The Circle tool is particularly useful for identifying how far a site is from basic social and transport infrastructure. For example, if you are searching sites for a care home then you might have criteria for distances to the train station, hospital, town centre, etc. You can use the Circle tool in any layer.
How to draw a circle:
Step 1:
Open the drawing toolbar and select the Circle tool.
Step 2:
Click and drag from where you want the centre of the circle to be, so that you can measure the radius from it, say, from a train station like this:
Step 3:
If you want to change the radius, you can set it by entering the amounts in the fields on the right-hand side, either as an exact distance, or a rough estimate of time to travel (e.g. five minutes away).
Step 4:
Duplicate the circle by clicking on the three dots in the panel on the right-hand side and selecting Duplicate.
Step 5:
Delete the circle by clicking on the bin icon.