Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment
Balancing sustainable infrastructure design while protecting our natural environment.
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) is a tool used to identify and assess the significance of and the effects of change resulting from a proposed development on both the landscape as an environmental resource in its own right and on people’s views and visual amenity, and is used by Entrust Services for green infrastructure or renewable energy proposals to support our planning applications or environmental impact assessments.
Our Landscape & Visual Solutions
Entrust produces Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) for large-scale infrastructure proposals.
LVIAs are supported by visual solutions including photomontages, wireframes, and Zones of Theoretical Visibility (ZTV). Our sustainable landscaping ethos is to not only achieve an aesthetic that looks right, but the project must also commit to preserving the natural beauty and integrity of the environment. We provide a full suite of landscape architecture services for infrastructure schemes including landscaping designs and layouts.
The LVIA, a report submitted to the local planning authority, identifies and quantifies potential landscape and visual impacts arising from a proposed infrastructure scheme on the surrounding landscape. Our range of services includes a LVIA written statement, cumulative analysis and Landscape & Visual Appraisal (LVA). We have also developed a mini-LVIA in house which is widely used in the Telecoms Sector called an Assessment of Landscape & Visual Impacts (ALVI).
Offering a clear and realistic visual representation of your development in its proposed location, our photomontages and accompanying wireframes offer Planning Authorities and other Public Bodies an easy, accessible way to assess the predicted visual impacts. Our photomontages are derived from 3D models generated from 2D AutoCAD drawings depicting specified viewpoints that are often agreed with Planning and Landscape Officers. These are enhanced with wireframes, to demonstrate the full extent of a proposal’s visibility without built form and vegetation.
For smaller scale infrastructure proposals such as telecommunications masts, single wind turbines and small scale solar farms, our bespoke LVIA report called an ALVI is produced to support a planning application for these schemes. The ALVI describes the baseline condition of the site location, its landscape character area and type, condition and sensitivity, characteristics, its predicted impact on the surrounding landscape and its visual impact aided by ZTV, photomontages and wireframes to then produce a viewpoint analysis from a number of selected viewpoints in the surrounding area.
We use detailed ZTV (or ZVI) maps to illustrate the predicted visibility of your development proposal against a 3D terrain model. Particularly beneficial for infrastructure projects such as telecommunications masts, wind turbines, solar farms, and energy storage facilities. These maps are instrumental in planning applications, environmental assessments, and public consultations, providing clear insights into how a development will integrate with its environment. We produce bare earth topographical ZTV’s without built form and vegetation and ZTV’s considering both built form and vegetation as well as producing cumulative ZTV’s considering other similar schemes in an area.
Entrust Service’s Visual Appraisals are a review of land and its sensitivity to accommodate development in landscape and visual terms, often when our clients would like to understand more about the local landscape and the visibility of a particular site. The LVA can enable a sensitive approach to development, or form part of a submission at site representation stages to a Local Plan as it will identify the key landscape and visual opportunities and constraints of a site. The LVA is not an assessment of the effects of a development because it is addressing the principal of development rather than a fixed scheme.
Our drone surveys use high-resolution cameras and sensors, allowing us to capture detailed aerial imagery and geospatial data that is not otherwise visible. Whether it’s capturing topographic information, monitoring construction progress, or assessing the condition of assets, our drone surveys deliver fast, accurate data and valuable insights for 3D models, orthomosaic maps, digital elevation models (DEMs) and panoramic surveys (PANS) in the telecoms sector.
The LVIA, a report submitted to the local planning authority, identifies and quantifies potential landscape and visual impacts arising from a proposed infrastructure scheme on the surrounding landscape. Our range of services includes a LVIA written statement, cumulative analysis and Landscape & Visual Appraisal (LVA). We have also developed a mini-LVIA in house which is widely used in the Telecoms Sector called an Assessment of Landscape & Visual Impacts (ALVI).
For smaller scale infrastructure proposals such as telecommunications masts, single wind turbines and small scale solar farms, our bespoke LVIA report called an ALVI is produced to support a planning application for these schemes. The ALVI describes the baseline condition of the site location, its landscape character area and type, condition and sensitivity, characteristics, its predicted impact on the surrounding landscape and its visual impact aided by ZTV, photomontages and wireframes to then produce a viewpoint analysis from a number of selected viewpoints in the surrounding area.
Entrust Service’s Visual Appraisals are a review of land and its sensitivity to accommodate development in landscape and visual terms, often when our clients would like to understand more about the local landscape and the visibility of a particular site. The LVA can enable a sensitive approach to development, or form part of a submission at site representation stages to a Local Plan as it will identify the key landscape and visual opportunities and constraints of a site. The LVA is not an assessment of the effects of a development because it is addressing the principal of development rather than a fixed scheme.
Offering a clear and realistic visual representation of your development in its proposed location, our photomontages and accompanying wireframes offer Planning Authorities and other Public Bodies an easy, accessible way to assess the predicted visual impacts. Our photomontages are derived from 3D models generated from 2D AutoCAD drawings depicting specified viewpoints that are often agreed with Planning and Landscape Officers. These are enhanced with wireframes, to demonstrate the full extent of a proposal’s visibility without built form and vegetation.
We use detailed ZTV (or ZVI) maps to illustrate the predicted visibility of your development proposal against a 3D terrain model. Particularly beneficial for infrastructure projects such as telecommunications masts, wind turbines, solar farms, and energy storage facilities. These maps are instrumental in planning applications, environmental assessments, and public consultations, providing clear insights into how a development will integrate with its environment. We produce bare earth topographical ZTV’s without built form and vegetation and ZTV’s considering both built form and vegetation as well as producing cumulative ZTV’s considering other similar schemes in an area.
Our drone surveys use high-resolution cameras and sensors, allowing us to capture detailed aerial imagery and geospatial data that is not otherwise visible. Whether it’s capturing topographic information, monitoring construction progress, or assessing the condition of assets, our drone surveys deliver fast, accurate data and valuable insights for 3D models, orthomosaic maps, digital elevation models (DEMs) and panoramic surveys (PANS) in the telecoms sector.
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