The scope of the study is to establish the baseline conditions at the site and consider proposed facilities additions to the camp-site along with continuing approved seasonal camping use and proposed additional camping use. The proposed landscape strategy supports the objectives of the World Heritage Site Management Plan by conserving the site's experiential qualities—landscape character, natural beauty, biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Visual impact has been carefully assessed, including from viewpoints along the Southwest Coast Path and Portland Bill, ensuring the development integrates sensitively with its surroundings.
Landscape mitigation includes the strategy for local stone wall restoration and management in conjunction with a long term ecological management plan. There is a careful balance to be had between restoring local walls and maintaining field edges as an existing resource for wildlife, where edges have succumbed to successional scrub cover. Buffer zones are created around field edges to protect biodiversity from disturbance and safeguard the integrity of existing and restored walls. Vehicular restrictions and no camping zones are recommended to protect grassland habitats and conserve the character of close range views.