East Dorset Landscape Character Assessment - Dorsetforyou.com

The following three character areas are wholly or partly within the Districtand provide a context in which to examine landscape character at a morelocal level:© Crown Copyright. All rightsreserved.100024319.2007Dorset Landscape Assessment 1993 (DCC and CountrysideCommission) Identified six landscape zones and twenty two characterareas within the County.The Cranborne Chase and West Wilshire Downs Landscape 1995(Countryside Commission). A landscape assessment of the Area ofOutstanding Natural Beauty prepared by Land Use Consultants.A Handbook of Landscape Management Guidance for Dorset1997, produced by Dorset County Council as a guide to themanagement of the landscape characteristics identified by the 1993assessment.Cranborne Chase Landscape Assessment, undertaken by EastDorset District Council for that part of east Dorset lying within the AONBdesignation and describing seven landscape character zones with theircomponent areas. This document was adopted as SPG to the EastDorset Local Plan in 1997.Areas of Great Landscape Value undertaken by East Dorset DistrictCouncil to describe four areas of distinct landscape quality beyond theareas designated as AONB. This document was adopted as SPG to theEast Dorset Local Plan in 1997.Countryside Design Summary. Prepared by East Dorset DistrictCouncil, the Countryside Design Summary comprises a descriptiveanalysis of the landscape and the setting of buildings and villages withinit; the form of settlements and their relationship with the surroundinglandscape; the form, design and materials of traditional buildings anddivided the District into four 'landscape zones' relating to the area's maingeophysical formations The document was approved as SupplementaryPlanning Guidance to the Local Plan in August 1999.The Cranborne Chase and West Wilshire Downs AONB -Integrated Landscape Character Assessment 2003 (CountrysideCommission). A further, more detailed landscape assessment of theEast Dorset District Council District Landscape Character Assessment 20085