The documents in this Landscape Character
Assessment were produced to help inform planning
decisions. However, they also contain a wealth of natural and
historic information (written and visual) which local people,
natural history societies and potential visitors may all find
interesting.
Harrogate District's landscape is rich and
varied, encompassing the apparent wilderness of the moors in
Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and intensively
cultivated farmland, the natural beauty of wood and water and
carefully tended gardens and parks, town and country, small-scale
details and large-scale planning, new schemes and the legacy of the
past.
The Planning Division's Landscape
Architect gives advice on landscape matters, contributes to
Development Briefs & Design Guidance, formulating Landscape
Policy and giving advice in Project design.
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA)
The District covers 1,308 sqkm and is a large
rural area containing the towns of Harrogate Knaresborough,
Boroughbridge, Masham, Pateley Bridge and the cathedral City of
Ripon. The pressures of development can pose a threat to the
range of rural and urban landscape character types in the
District.
This thorough Landscape Character Assessment,
approved as Supplementary Planning Guidance in February 2004,
partitions the District into over 100 separate areas and will help
guide development and inform design decisions.
Read the LCA Introduction (622Kb)
which gives overall information on the Assessment
Read the LCA Appendices (182Kb)
with ancillary information.
To read about individual Landscape Character Areas,
first select a link to a quadrant of this map to zoom in
closer.