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Effective Integrated Masterplanning
A masterplan is a critical tool for any development, whether at the level of an individual site or a comprehensive development scheme. A robust masterplan, supported by a delivery plan, is fundamental to maximising land value and development of sustainable...
Environmental Interpretation
The Landmark Practice has for many years created interpretive materials such as environmental interpretation boards to guide visitors around sites such as nature reserves, public amenity areas, cultural heritage features, nuclear power stations, and National Park...
#30 Days Wild Challenge
How does a company which specialises in environmental consultancy celebrate the Wildlife Trust’s #30 Days Wild challenge? Friends and clients have scratched their heads when we‘ve mentioned it, assuming that wild challenge is what we do daily for a living. There...
Return of the Swifts
Swifts are a sign of summer. They arrive from Africa, normally in late April/early May and leave again in early August. The Landmark Practice’s first sightings this year were near Avonmouth and in the Chew Valley on 4 and 5 May respectively. The RSPB describes the...
Licenses to Deal with European Protected Species in Development
One of the matters on which environmental consultants and developers have long found common ground is that the site-based habitat compensation approach to the protection of European Protected Species (EPS) has helped neither delivery of development nor in most...
Architectural Graphics Services
Many of our clients’ successes, whether led by our environmental planning, ecology, or landscape teams, should be credited (at least in part) to the efforts of Guillermo Sanchez (or just Sanchez) who manages Landmark’s Architectural Graphics service. Our clients are...
Using remote cameras for wildlife surveys
Wildlife film watchers will be very familiar with the images captured by remote cameras all over the world. Whilst we don’t have ready access to Serengeti wildlife, Landmark also uses remote cameras to monitor ecological activity at our clients’ sites. It...
Planning for Landscape and Visual Assessment
Terminology Overload There are a number of terms to describe the landscape and visual information that is needed to support the grant of planning permissions. In addition to the industry and professional standard ‘Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments’ (LVIAs) or...
Housing White Paper- reaching for the skies
Delivering high quality sustainable homes and environments which genuinely reflect local character will need developers, designers and engineers to employ imaginative and intelligent thinking, with particular attention paid to creation of quality places and spaces on varying levels and scales.
Biosecurity on Development Sites
The price of eggs The lockdown on poultry keepers that started in December 2016 to contain the spread of avian influenza brought into sharp relief the need for biosecurity measures in everyday commercial and recreational activities. The outbreak spread from an...
When should you screen for EIA?
Our series of topical EIA articles in advance of the May 16th deadline for significant changes in UK EIA process continues with consideration of when developers should be considering screening for EIA. Screening for EIA – the critical first step The process of...
Bridging the Gap in the heart of Bristol (Finzels Bridge)
Following on from our appointment back in April 2015, we are pleased to see that the landing point of the new 91 metre long Finzels Bridge over Bristol’s Floating Harbour is taking shape and nearing completion. The new bridge has been designed to give a much needed...
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