Landscape Character Supplementary Planning Document ...

City of Bradford Metropolitan District CouncilLocal Development Framework For Bradford9.4 MIXED UPLAND PASTURESummary9.4.1 An open landscape with rectangular pasture fields enclosed by drystone walls, andhaving some trees. Contains a wide variety of other landscape elements, giving thelandscape a much more mixed character than the upland pasture, with more humaninfluences.Distribution9.4.2 This is the predominant landscape type on the uplands south of Airedale and west ofBradford.Landscape Elements9.4.3 Mixed Upland Pasture essentially has the same structure as Upland Pasture, withroughly the same ratios of drystone walls, fields, and farmsteads. However, mixedupland pasture contains various other elements resulting from the more diverse range ofhuman activities taking place here. Though the landscape, by land area at least, is stilldominated by upland pasture for sheep grazing, it is not exclusively dedicated to farming.This means the pattern of drystone wall field boundaries is far less dominant, and farless striking, than exists in the upland pasture.There is a wider range of buildings present including stone terraces, detached houses,public houses, churches, hamlets, and small villages. There are roads, lanes, trafficsigns, cars, telegraphs poles, and pylons. Perhaps most noticeable there are trees inthe mixed upland pasture. The tree cover is not as dominant as in the Enclosed Pasture,Landscape Character Supplementary Planning DocumentOctober 2008 Page 48