Much of our work involves assisting clients through specialist consultancy services relating to planning permission, construction and development:-

  • Planning Applications
  • Detailed negotiations
  • Planning Condition Discharge
  • LVIA Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
  • Landscape Character Assessment
  • Tree Reports to BS5837
  • Tree Impact Assessments and Arboricultural Method Statements
  • Ecology Surveys
  • Wildlife & Habitat Management
  • Design Masterplans
  • Mitigation Proposals
  • Integrated Tree & Softworks Schemes
  • Assistance with credit scores for BREEAM & Code for Sustainable Homes assessments
  • Management Plans

Thorough assessment of the impacts of development proposals is now an integral part of most planning applications. Our work provides planning decision support valued by our clients and frequently enables us to produce mitigation proposals to ensure development intrusion on the wider landscape and important environmental factors are minimised.

Our advice is sought by developers and their agents for proposals ranging from individual residential properties to commercial premises in sensitive locations and mineral extraction sites in rural areas.

Awards

  • Landscape Institute Presidents Award 1993
  • BBC Designer of the Year Award 1994
  • RIBA Presidents Award 1994 Woodlea Primary School
  • La Parc de la Villette, Paris
  • Liverpool National Garden Festival, Gold Medal
  • 4 Civic Trust Awards