Detail from Godrevy at Dusk by Frank Leavesley - a beautiful sunset

Cornwall National Landscape Tranquillity survey

Please complete our short survey to give your views. This survey will close on 31 March 2025.

Tranquillity is an important factor of natural beauty and people's enjoyment and engagement with nature and outside space.

We want to understand how different people experience tranquillity, and how they feel when visiting the outdoors, and we know that these experiences won’t be the same for everyone.

Privacy Notice

We will use the information you provide to inform our work and shape future research into tranquillity.

The Data Controller for the information you provide in this survey is Cornwall Council, New County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro TR1 3AY. Data Protection Registration Number: Z1745294. Once the survey has closed, your data will be held within Cornwall Council’s secure network and premises for up to 2 years. Where we ask you to supply personal data on this form, we will only make access to this data available to authorised members of staff who are required to process it for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice. Please note that other information you provide, such as responses to open questions, may be published in full.

The survey results will be shared with Falmouth University.

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Imagine a tranquil place...

Before you start answering the questions, we’d like you to think of a place when you felt tranquil - whatever that feeling means to you. Please take a moment to really picture the scene and your surroundings. Close your eyes and imagine being there…

Where are you? Please briefly describe your location. This might be a specific place that you can name. Or it might be a general description of a place.

Who are you with? Are you alone? Or with other people or animals?

What are you doing? Doing an activity? Sitting and simply looking, standing, moving around?

What can you see? Please name a few things that are in your surroundings – whatever seems important.

What else can you sense? What can you hear, smell, taste, touch?

Can you describe your feelings? Perhaps these are different to those you feel before you are in this place.

Do you notice anything else about the environment? What is the weather like? What is the temperature like?

Can you say what time of day or night it is?