ABSTRACT
Enhancement must depend not only on an agreement by the decisionmakers, private or public, that a landscape needs to be improved, but also agreement as to what would constitute improvement. In the case of private ownership this is reasonably straightforward and the owners of a garden will have a clear idea of what they want to achieve. Similarly the farmer will often want to improve soil fertility or crop yields, or in some other way enhance income. Needless to say the latter can cause disagreement with others. The perfect green carpet of improved, heavily fertilised grassland sweeping from hedge to hedge (if such are still present) does not usually please either the artist or the ecologist. Covering the land with caravans pleases some, but not usually the planning agency. But such differences of view become much more difficult to resolve when public land is in question.
