Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

The landscape and visual aspects of a proposed development are an essential element of most planning applications, even those that do not require a formal Environmental Impact Assessment.

LiZLaKe has developed a framework for undertaking landscape and visual impact assessments that evaluates the contribution of proposals to the locality. We assess the capacity of a particular site or landscape to absorb the proposals, and outline the significance of the changes that will occur.

Our widely-respected methodology has been constructed to take account of all recent directives, and has formed the basis of training workshops given to planners and landscape architects on landscape character and its role in the planning system. Where this methodology has been used as the basis of our evidence at public inquiry, it has proved to be robust on cross examination.