Landscape Character Assessment Supplementary Planning Document

The Landscape Character SPD provides detailed guidance on key character areas and their characteristics, and guidance for managing development and change within them. The SPD supports the saved policies NE3 and NE3A in the adopted Replacement UDP (2005).

The SPD consists of 11 documents; the first document is an introduction and outlines the background and methodology, with the remaining 10 documents set out in Volumes 1 to 10 outlining each of the Landscape Character Areas. Each Landscape Character Area volume provides a description of the area, setting out important features, analysis of the areas sensitivity to change, and detractors within the area. It then sets out landscape strategies for the fabric of the landscape and for development taking place within it. An additional level of detail is provided within each character area being broken down further into a number of local landscape types; these are described with an analysis of their strength of character and condition together with policy guidelines for the conservation or improvement of the local landscape type.

An interactive map shows the district’s different landscape character areas and types as well as the sensitivity of the different landscapes. This map can be used together with the SPD to understand whether new development sites can be accommodated in the landscape.

The City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council adopted the Landscape Character SPD on 1 October 2008.