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Visiting our schemes at Banwell & Wedmore
Image above: A photo from the Banwell development. Recently, Jamie and Lucy from our landscape team took the chance to visit two sites that we’ve worked on alongside Strongvox Homes in Somerset. Both sites are residential schemes for which we provided landscape...
Collaton Park achieves Building with Nature ‘Full’ Award Accreditation.
We are delighted to announce that our project at Land West of Collaton Park, Devon has achieved Building with Nature ‘Full’ Award (‘Subject to Sign-Off’) Accreditation. Our Clients, Pillar Land Securities and Coln Residential, worked closely with Andy Spargo, one of...
Mulberry Park wins the International Property Awards!
Image: The hub area at Mulberry Park on our last site visit. We are delighted to announce that Mulberry Park has won an award for Landscape Architecture at both regional and European level, at the International Property Awards. We have an especially strong connection...
Reflecting on Podsmead’s Urban Regeneration Proposals
Image: The illustrative plan for the proposals at Podsmead, Gloucester. Not every project we pour our passion into reaches the finish line as planned, and our recent urban regeneration scheme is a perfect example. Although the planning permission was not granted, the...
Award Success for Seabank Community Wind Turbine
We are celebrating a well-deserved victory for the Seabank Community Wind Turbine at the 2025 Regen Green Energy Awards last night. The Scheme was Highly Commended in the ‘Community Led Placemaking’ Planning Award in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Landscape...
Capture Winter Views for LVA and LVIA
Capture Winter Views for LVA and LVIA As we move into winter, this is the perfect time of year for our Landscape Architects to be getting out on site to capture views to inform a Landscape and Visual Appraisal (LVA) or Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)....
Consultation on BS 5837: Trees in Relation to Design, Demolition, and Construction
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released a revised draft of BS 5837 for public consultation. This draft will be open for comments for two months, closing on 15th October 2024. The revisions primarily address overlaps between BS 5837 and BS 8545, identified...
Student Placement
Image: Bat call data collected by the ecology team The Landmark team has been pleased and privileged to be joined over recent weeks by George, a student of MSc Environmental Management at the University of the West of England. George joined us for a consultancy...
Hazel Dormice in Leigh Woods
Photo credit: Sam Rogers The hazel dormouse is one of Britain’s rarest and perhaps most adorable mammals. Most people will never see one in the wild, due to their tiny stature and reclusive nature. Luckily for The Landmark Practice (TLP), Principal Ecologist Sam...
Landscape Institute South West Prize
Landscape Institute South West Prize We are thrilled to announce that Bryn White, our resident landscape architecture student, has been awarded the Landscape Institute South West Prize for the student most engaged with climate change issues. The award ceremony took...
Approval for 19 MW solar farm in Dengie, Essex
We are delighted to announce that planning approval has been granted for a 19 WM solar farm plus 5 MW of battery storage on 33 hectares of land near the village of Dengie, Essex. After an initial refusal in 2023 due to concerns over flooding and landscape character,...
Woodcroft Community Orchard
This week the landscape team travelled to Woodcroft Community Orchard in Brislington for a practical CPD and volunteering session. Senior landscape architect, Lucy Foley, is involved with the community group and saw it as an opportunity to expand the team’s knowledge...
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