensand Ridge
  • Click on the following link for Area 9 Map

• Area 10: Southern Mixed Pasturelands
  • Click on the following link for Area 10 Map

• Area 11: Beult Valley
  • Click on the following link for Area 11 Map

• Area 12: Low Weald Fruit Belt
  • Click on the following link for Area 12 Map

• Area 13: Teise and Upper Medway Valleys
  • Click on the following link for Area 13 Map

• Area 14: Valeside Parklands
  • Click on the following link for Area 14 Map

• Area 15: Middle Medway Valley
  • Click on the following link for Area 15 Map

• Area 16: Oaken Wood
  • Click on the following link for Area 16 Map

• Area 17: Maidstone Urban Area
  • Click on the following link for Area 17 Map

• Area 18: Lower Medway Valley
  • Click on the following link for Area 18 Map

• General Landscape Guidance
• Special Issues
• Landscape Policy Context
• Bibliography

Appendices

• Appendix 1: Field Assessment Sheets
• Appendix 2: Ornamental Tree and Shrub Species for Use in Historic Sites
• Appendix 3: Tree and Shrub Lists .

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