Environment
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA)
The LCA is an assessment which identifies the features and attributes of a landscape which make it distinctive. The Dartmoor National Park LCA is used to help guide strategic planning and development management decisions to ensure the conservation and enhancement of Dartmoor's special landscape qualities. This LCA forms part of a wider programme of LCA work being undertaken on a national and Devon-wide scale.
> National Character Area Profile: 150 Dartmoor
> Devon Landscape Character Assessment
> Dartmoor Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) 2017
Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (LSA)
The Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (LSA) provides an assessment of landscape quality around ten key settlements within Dartmoor National Park and determines the landscape’s sensitivity to built development. This information can be used to inform the siting, design and scale of future development to ensure it respects and is well integrated with existing landscape character.
Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (LSA) 2017:
> Introduction and Methodology
> Landscape Assessment Profiles: Ashburton, Buckfastleigh and Chagford
> Landscape Assessment Profiles: Christow, Horrabridge, Yelverton and Mary Tavy
> Landscape Assessment Profiles: Moretonhampstead, Princetown and South Brent
Recreation Impacts
The SWEEP partnership at the University of Exeter report on the recreation impacts of new housing development on Dartmoor National Park. A summary and the full report are available on the SWEEP website, link below:
Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA)
An SFRA is used to inform decisions on where development should be located relative to flood risk and guides Local Plan policies. The Dartmoor National Park Authority SFRA was completed in 2010 and remains fundamentally relevant, an addendum report was completed in 2018 and updated further in 2019, which updates and refreshes the original assessment.
> Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (2010)
> Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Addendum (2019)
Devon County Council Climate Change Review
This report review's Devon County Council's Climate Change Strategy and provides Green House Gas (GHG) emission calculations for Dartmoor.
> A Review of Devon County Council's Climate Change Strategy
South Hams SAC Planning Guidance
Planning guidance helps planning authorities and applicants ensure they meet the statutory obligations associated with the greater horseshoe bat (GHB) conservation interest of the South Hams SAC.