Sensitive positioning and visual linkage with existing buildings

To help minimise impact on the character and appearance of the landscape such dwellings should be positioned sensitively with an established group of buildings on the farm, either to form an integral part of that particular building group, or when viewed from surrounding vantage points, it reads as being visually interlinked with those buildings, with little appreciation of any physical separation that may exist between them. If however, the existing building group is well landscaped, or where a site adjacent to the building group is well landscaped planning permission can be granted for a new dwelling even though the degree of visual linkage between the two is either very limited, or virtually non-existent due to the amount of screening vegetation. It will not be acceptable to position a new dwelling with buildings which are on a neighbouring farm holding.