1. The Green and the adjacent Strouds’ Field Nature Reserve should be retained as an open area. Any development in close proximity should be sympathetic to the present character
2. Every step should be taken where possible to ensure that the Pilhill Brook does not run dry.
3. Any new building in the floodplain of the Pillhill Brook should be avoided so that people and properties are not put at risk and potential winter flooding is minimised.
4. The footpath network must be maintained and verges kept to a reasonable height
5. Hedgerows should be maintained and enhanced.
6. Open spaces including garden areas that have the potential to encourage a variety of wildlife should where practicable be positively managed to provide appropriate habitats.
7. The Pillhill Brook riverbanks should be appropriately managed to provide an environment conducive to wildlife. Attempts to "suburbanize" the riverbanks should be avoided.
8. Any development should respect the open rolling landscape, and aim to maintain & preserve the views from all surrounding vantage points. In an area of minimal settlement, development should be one or two storey in order to minimise the impact upon the landscape structure. (TV Community Landscape Project: Landscape Character Assessment: Draft Summary for consultation October 2003.)

1. All new development should respect the local characteristics (and historic pattern) of the existing settlements which are generally low-lying and in proximity to the road network and watercourses.
2. The existing open spaces between settlements should be kept.
3. Typically, cottages or terraces fill plots; while larger-scale houses retain more space around them. This pattern should be respected by any new development. Where larger plots are to be considered for sub-division, dense or crammed development should be avoided as it is not typical of the current settlement pattern of relatively newer properties not at the centre of the historic settlements.
4. Buildings on infill plots should be designed to complement the settlement character of the immediate area.
5. Barns associated with houses are traditional features and should be retained within the curtilage of the property.
6. Solar panels, television aerials and satellite dishes should be sited unobtrusively wherever possible.
7. New boundaries should be in keeping with the character of those in close proximity using indigenous local species. Across much of the parish there is generally mixed hedging, kept to a height of approx. 1.5m. In Furzedown Lane (Amport) boundary screening is more substantial and reaches to a greater height.
8. New development should seek imaginative ways of incorporating the need for car parking (e.g. Fairways has suffered due to the long-term rise in car ownership) without the car parking dominating the appearance of such a development and/or its use by other users notably pedestrians and cyclists.

Design

1. Well designed contemporary houses which draw on local materials and styles are to be welcomed.
2. New houses & other structures should wherever possible be built on a scale sympathetic to and reflecting that of surrounding properties.
3. It would assist if developers were to provide accurate perspective drawings or artists’ impressions showing how new developments, extensions and conversions would appear in relation to the overall surroundings and adjacent properties.
4. Additions to existing houses, such as extensions, garages and conservatories, should be compatible with and respect the form, style and scale of the original building and those in close proximity (e.g. attempt to reflect similar roof pitch where similar additions have been made on similar properties)
5. It is desirable that roof extensions should be in the same material as the existing roof particularly when the roof is thatched. Flat roof extensions should be avoided as they are not typical of the housing stock within the parish.
6. Detailing should be simple and reflect local building traditions.
   Photograph 17: New build on Furzedown Lane
   Design recommendations A, F, G, K
   Materials recommendation N
7. Chimney stacks are traditionally in red brick, either external on the end of the house, or internal.
8. New porches should be simple tiled, slate or thatched open porches to suit the style of the house.
9. Designs reflecting simple local vernacular detailing are welcome but the combination of different styles within the same building should be avoided.
10. Security lighting should be low power, and the light restricted to the premises.
11. Garages should be positioned to the side or rear of buildings, and large expanses of hardstanding in striking colours/materials should be avoided.
12. Roof lights are to be avoided in existing buildings and should never be used in thatch where they are visible.

Materials

13. Extensions and alterations should complement the existing building using materials which harmonise with those originally used.
    Photograph 18: Brick and flint detail
    Materials recommendations M & N
14. Each area has its range of traditional materials; these are appropriate to new buildings and extensions.
15. Rendering should preferably be in white similar to the typical chalk/lime-washed finishes.
16. The Hampshire style of thatching has wrapover ridges flush with the rest of the roof. TVBC policy is to support the use of combed wheatstraw thatch used in the longstraw fashion traditional in Hampshire. The use of non-local materials such as Norfolk reed should be resisted.

1. Any future development should respect these highly valued village amenities. Every effort should be made where possible to minimise any adverse impact upon the character of the featured spaces, character buildings and amenities.
2. Wherever possible, we should look to support those amenities which provide employment where their development respects and maintains the character of the parish.