Section 6 Monitoring Landscape Change

The Monitoring Landscape Change project (Hunting Technical Services Ltd 1986) assessed land use change in England and Wales between 1947, 1969 and 1980. The results were derived from aerial photo interpretation of stratified random samples within soil strata in each county (based on the county boundaries established in 1974). The sample covered 2.4% of England and Wales in total. Areas of different land use types (in 1947, 1969 and 1980) at the county level, and matrices of change at the regional level, are published in the MLC reports (volumes 1, 3-6 and 10) (Hunting Technical Services Ltd 1986). Because these date from 1947 & 1980, they were not used in the current project which focusses on 1990-2019, but they are available to be used in future work.