Landscape Liason & Advisory Service

Landscape Liason and Advisory Service

Where we can help

• Development Control
  • Pre-application discussionwith developers/agents/members of public
  • Advice at planning application stage
  • Discharge of planning conditions
  • Enforcement
  • Hedgerow regulations
  • Trees in conservation areas
  • Tree preservation orders
  • Protected species
  • Non-statutory protected sites
  • Sustainable development principles
  • Landscape design
  • Biodiversity and nature conservation
• Forward planning
  • Development briefs
  • 106 agreements and commuted sums - Legal agreements between a Planning Authority and a Developer
  • Environmental Impact assessments
  • Landscape Character Assessments
  • Strategic Environmental Assessments
  • Habitat Biodiversity Action Plans (HBA)
  • Designation of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC)
  • Designation of Local Nature Reserves
  • Policies - Unitary Development Plan (UDP)/ Local Development Framework (LDF)/ Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPGs) / Supplementary Planning Document (SPDs)
  • Strategies
  • Landscape policy
• Specialist Landscape Advice to thecoucil, the public/developers/community groups/statutory & non-statutory bodies, elected members and Parish councils

Anchor Point:CharAssessLandscape - character assessment

Summary

Landscape character assessment is a technique that has been developed to facilitate systematic analysis, description and classification of the landscape.

It involves identification of those features or combinations of elements that contribute to the character of the landscape, thereby enabling the special character and qualities of an area to be understood.

This information allows reasoned consideration of those issues affecting the landscape in order to develop appropriate recommendations for its future conservation and management.

Landscape character assessment can make a valuable contribution to the formation of planning policies, to the allocation of land for development, to development control activities, and to processes such as environmental assessment.

For more general information on landscape character assessments visit the Countryside Agency website

To view a copy of Solihull's landscape character assessment please contact Planning Services on 0121-704-6394 or email sustainabledevelopment@solihull.gov.uk

Contact Details

Tel: 0121 704 6391

Email: meastwood@solihull.gov.uk