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Our rural properties escape
urban living and are not one landform or land use.
They are a mixture of wide open land, farmland,
forests, national parks, mountains, river banks,
lakeshores, urban fringe and rural residential
areas.
The main feature of rural
land is that it is unplanned; non-uniform with a
natural look and it has a mixture of uses where no
one use is dominant.
Rural character is made up
of a number of components. The one thing they have
in common is a feeling of 'openness'. These
components include:
- open space with scenery
and landscape
- agriculture and grazing
animals
- houses, outbuildings
and sheds
- vegetation (trees,
shrubs and grasses) - both indigenous and exotic
- varying topography
including rolling hills and steep gorges
- rivers and
streams
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