ESPH SB Landscape Evidence Base Studies (ESPH444 LM)

Wealden District Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified landscape consultancy to undertake a number of landscape evidence base studies to inform the new Local Plan, including to assist in decisions on the allocation of specific areas and/or sites for development. This assessment work shall also inform the Sustainability Appraisal of the Local Plan; Development Management decisions on planning applications and assist in the production of Neighbourhood Plans. The work to be undertaken is in the form of 5 inter-related projects:• 1: An up-to-date Landscape Character Assessment; • 2: A Landscape Sensitivity Assessment for Residential and Employment Development;• 3: A Landscape and Visual Assessment of Areas for new settlements and large urban extensions;• 4: A Landscape Sensitivity Assessment for Wind Turbine and Solar PV Development.• 5: A Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment of proposed allocation sites within the High Weald AONB.