Landscape Character Network

This page contains links to useful resources, on the LCN site and elsewhere, relating to the application of Landscape Character Assessment in marketing local distinctiveness.

• Exploration of the Relationship Between Locality Foods and Landscape Character - Main Report (3.4mb)
  This report, prepared for the Countryside Agency LAR by Land Use Consultants in association with Carol Trewin and Laura Mason and published in August 2006, explores the relationship between locality foods and landscape character. It considers the affiliation between foods and the area from which they derive, and identifies identify locality foods and food products closely linked with a specific landscape which have the potential to gain protected food name status.
• Exploration of the Relationship Between Locality Foods and Landscape Character - Report Annexe (1.7mb)
  An annexe to the report described above, this contains a list of locality food products that bring clear landscape benefits and have
  the potential to meet the requirements of protected food name
  status. Each product is described in detail.