Landscape & Visual Impact
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments is a common component of Environmental Impact Assessment projects and is a key tool in the UK planning process. At Mayer Brown we manage and co-ordinate Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments which assist in identifying the potential landscape and visual impacts of a proposal in the early stages of its design. In so doing we help our clients to find solutions that minimise these impacts and recommend enhancements that will maximise the benefits.
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments can also be beneficial for other development proposals, where an EIA is not formally required, to help reduce its landscape and visual impacts. The Landscape and
Visual Impacts Assessments we undertake may include some or all of the following components:
Baseline assessments to review the existing landscape character and views
- Zone of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV) mapping
- Identification of potential sensitive landscape and visual receptors and impacts
- Assessment of magnitude, sensitivity of landscape and visual receptors
- Assessment of magnitude of landscape and visual changes
- Assessment of significance of landscape and visual impacts
- Advising how these impacts can be reduced and mitigated
- Identify opportunities for landscape enhancement
- Landscape design incorporating mitigation and enhancements
- Photomontages and 3D visualisations