This group is called Farming, Forestry, Landscape and Biodiversity, but it started out as the food group. It’s dealing with the environment (natural, man made, historical) and climate change too, but that would have been an even longer group name.
For information about this group contact Pippa: pippapotamus@hotmail.co.uk
The Group’s Terms of Reference are here:FFLB Tor 2015-2
Below is a link to a guide to creating a character assessment – buildings and landscape rather than people. CharacterAssessmentToolkitDetailedCharacterAssessment
Here’s a case study from Locality about local character and design in Higham Ferrers
Here is a link to the publications page of the Woodland Trust
Here is the Dartington Parish Map
And some of Malcolm’s aerial photographs
Below is DHT’s updated (April 2015) Land Use Review map, although I’m told it’s out of date and thee are some mistakes on it.