Cornwall Council’s work in producing guidance for local communities to help them assess landscape when developing their neighbourhoods has been highly commended in the prestigious Landscape Institute Awards.

The Public Space Team of Cornwall Council in partnership with Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Unit were highly commended for their work, ‘Assessing a Cornish Sense of Place – Local Landscape Character Assessment’ - which has produced guidance to help communities assess their landscape with a view to preserving Cornwall’s character and natural heritage when developing their Neighbourhood Development Plan.

Cornwall Council cabinet member for planning Edwina Hannaford said: ’Retaining a landscape architect within the natural environment team demonstrates Cornwall Council’s commitment to protecting our precious environment which is so important to our social well-being, bio-diversity and our economy.

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’We trade on our good looks so any way we can help communities better understand the value of the landscape will help them create policies through their neighbourhood plans, to protect and enhance the landscape from inappropriate development and raise the quality of design.’