County Galway Landscape Sensitivity Ratings CDP 2022 2028

Produced as part of the Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028. See www.galway.ie for further details.

A landscape’s capacity to absorb new development, without exhibiting a significant alteration of character or change of appearance is referred to as it’s ‘sensitivity’. This depends on factors such as elevation, slope, as well as the types of land-cover and soil. Landscape sensitivity increases when one or more of these factors occur in the same place. e.g. development on a steep heather-covered elevated site on shallow soils is highly likely to be visually prominent over a wide area Arising from this analysis the following Sensitivity Ratings have been defined.