Landscape Planning Assessments
Feeling stuck with landscape planning for your project? The rules, reports and requirements can feel like wading through mud.
Our landscape planning consultants provide the reports, technical advice and structured plans you need. Every service we deliver matches the stage your project is at and supports the wider goals you’re working toward.
Get in touch to discuss your Landscape Planning needs.
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
If planning language feels like reading a different textbook every day, an LVIA can sound more complicated than it is. Think of it as an organised way to test how your development might change the landscape or how people might see it.
You’ll need an LVIA for planning applications, Environmental Impact Assessment development, and sites with several groups of visual receptors. The assessment uses sensitivity, magnitude and significance criteria to show how important the likely impacts are.
The final report gives you a defined set of criteria and a clear picture of what the development means for the landscape. Our landscape planners stay with you through the process so nothing feels unclear.
More landscape planning support
Alongside these core reports, we also provide due diligence, opportunities and constraints reporting, Green Belt review (including grey belt), Gap analysis and expert witness services. We can also prepare strategic Landscape Plans to support your project.
Expert witness services
Our team has extensive experience in Public Inquiries, Planning Hearings, Written Reps, Examination in Public and rebuttal work and can provide robust expert witness services for your project.
Our experience at Appeals allows us to keep on top of the latest case law and developments within the industry, and to make sure the work we produce is of sufficient quality to stand up to scrutiny
More ways we boost your project with Landscape Planning
You’ll be working with Landscape Institute members at Tyler Grange who follow the professional Code of Conduct. That means you can expect high standards across every project.
Our landscape services include:
– Preliminary Opportunities and Constraints Advice (Feasibility/Due Diligence)
– Technical Notes
– Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
– Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment (TVIA)
– Landscape / Townscape and Visual ES Chapters
– Landscape Mitigation and Enhancement Plans
– Green Belt, Grey Belt and Gap review and analysis
– Critique of Policy (Technical information and other professional reports)
– Expert Witness and Rebuttals
Support that fits your project’s stage and strategy
Our experienced landscape planners provide clear and succinct support from the first site appraisal through to prepared material for your planning application. This includes tech notes for promotion, LVIA or ES chapters for planning submissions, and expert witness or rebuttal work if your project moves into post-application or refusal stages.
Here’s how that support lines up with each project stage:
– A tech note when you’re promoting land or exploring early potential
– An LVIA when you reach the planning application stage
– An Environmental Statement chapter if your project sits within EIA territory
– Expert witness or rebuttal work if an application is challenged or refused
Whatever stage you’re at, we make sure the product you receive is the right fit, the right level of detail and the right tool to support your project’s bigger picture.
Let’s build a great working relationship and address all of your landscape planning requirements.
Talk to our landscape team today
Want to discuss what report you need or get advice on your project?