HDA has extensive experience of producing both Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) as part of Environmental Statements, and smaller Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVA) that can form stand-alone documents in support of a planning application.
Our assessment work and methodology is compliant with industry best practice (Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, third edition) and has been tested successfully at public enquiry.
We tailor the complexity of the report to the site and development proposals, and provide advice on landscape and visual issues throughout the lifetime of a project.
project examples
GROVE
The Monks Farm site is now part of a Strategic Housing Site within the Council’s Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement. HDA provided landscape, ecology and arboricultural support both for the allocation submission and for the outline planning application that followed. Our combined influence led to the development of a Green Infrastructure Strategy for the …
RYE GARDEN VILLAGE
In June 2016, HDA was commissioned to consider the landscape within a large site, with a view to promoting all or part of the site as a location for a new settlement. HDA prepared a Preliminary Landscape and Visual Assessment for the site (known then as Rye Common), to help inform the location and extent …
CRANBROOK MASTERPLAN
HDA was employed by Savills to provide landscape advice for its masterplan of an NHS Healthy New Town at Cranbrook in East Devon. HDA prepared an Landscape and Visual Assessment (LVA) to test the masterplan and Green Infrastructure, and a Green Infrastructure and SANG strategy for the site. East Devon District Council sought to significantly …
WHITWELL QUARRY
HDA’s involvement in the landscape and visual assessment of the development of this large quarry (204 hectares) in Derbyshire has been ongoing since the 1990s. The high purity dolomitic limestone extracted at the quarry (operated by Tarmac) is burnt in the kilns of the adjoined lime processing plant (operated by Lhoist) for use in refractory …
OFFENHAM ROAD
On behalf of Miller Homes, HDA prepared a site appraisal and capacity study to support the site’s allocation through the Local Plan process, followed by illustrative masterplan proposals, parameters plans and a Design and Access Statement for outline planning. The masterplan accommodates 500 new homes, a primary school and public open space near Evesham in …
WENHASTON
HDA prepared a Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) for a proposed wind turbine near the village of Wenhaston in Suffolk, which contains a number of listed buildings. Government guidance sets out that when determining planning applications for renewable energy projects, the impacts of the proposed development on the historic environment should be considered. As …