Landscape & Visual impact Assessment (LVIA)
LVIAs are used to assess the visual impact of development and associated activities on the natural or built environment, in particular the likely effects of planned structures on a landscape and its associated amenity value.
What Happens Next?
LVIA may be used as part of an Environmental Impact Assessment to assess the potential of a development proposal to harm an aspect of landscape or a view.
The Assessment considers the sensitivity to change of specific ‘landscape receptors’ and ‘visual receptors’ to determine whether a proposal affects the physical environment or the people who experience it, as well as the significance of the effect and its magnitude.
A level of harm assessed in magnitude terms will then be determined taking into account, according to National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) criteria, the size or scale of the changes, the geographical extent of the area influenced and duration/reversibility of impact.
