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Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Guidance on how the Environment Agency should handle landscape and environmental design issues in the development of capital projects.
How to carry out and use landscape and seascape character assessments.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
How to create a landscape sensitivity assessment to inform decisions on the planning and management of land use change which influence spatial planning.
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Masterplanning is integral to creating well-planned and designed garden communities.
The concept of ecosystem services shifts the human-nature relationship from a conservation-oriented into a utility-oriented one
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
Understand the European Landscape Convention's principles to integrate them at all levels of decision-making when planning and creating new landscapes.
Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
Review of evidence on assessing and valuing landscape quality and its aesthetic dimensions.
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