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Time to Capture Winter Views for LVIA
Winter’s on the way and it’s the perfect time for our Landscape Architects to be getting out on site to undertake Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA). With trees losing their leaves, visibility is at its peak which allows us to best assess the visual...
Avonmouth Wind Turbines Open Day
We are very much looking forward to attending the upcoming Avonmouth Wind Turbines Open Day with Thrive Renewables, as part of Bristol Open Doors. If you live in the Bristol area or are a regular user of the M5 motorway you may well be familiar with the...
The Landmark Practice Welcomes Jamie Hole as Landscape Architect
The Landmark Practice are delighted to welcome back Jamie Hole to our Landscape team. Jamie first joined us back in 2014-2015 for his year out placement as part of his undergraduate studies at the University of Sheffield. Since then he has gone on to gain experience...
Does My Bum Look Big in This? – Scoping and Pricing Work
A question dreaded by partners everywhere as, let’s be frank, there is no ‘right answer’. If you are candid and say yes then you will suffer the consequences. If you say no, and it happens that it does, then you have failed to do the right thing for...
Planning for a Smart Energy Future
The Landmark Practice, as part of a team with Regen, Pell Frischmann and the University of the West of England, was commissioned earlier this year by The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) SW to undertake research on planning for a smart energy future. The purpose...
A week as a Landmark Practice ecologist …
We were lucky enough to accommodate a superb student for work experience placement this summer, enthusiastic and very happy to get stuck in, this is what she thought of her week with us here at The Landmark Practice… “I applied for work experience at The Landmark...
NPPF 2018 – more of the same or catalyst for change?
The much anticipated revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) finally emerged into the light of day on 24 July 2018, on the very last day of Parliamentary business in Westminster. Associated planning practice guidance was published on the same day, although...
Dell Park Community Scheme, Chepstow
The Friends of Dell Park in Chepstow is leading community effort to restore and expand recreation facilities at Dell Park in Chepstow. The Landmark Practice’s Andy Spargo has been working with the group since early 2017 on this rewarding and exciting project....
Game changing decision on Habitats Regulations Assessment – Implications for Planning and Development
The European Court of Justice (CECJ) issued a ruling in April on a dispute concerning the impact on freshwater pearl mussel of a proposed electricity cable serving a wind farm in the Republic of Ireland. The ECJ ruling on this seemingly esoteric case has caused a...
Future National Planning Policy
Proposed revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework There’s been a lot of domestic ‘news’ in the past couple of months. The Salisbury poisoning, late winter freeze and subsequent heatwave, the gender pay gap, Facebook data management, the Windrush...
2017 EIA Regulations: Where We Stand in 2018
There was much discussion about the EIA Regulations last year. Amendments to the European Directive, intended to ‘simplify and harmonise’ procedures were discussed and debated and finally drawn down, for England, into the 2017 EIA Regulations (The Town and...
Plastic and the Environment: Taking Action
In January Theresa May pledged to eradicate all avoidable plastic waste in the UK by 2042. The commitment was part of the government's 25-year plan to improve the natural environment. A week later came the European Commission announcement of targets to cut plastic...
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