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The 2019 Landscape Character Assessment

The Landscape of East Devon

East Devon is blessed with a landscape of exceptional quality.  Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) cover around two thirds of the District and much of the coastline forms part of a World Heritage site.

Landscape Character Assessment 2019

East Devon and Blackdown Hills Landscape Character Assessment

A Landscape Character Assessment is a tool to help understand what the landscape is like today, how it came to be like that, and how it may change in the future.  East Devon District Council, working with Devon County Council, the Blackdown Hills AONB partnership and the East Devon AONB partnership commissioned Fiona Fyfe Associates to produce a new Landscape Character Assessment in 2018.

East Devon and the Blackdown Hills contain a rich diversity of landscapes within which people live, work and enjoy free time.  The Landscape Character Assessment promotes the conservation and enhancement of these landscapes and their distinctive qualities, whilst accommodating people's needs and responding to changes and pressures.

It seeks to provide an easy to understand and comprehensive framework which will help to shape landscape-based projects across the area.  It is not intended to inhibit innovative planning or design, but should aid understanding of how and where positive change could take place without losing distinctive landscape character.

The final version of the Landscape Character Assessment can be viewed here.