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What's the difference between Land Parcels and Land Cover
What's the difference between Land Parcels and Land Cover
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Written by Simla Rees-Moorlah
Updated over a week ago

According to the RPA the definition are as follows.

Land parcels

A land parcel is an area of land that is 0.0100 hectares (ha) or larger with physical boundaries.

Examples of physical boundaries are:

  • hedges, walls, rivers, drains, ditches, roads

  • obvious changes such as woodland next to grass

  • watercourses if wider than 4 metres (m) can sometimes be used as a boundary

  • boundary stones and marker posts

Land cover

We classify land by identifying the physical nature of the land, referred to as land covers.

Table 1 shows the 4 land cover groups, and some examples of the land uses in each group.

Table 1: Examples of land cover and land use

Land cover

Land use examples

Arable land

Winter wheat - Spring barley - Temporary grassland

Permanent grassland

Permanent grassland

Permanent crops

Nursery crops - Short rotation coppice - Lavender

Non-agricultural area

Farm building - Structure - Woodland

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