The historic character of the landscape shouldtherefore be considered alongside other aspects ofcharacter and visual and aesthetic issues when framingplanning policies or determining individual applications,and landscape capacity and sensitivity analyses shouldalways include the historic localauthorities have completed an appraisal of this historic dimension of the landscape as part of theEnglish Heritage-sponsored Historic LandscapeCharacterisation programme,this appraisal should be incorporated in the overall assessment of landscape impact. In considering the landscape effects of wind energydevelopments,planning authorities should have regardto the immediate landscape impacts of the project,tothe impacts of related secondary developments such as power lines and transmission stations,and to thecumulative effects of.
