Strategically Assessing the Historic Landscape’s Sensitivity and Capacity in Relation to Change: A Discussion Document to Inform Preparation of Advice
Author(s): Pete Herring
Historic England (HE) commissioned this review of approaches to modelling the sensitivity to or capacity for change of the historic landscape and seascape. The project aims to help HE develop advice for a reasonable and deliverable scenario-led approach that would support the historic environment sector when becoming more involved with government, agencies, developers, landscape and seascape managers, planners and wider society when negotiating proposed or expected change, including very early in the consideration of change. Such involvement may be upstream from master planning and design within formal development planning, or it may be a means of getting to grips with strategic opportunities and threats for historic landscape. It may include scoping locations and forms of major industry, infrastructure (transport, power generation and transmission) and house-building initiatives, developing responses to the predictable effects of climate change, proactively designing forms of environmental growth like woodland creation and biodiversity enrichment, and guiding initiatives to support sustainable land use and sea use, including agriculture and fishing. To do that, it would consider the patterns, fabric and character of extensive areas, such as hinterlands of cities or whole counties or groups of counties, or large areas of the sea.
- Report Number:
- 91/2022
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 195
- Keywords:
- Historic Seascape Characterisation Historic Landscape Characterisation Significance
