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Landscape Character Assessment Guidance for England and Scotland
Part 1: A Practical guide to Landscape Character Assessment
Chapter 1: Introduction
(652kb pdf)This guidance provides update advice on Landscape Character Assessment, an important tool for all those involved in influencing landscape.
Chapter 2: Principles and Process (324kb pdf)
This chapter sets out some of the key principles which underpin Landscape Character Assessment
Chapter 3: Defining the Scope (step 1) (42kb pdf)
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. The scope of an assessment must be defined at the outset to ensure that the work is affective
Chapter 4: Desk Study (step 2) (641kb pdf)
Map analysis and preparation to map overlays.
Chapter 5: Field Study Survey (step 3) (721kb pdf)
Field survey provides the important ground level view that shows how the landscape is seen by people
Chapter 6: Classification and description (981kb pdf)
This chapter describes the last step in the characterisation process, namely classifying and describing landscape character
Chapter 7: Making Judgements based on landscape character
(230kb pdf)The use of Landscape Character Assessment in making judgements is a fast moving scene amongst practioners
Part 2: Landscape Character Assessment in Practice
Chapter 8: Applications in Planning (523kb pdf)
The classification and description of landscape character types should be a factual and objective process
Chapter 9: Applications in landscape conservation and management
(129kb pdf)Landscape Character Assessment can be used to inform policies for landscape conservation and management
References (37kb pdf)
References for Landscape Character Assessment Guidance for England and Scotland
Throughout the documents there are references to Topic Papers*, which can be downloaded by clicking on the links on the right of the page.
* The exception is Topic Paper 8, which will no longer be published.
