Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments

We undertake Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and Townscape and Visual Impact Assessments (TVIA), helping clients understand landscape and visual sensitivities, identify opportunities and constraints, and shape development proposals that respond positively to their surroundings. Working collaboratively with design teams from an early stage, we help deliver schemes that are both environmentally responsive and planning-ready.

Our team has extensive experience delivering LVIAs and TVIAs in accordance with the latest guidance published by the Landscape Institute and ISEP. We have assessed projects across a wide variety of urban, rural and coastal environments, including nationally designated landscapes and other environmentally sensitive locations.

Expertise you can rely on

For more than 40 years, Nicholas Pearson Associates has provided trusted landscape planning advice across a diverse range of projects and sectors.

As a Landscape Institute Registered Practice, our Chartered Landscape Architects deliver robust, proportionate assessments tailored to each project’s scale, complexity and planning requirements.
The quality of our Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment work, which also includes townscapes, seascapes and strategic landscape assessment, is based on our in-depth experience. Our ability to work proportionately and to tailor our outputs to the needs of each project is appreciated by our clients.

Working together to deliver success

We take a collaborative approach to working on projects at all stages of the planning and design process, at all scales and across a broad range of sectors.

We believe the best outcomes are achieved through collaboration. By working closely with architects, planners, engineers and environmental specialists, we help integrate landscape-led solutions into the design process from the earliest stages, reducing risk and improving planning outcomes.

We are as committed to working for private clients on individual properties as we are to working for a development consortium on a major urban extension scheme. We will give you our complete focus and support, providing attention to detail and an understanding of your commercial needs.

We are committed to delivering high-quality, proportionate outputs for all our clients in the form of reports, drawings, and other graphics.

We use advanced spatial analysis and visualisation techniques to provide robust landscape and visual assessments. Our in-house expertise in GIS, CAD, verified photomontages and 3D visualisation enables us to clearly communicate landscape and visual effects to clients, planning authorities and stakeholders. These tools help support robust assessment, inform design development and facilitate informed decision-making.

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments - University of Bristol Lifescience

Key contacts

Simon Kale

Managing Director

Tom Brickell CMLI

Associate Director

Anna Preddy

Senior Professional

Jamie Farnell

Director

Rosie Wong

Associate

Eleanor Hall

Senior Professional

Claire Studley

Graduate

We are here to help you

Delivering robust assessments is at the heart of what we do.
We can use our expertise to also provide:

Townscape or Seascape and Visual Impact Assessment
Landscape and Visual Appraisals
Landscape Character Assessments

Townscape or Seascape and Visual Impact Assessment

We can prepare Landscape, Townscape, Seascape and Visual Impact Assessments. Our experience includes UK cities, sensitive coastal locations encompassing National Landscapes, Heritage Coasts and World Heritage Sites.

Landscape and Visual Appraisals

If your development does not require a full Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, we can provide you with an Appraisal report with a proportionate level of appraisal to meet your specific requirements.

Landscape Character Assessments

Through undertaking desk studies and site survey work, we can prepare landscape character assessments at strategic and local levels to inform the planning, assessment and design process.