After our success at last year’s Landscape Institute awards during our 50th anniversary year, LUC has gone on to win three more awards at this year’s ceremony.

During the ceremony at The Brewery in London last week, our Plymouth Landscape, Seascape and Sensitivity Assessment was given Highly Commended status in the Strategic Landscape Planning category.

The study will help Plymouth City Council, adjacent local authorities and the nearby protected landscapes develop a stronger understanding of the character and sensitivity of the landscapes and seascapes within and surrounding the City. The results of our work are already being used to inform landscape policies and site allocations in the emerging Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan. The Seascape Character Assessment provides a framework to understand and account for the city’s strong maritime heritage and recognition as Britain’s ‘Ocean City’. It is one of the first examples in the UK of a fully integrated landscape, seascape and sensitivity assessment.

Our Landscape Policy and Research project, entitled ‘New Agricultural Landscapes: 44 years of change’, went on to win in the category.

This innovative programme has been monitoring landscape change since the early 1970s, established by the then Countryside Commission in response to growing concerns about the impacts of intensive farming on the environment. You can read our full case study for this project on our website.

Finally, for his incredible contribution to the Landscape Institute activities in Scotland, our Associate Landscape Planner Dan Walker has been awarded Volunteer of the Year.

Congratulations to all the other winners from the evening! A full list of the winners can be found here.