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Landscape Character Assessment Guidance

Hill with church
The Landscape Character Assessment Guidance, published by Natural England 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.

"Landscape Character Assessment is the tool that is used to help us to understand, and articulate, the character of the landscape.  It helps us identify the features that give a locality its 'sense of place' and pinpoints what makes it different from neighbouring areas."
(Landscape Character Assessment: Guidance for England and Scotland, The Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, 2002)

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 Statements, Parish Plans and Market Towns Healthchecks and in devising environmental improvement strategies for places undergoing regeneration.

The Landscape Character Assessment Guidance Publication and accompanying Topic Papers are available to download from the boxes on the right hand side of this page.

Datasets can be obtained from the MAGIC (Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside) website.

For further information please contact:
Christine Tudor 01242 533 378
Christine.Tudor@naturalengland.org.uk