Landscape, Design & Historic Environment

You will need permission to carry out work on trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) and may also need it if a tree is located within a conservation...

When considering applications which affect Heritage Assets (which includes listed Buildings, Conservation Areas, Historic Parks and Gardens, Scheduled Monuments, and Historic Battlefields), applicants are expected to describe the significance of...

What is a listed building? A Listed Building is a building or structure which is considered to be of ‘special architectural or historic interest’.  The Secretary of State for Culture,...

What do we mean by the historic built environment? The South Downs National Park has a wonderful inheritance of buildings and standing structures from the past thousand years of human...

National Parks are a landscape designation. They are representative of the very best of UK landscapes in terms of their Natural Beauty, Wildlife and Cultural Heritage. Landscape matters to people and...

The following pages provide you with information to help you make better design choices for your building project. If your project needs planning permission, it will help you and your...

The following pages explain how to deliver positive outcomes for landscape through planning applications within the South Downs National Park (SDNP). The basics of how to use proportionate landscape evidence...

Biodiversity Net Gain Mandatory Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is an ambitious and world-leading government strategy to ensure that habitat for wildlife is in a measurably better state than it was...