Download – East Sussex Landscape Character Assessment
Our Landscape Character Assessment was updated in 2016.
Our LCA sits alongside other local assessments, to provide a strategic overview for East Sussex.
See:
- South Downs National Park – South Downs Integrated Landscape Character Assessment
- West Sussex County Council – Landscape Character Assessment of West Sussex
- Kent County Council – Kent’s landscape assessment
England has been divided into areas which share similar landscape characteristics, called National Character Areas. These provide the background information for more detailed Landscape Character Assessments.
The following links will open documents relating to all of the Landscape Character Areas of East Sussex.
Introduction to the 2016 East Sussex Landscape Character Assessment
Index map of the Landscape Areas
Introduction to the High Weald
2. Ashdown Forest and surrounds
5. South Slopes of The High Weald
Area 16 (Brighton & Hove Downland Fringe) is omitted as Brighton & Hove are not in East Sussex. The South Downs National Park Integrated Landscape Character Assessment includes areas 17 to 23 (see LCA index map), and can be found on the South Down National Park Authority’s Landscape page.
As well as rural areas, the East Sussex LCA takes into account several urban areas, these are:
28–31. Peacehaven & Saltdean, Eastbourne, Bexhill, Hastings
32–34. Seaford, Lewes, Newhaven
35–37. Hailsham, Uckfield, Crowborough
38–40. Heathfield, Rye, Battle
Our LCA sits alongside other local assessments and Natural England’s National Assessment:
- West Sussex County Council – Landscape Character Assessment of West Sussex
- Kent County Council – Kent’s landscape assessment
- Natural England – National Character Areas
For further information contact our County Landscape Architect: