LANDMAP - the Welsh landscape baseline

It’s a tool to help sustainable decision-making and natural resource planning at a range of levels from local to national whilst ensuring transparency in decision-making.

What’s included in LANDMAP?

Five, nationally consistent, quality assured spatial datasets:

• Geological Landscape
• Landscape Habitats
• Visual and Sensory
• Historic Landscape
• Cultural Landscape

LANDMAP:

• Maps and classifies landscapes from the unique perspective of each dataset
• Describes their key characteristics, qualities and components
• Evaluates their importance from a national to local scale
• Recommends locally appropriate management guidelines
• Identifies significant landscape change through monitoring of the baseline resource

How to access LANDMAP

Use the interactive maps to view maps and surveys.

• You can find LANDMAP on our map of environmental information

You can also download LANDMAP maps and surveys to use in a GIS environment from:

• DataMapsWales 

Guidance on using LANDMAP

LANDMAP is used to inform planning, policy, strategies, evidence and advice, such as:

• development control, forward planning and local development plans
• supplementary planning guidance, design guidance and sensitivity studies
• landscape evidence at public inquiries
• Environmental Impact Assessment and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments
• Special Landscape Area designations
• Natural Resource Planning and Cultural Services
• National Park and AONB statutory management plans, special qualities and ‘State of’ reports
• landscape monitoring
• Local Landscape Character Areas and National Landscape Character Areas
• Local Seascape Character Areas and National Marine Character Areas

How to carry out a Landscape Sensitivity Assessment

Read guidance on carrying out a Landscape Sensitivity Assessment

Contact

Contact us if you have any further queries or issues using LANDMAP.