Criteria for designation of Local Green Space are quite restrictive and therefore policy-makers should consider other options for protecting existing open space just outside the development framework valued by the community. Existing Local Green Spaces, Protected Village Amenity Areas and Important Countryside Frontages should be retained. Two sections of The Causeway, Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth are an important connection between the street scene and the East Anglian Chalk landscape and should be considered for ICF designation. They have views south over open agricultural countryside towards the higher ground of Therfield Heath SSSI. The land to the south forms a break between the Kneesworth development framework and the Royston settlement boundary in the proposed North Herts DC 2011-2031 Local Plan.