Landscape

Landscape is about the relationship between people and place and is influenced by both natural (e.g. geology, climate, soils, flora and fauna) and cultural (e.g. historic and current land use, enclosure) elements.

In February 2006 the UK government signed the European Landscape Convention. This means that the government now officially recognises that landscape is an essential component of people's surroundings, an expression of the diversity of their shared cultural and natural heritage and a foundation of their identity. This recognition now requires integration of landscape into regional, planning, environmental, agricultural, social and economic policies and a commitment to the establishment of policies aimed at the protection, management and planning of landscapes.

In 1996, the former Countryside Commission and English Nature with support from English Heritage produced "The Character of England" Map, which covered the whole country. This was accompanied by descriptions of 159 landscape character areas, together with identification of the influences and main pressures for change upon those areas. Salford was identified as being covered by 4 national landscape character areas (i.e. Manchester Pennine Fringe, Manchester Conurbation, Mersey Valley and Lancashire Coal Measures).

More information on the national landscape character areas can be found on the Natural England website.

Salford's Landscape Character Assessment supplements the Design SPD. Both documents were the subject of public consultation between Friday, 14 September 2007 and Thursday 25 October 2007.

Who to contact

Name

Planning and Transport Futures

Address

Sustainable Regeneration
Salford City Council
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5BY
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Telephone

0161 793 3782

Email

plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 12 September 2011