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Metadata

Landscape Character Areas

Title
LandscapeCharacterAreas
Alternative Title

Landscape Character Areas, LCA
Dataset Language
eng
Abstract

Landscape character is defined as 'a distinct, recognisable and consistent pattern of elements in the landscape that makes one landscape different from another, rather than better or worse'. Put simply, landscape character is that which makes an area unique.
The Hertfordshire Landscape Character Area data has been developed to support better decision-making with regard to landscape conservation and management and development planning and management.
Maps have been used to record analysts', field surveyors' and consultees' views and the landscape has been subdivided into areas which have an 'identity', typically linked to physical or cultural factors,
but which may simply be recognised as such by local communities. These areas are described in detail in landscape character area statements. The statements can be used by developers,
their agents and planners and charitable bodies to help guide development and landscape change to be more sustainable. Developers' agents and charities in particular may find it helpful to have the boundaries as GIS data to use in their own systems.
Landscape Character Assessment has been undertaken widely in one form or another since the 1970s,
however the current coverage of landscape character assessment across the country derives from government and government agency policy in the 1990s. A hierarchy of scale is found helpful,
and the Hertfordshire Landscape Character Assessment provides local detail to support the broad National Character Area statements being prepared by Natural England for similar purposes.
Landscape Character Areas boundaries do not consistently follow any one landscape element, although field boundaries are frequently used.
Some urban areas are excluded from the surrounding Landscape Character Areas because they are predominately urban in character (and are recorded as "No Landscape Character Area" in the data).
Topic Category

environment
Keyword
Keyword Value:Countryside Conservation, Landscape, Landscape Character Areas, LCA, Hertfordshire
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes (GEMET)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: 2008-01-01
Temporal Extent

from -- to --
Dataset Reference Date

Date:2000 -2009
Date Type: publication, revision
Lineage

Originally there were 6 files, created at different times:
  • South Herts (2000)
  • St. Albans (2001)
  • Dacorum (2003)
  • East Herts (2004)
  • Welwyn Hatfield (2005)
  • North Herts (2006)

    • These were combined and additional Non-Landscape Character Areas created for the urban areas to give full coverage for the county.
    Boundaries were re-digitised and mered to the 1:10,00 Scale Raster data, at a viewing scale of 1:2,000.
    Revised boundaries were validated by site survey.

    IPR:Ordnance Survey
    Product: 1;10000 Raster Image
    Date:2009
    IPR: Hertfordshire County Council's Intellectual Property Rights
    Extent
    Hertfordshire County
    Vertical Extent

    -
    Spatial Reference System

    OSGB36 - National Grid of Great Britain
    Spatial Resolution

    1m
    Resource Locator

    Layerfile for use by HCC internal staff:\\Geodata\HCC\Environ\HBRC\LCA\Landscape Character Areas.Lyr
    Format
    ESRI/SDE, ESRI#&47; Shape file
    Responsible Organisation

    Hertfordshire County Council - Corporate GIS Team
    Email :gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk
    Role: Resource Provider, Custodian, Owner, Distributor, Originator, Point of Contact, Processor, Publisher, Author.
    Limitations on Public Access

    Open Government Licence for public sector information.
    Use Constraints

    Licenced on terms equivalent to OS OpenData;
    You must use the following Copyright Acknowledgement:
    Contains public sector information from Hertfordshire County Council.
    Licensed on terms equivalent to OS OpenData.
    Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012
    See: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf
    Users should note that the data is not intended to be used as definitive but indicative.
    This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any kind,
    either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law, including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

    This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any
    kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law,including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.
    Additional information

    Information about Landescape Character from Natural England: LandscapeCharacterArea
    Landscape of Hertfordshire - character assessment (hertsdirect.org):Character Assessments
    Resource Identifier

    Conformity

    Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
    as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services.
    2010-12-08
    notEvaluated
    Re-designing HCC Data for INSPIRE not done
    Equivalent scale

    Bounding box
    0.76, 0.22, 51.58, 52.10
    Quality scope
    Dataset
    Spatial representation type

    vector
    Character encoding
    UTF-8
    Data quality
    -
    Maintenance information
    maintenance and update frequency:Unknown
    update scope:
    maintenance note:
    Metadata update date
    -2021-11-24
    Metadata Language

    English
    Metadata Point of Contact

    Hertfordshire County Council - Corporate GIS Team
    Email :gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk
    Resource Type

    6 Dataset
    File Identifier
    Hierarchy level name
    dataset
    Parent identifier
    -
    Metadata standard name

    UK GEMINI
    Metadata standard version
    2.3
    Review date
    -
    Attributes
    Name Long Name Description

    OSGB36 National Grid Bounding Coordinates

    West: 486000 East: 552000 North: 245000 South: 189000
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    Change History