Landscape character assessment is a technique that has been developed to facilitate systematic analysis, description and classification of the landscape.
It involves identification of those features or combinations of elements that contribute to the character of the landscape, thereby enabling the special character and qualities of an area to be understood. This information allows reasoned consideration of those issues affecting the landscape in order to develop appropriate recommendations for its future conservation and management
The assessment can make a valuable contribution to the formation of planning policies, to the allocation of land for development, to development control activities, and to processes such as environmental assessment.
At ldc we are able to provide fully detailed landscape character assessments as part of our complete planning service in order to ensure that any planning submission is fully supported with accurate and substantiated evidence.