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Nature Directives: Good for Wildlife, Good for Business
One of Landmark's driving principles, since we were established in 1985, has been 'landscape design based on sound ecological principles'. In our 30 years of business we have seen our scope and range of services increase from pure landscape design, to...
UK Energy policy turned on its head
Thomas Middleton’s play, A Mad World, My Masters, is a satirical tale of life in early 17th-century London. It tells the story of underhand tactics used by a group of characters to manipulate influence in the pursuance of wealth and power. The Royal...
Sunshine at Triodos Windfarm Open Day
On 6 June The Landmark Practice was part of Triodos Renewables family fun day at its Avonmouth wind farm. As well as marking Triodos Renewables 20th anniversary, the event kicked off Bristol’s Big Green Week, the annual festival which this year extended into two...
Silverlake Vacation Homes, Dorset
In early May, West Dorset District Council granted Reserved Matters permission and pre Commencement Conditions for Silverlake Village 1. This was a significant milestone in Landmark’s client Habitat First Group’s strategy to develop a holiday resort and...
Eye Spy an Otter
Whilst our ecologists were carrying out a survey for great crested newt earlier in the week, they were lucky enough to spot an otter! This species is instantly recognisable given its brown coat, flattened head and thick tapering tail. Unfortunately its appearance was...
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) – tool to support sustainable development
Last week, members of our landscape team attended an informative CPD day organised by the Landscape Institute South West Branch. The theme was ‘People, Place, Identity: The Application of Character Assessment to Shaping Our Environment’. Over the course of the day...
Landmark’s Core Values
The exercise Almost 2 years ago now, Landmark undertook an exercise to identify our ‘core values’ - the values that form the basis of our day-to-day work and by which we conduct ourselves. I’ll be honest, the invitation to staff to contribute to the exercise was met...
Entrepreneurial Women in Renewable Energy (EWiRE) – Girls gets off the dance floor!
The Landmark Practice attended a very motivational event on the 13 March 2015; a networking event aimed at bringing together entrepreneurial women of the renewables sector. The EWiRE initiative The purpose of the EWiRE initiative is to address the under-representation...
Green Infrastructure Policy
Q. When is ‘Guidance’ not guidance? A. When it’s removed from the Government website. Early in 2015 the Government removed the link between National Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG) and Green Infrastructure (GI) guidance on the Natural England website. ...
Green Infrastructure: It’s Good For You!
Regular followers of our Twitter accounts (@TLPBlog and @TLPEcology) will know that, here at Landmark, we take health and wellbeing pretty seriously. To lick us into better shape we have secured the services of Functional Fitness to run a...
Election 2015 – The Landmark ‘Manifesto’
Climate change needs to be at the centre, not the periphery, of the coming General Election.
Formal vs Informal EIA Scoping
In 2014, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive was codified and the EIA Regulations are due to be amended this year. Recently, government think tanks have focused on potential EIA Screening threshold changes but in general there is a strong emphasis on...
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