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Planning (Wales) Bill – Welsh policy update
On 6 July 2015 the Planning (Wales) Bill received Royal Assent. The Planning (Wales) Bill The key purposes of the Act are to: Strengthen the plan-led approach to planning. The Bill introduces the National Development Framework for Wales which will set out...
Ash Dieback at Landmark
An outbreak of Ash Dieback Disease (Chalara fraxinea) has been confirmed in our area. Worse still, it’s in the Landmark MD’s garden in the Chew Valley south of Bristol. Nick noticed some possible early signs in late May and these became more marked in June. He...
‘Greening’ the European Green Capital? Lessons from Portland, Oregon
Prior to joining Landmark this summer, our newest recruit to the Landscape Planning team, Morag MacGregor, won the 2014 Landscape Institute Student Travel Award which allowed her to investigate good practice in Green Infrastructure in American cities. Here she shares...
2015 Planning reforms – Fixing the Foundations or Forgetting the Fundamentals?
It is widely understood that the planning system is in place to ensure that development is carried out to a high standard which will benefit communities and the economy without causing negative impact on the environment. At Landmark, we have the benefit of working...
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...
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