Landscape Strategy & Guidelines

The Cotswold Landscape Character Assessment

The Cotswold Landscape Character Assessment has identified 19 different landscape character types in the Cotswolds AONB.

Using this assessment, Landscape Strategies and Guidelines have been produced for each of the 19 landscape character types. This information is used by local planners and decision makers to make informed decisions about the suitability of proposed development or change within the Cotswold landscape.

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Introduction and Use

Landscape Character Type Map

• • LCT 1: Escarpment Outliers
  • LCT 2: Escarpment
  • LCT 3: Rolling Hills and Valleys
  • LCT 4: Enclosed Limestone Valley
  • LCT 5: Settled Valleys
  • LCT 6: Ironstone Hills and Valleys
  • LCT 7: High Wold
  • LCT 8: High Wold Valley
  • LCT 9: High Wold Dip Slope
  • LCT 10: High Wold Dip Slope Valley
  • LCT 11: Dip Slope Lowland
  • LCT 12: Dip Slope Lowland Valley
  • LCT 13: Low Limestone Plateau
  • LCT 14: Cornbrash Pastoral Lowlands
  • LCT 15: Farmed Slopes
  • LCT 16: Broad Floodplain Valley
  • LCT 17: Pastoral Lowland Vale
  • LCT 18: Settled Unwooded Vale
  • LCT 19: Unwooded Vale