Policy PD-P2

Development management decisions should specifically consider the cumulative effects of individual developments on the designated landscape. The addition of further individual developments and particularly replacement and redevelopment of existing dwellings and buildings and the extension of settlements will be supported where these are landscape led and do not exceed the sensitivity and capacity of their designated landscape setting and where they do not give rise to cumulative effects particularly through the inclusion of uncharacteristic contemporary elements, domestic paraphernalia and light spill. The unique historic character of many of the settlements and clusters of dwellings in the designated landscape reflect both their vernacular form and buildings and also their relationship to their landscape setting. The loss of either characteristic will be disproportionately harmful.