1. The Green and the adjacent Strouds’ Field Nature Reserve must 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. Future development should wherever possible avoid disruption to the skylines.
   
4. Any new building in the floodplain of the Pillhill Brook should be avoided.
   
5. The footpath network must be maintained and verges kept to a reasonable height.
   
6. Hedgerows should be maintained and enhanced.
   
7. 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.
   
8. The Pillhill Brook riverbanks should be appropriately managed to provide an environment conducive to wildlife. Attempts to "suburbanize" the riverbanks should be avoided.
   
9. 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 low-rise 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 settlements identified – 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.
   
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 wherever possible be retained.
   
6. Television aerials and satellite dishes should be sited unobtrusively.
   
7. New boundaries should be in keeping with the character of those already found in close proximity. 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 that car parking dominating the appearance of such a development and/or its use by other users notably pedestrians and cyclists.

Design

1. Contemporary architect-designed 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 parishioners if developers were to provide 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 architectural style 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. Flat roof extensions should be avoided as they are not typical of the housing stock within the parish.
   
6. Inappropriate detailing not found traditionally in the village should be avoided.
   
7. Chimneys 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. Vernacular styles should not be combined in one building.
   
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.

Materials

12. Extensions and alterations should complement the existing building using materials which harmonise with those originally used.
    
13. Each area has its range of listed traditional materials; these are appropriate to new buildings and extensions.
    
14. Rendering should preferably be in white to match traditional chalk/lime-washed finishes.
    
15. The Hampshire style of thatching has integrated ridges flush with the rest of the roof. TVBC policy is to support combed wheat-straw thatch used in the long-straw fashion traditional in Hampshire. Norfolk reed should not normally be used.

Windows

16. Eyebrow rooflines frame windows in thatched properties.
    
17. Roof-lights are to be avoided in existing buildings and should never be used in thatch where they are visible.
    
18. Dormers are not traditional in older houses, and where they do occur they are small. They should be used only to provide light, not living accommodation.

1. Increased traffic from the A303 resulting from the closure of the gap and increasing industrial developments should be discouraged from using the narrow village roads and lanes.
   
2. Urgent consideration should be given to securing long term funding for a bridge crossing at the Sarson Lane/A303 junction.
   
3. Passing places should be provided, and maintained, on single lane roads.
   
4. Route sharing and delivery co-ordination by regular HGV traffic should be encouraged.

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.