Landscape Character Supplementary Planning Document ...

City of Bradford Metropolitan District CouncilLocal Development Framework For Bradford9.3 UPLAND PASTURESummary9.3.1 A smooth, open treeless, landscape, dominated by bold linear patters of drystone walls.Distribution9.3.2 Upland pasture occurs on flat to gently rolling, high ground; either just below thegritstone moorland as in Airedale and the Worth and North Beck Valley, or covering therolling tops of ridges of land between the valleys, for example Steeton Moor, andAddingham Moor.Landscape Elements9.3.3 Upland pasture has a very simple, pure, farmed character, with very few other elementsadding to the fields, walls, farmsteads, and tracks. Some farmsteads have tree groupsassociated with them, and there can be a few isolated trees present. Quarries, craggyoutcrops, wooded cloughs, and lanes occasionally occur, but in general the landscapeelements are very consistent, and very limited.There are no other buildings apart from those necessary to support the farming of theland; and the land area is almost exclusively given over to farming. In this sense, thereis a clear, quite intense, relationship between man and the landscape. It is a relationshipthat has been maintained over many centuries, and is evidently a balanced and veryLandscape Character Supplementary Planning DocumentOctober 2008 Page 46