State of Environment

How’s Devon’s environment doing?

These pages will be updated in the next few months as the 2021 version of the Devon State of Environment Report is published.

Oxeye daisies in front of a church in Devon What sort of condition is our environment in right now? How is land use and landscape changing? What’s happening to wildlife habitats? How about our air, water and soils? And what difference will a growing population and climate change make?

These are among the big questions addressed in the 2018 State of the Environment report for Devon and Torbay. 2018.

Click on the chapters below to read more about that. Most chapters contain direct links to the relevant mapped information on Devon County Council’s Environment Viewer.

People and Economy

Accessibility and Recreation

Historic Environment

Landscape

Land Use

Wildlife

State of Devon’s Nature Report

Transport

Water

Flood Risk

Waste

Climate Change and Energy

Geology and Soils

Air Quality