The Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) Guidance, published by the Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, shows how to identify and express the different elements, such as woodlands, hedgerows, moors, mountains and farmland, building st...

Landscape Character Assessment Guidance


The Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) Guidance, published by the Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, shows how to identify and express the different elements, such as woodlands, hedgerows, moors, mountains and farmland, building styles, and historic artefacts, which give a place its unique character. This can help planners and policy makers set the right conditions for new development and changing systems of land management. 

Landscape Character Assessment can be used in many other situations, for example, in devising indicators to gauge countryside change, in helping local people prepare Village Design Statemtents, Parish Plans, and Market Towns Healthchecks and in devising environmental improvement strategies for places undergoing regeneration.


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Landscape Character Assessment Topic Papers
To further the application and use of Landscape Character Assessment in England and Scotland, a series of Topic Papers have been prepared to accompany the main LCA guidance. more