Lyndis Cole
BSc MSc

Lyndis Cole is a Principal of LUC with over 28 years experience in environmental planning and management.

Lyndis brings specific skills in rural issues and integrated rural development. She is Principal-in-charge of the majority of LUC’s work relating to integrated rural development and has co-ordinated all LUC’s work on the Countryside Agency’s Land Management Initiatives (LMIs), on local products, and on the planning system and farm diversification. She was responsible for reviewing the ESA monitoring programme on behalf of the National Audit Office and led the review of consultations that informed the separate Forestry Strategies for England and Wales.

She has contributed to the current guidance on Landscape Character Assessment for the Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage and is the leader within LUC on the development of the Environmental Capital (Quality of Life Capital) approach being promoted by the Countryside Agency, English Nature, English Heritage and the Environment Agency.

She has authored a wide range of guidance documents, including Conservation Issues in Local Plans (CCP 485), Woodland Creation: Needs and Opportunities in the English Countryside. Responses to a Discussion Paper (CCP 523); the Amenity Reclamation of Mineral Workings; the Reclamation of Damaged Land for Nature Conservation; and Planning Controls over Agricultural and Forestry Developments and Rural Building Conversions – the latter all published by HMSO.