Indicator G1 is a measure of progress towards meeting the overall aim of ‘enhancing beauty’ as part of Goal 10 in the Environmental Improvement Plan. The measure takes into account a range of natural, cultural and perceptual factors that provide a rounded insight into where and how landscape character is changing. It also monitors the extent to which positive changes are contributing to objectives that lead to a range of landscape benefits including enhanced beauty. Indicator G1 currently includes reporting for the period between 2015-2025.
EIF G1 indicator component G1a measures the extent to which landscape change is achieving the landscape outcomes described in the NCA Statements of Environmental Opportunity (SEOs). For this purpose. SEOs across all NCAs are distilled into 34 measurable Super Landscape Objectives (SLOs). This Atlas provides access to the assessment of SLOs based on changes between 2015 – 2023 (or the closest approximations to those dates with the data available).
The Atlas provides online access to the assessment results from the research: Developing Indicators and Thresholds for Monitoring the Landscape Impacts of Environmental Stewardship at the National Character Area Scale Report of Findings (LM0429); Monitoring the Impact of Stewardship on Landscape Character, Quality and Resilience (LM0483); and Monitoring the impact of agri-environment schemes on landscape character, quality and resilience (LM04150). This evidence base supports EIF G1 indicator component G1b: The influence of agri-environment schemes in conserving and enhancing landscape character in England.
Many different components contribute to visual and experiential landscape character. Landscape has a perceptual dimension and it is generally known what components and changes have a more positive or negative influence on landscape character and how it is experienced. This new work has mapped spatial changes, that are considered to have an influence on the visual and experiential aspects of landscape across categories of positive visual, negative visual, cultural, experiential and access. The change mapping available here is for the period 2015-2025, using datasets that were available for 21 sub-indicators.