LANDMAP - the Welsh landscape baseline
It’s a tool to help sustainable decision-making and natural resource planning at a range of levels from local to national whilst ensuring transparency in decision-making.
What’s included in LANDMAP?
Five, nationally consistent, quality assured spatial datasets:
- Geological Landscape
- Landscape Habitats
- Visual and Sensory
- Historic Landscape
- Cultural Landscape
LANDMAP:
- Maps and classifies landscapes from the unique perspective of each dataset
- Describes their key characteristics, qualities and components
- Evaluates their importance from a national to local scale
- Recommends locally appropriate management guidelines
- Identifies significant landscape change through monitoring of the baseline resource
How to access LANDMAP
Use the interactive maps to view maps and surveys.
You can also download LANDMAP maps and surveys to use in a GIS environment from:
Guidance on using LANDMAP
LANDMAP is used to inform planning, policy, strategies, evidence and advice, such as:
- development control, forward planning and local development plans
- supplementary planning guidance, design guidance and sensitivity studies
- landscape evidence at public inquiries
- Environmental Impact Assessment and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments
- Special Landscape Area designations
- Natural Resource Planning and Cultural Services
- National Park and AONB statutory management plans, special qualities and ‘State of’ reports
- landscape monitoring
- Local Landscape Character Areas and National Landscape Character Areas
- Local Seascape Character Areas and National Marine Character Areas
How to carry out a Landscape Sensitivity Assessment
Read guidance on carrying out a Landscape Sensitivity Assessment
Contact
Contact us if you have any further queries or issues using LANDMAP.
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