Strategic Landscape Sensitivity

Assessing Landscape Sensitivity at a Strategic Level: A Description of the Methodology (1.12MB)
Published 2006, a description of the updated methodology used to inform the location of a Strategic Development Area in South Hampshire. This work was given a commendation in the Strategic Landscape Planning category of the 2007 Landscape Institute Awards.
Paper outlining the working methodology for Strategic Landscape Sensitivity (1 MB)
Summary of the discussion from a peer group review workshop held to discuss the working methodology for Strategic Landscape Sensitivity (0.67 MB)
Hampshire County Council’s draft Landscape Sensitivity Aims and Objectives (80 kB)
Hampshire County Council’s draft Sensitivity Indicators Terminology (80 kB)
CCN News article about Hampshire’s development of a methodology for Strategic Landscape Sensitivity Assessment, authored by Mark Wilson (482 kB)

Background to the Strategic Landscape Sensitivity methodology.

In 2004 Hampshire County Council made a proposal to develop and test a methodology for Strategic Landscape Sensitivity Assessment. Writing in CCN News (Issue 15, Summer 2004), Mark Wilson of Hampshire County Council stated that:

“The development of regional spatial strategies, sub regional studies and local development frameworks is providing a great opportunity for us to promote the use of Landscape Character Assessment in planning policy work. We need an appreciation of all our landscape, not just the designated bits. Landscape Character is the potential tool to analyse inherent attributes and thereby gauge landscape sensitivity”

For more information about Strategic Landscape Sensitivity Assessment, please contact Mark Wilson. mark.wilson [at] hants [dot] gov [dot] uk