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High rise peregrine mitigation at Rampisham Down
The Landmark Practice has been working with British Renewables at its Rampisham Down site for several years. The 190-acre site, which includes the former BBC radio transmission station which transmitted the World Service to Europe until six years ago, was...
Air Pollution – Hedgerows Can Help
A sobering new report from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health cites pollution as the largest environmental cause of disease and premature deaths, responsible for 16% of all deaths worldwide and in Britain, for 50,000 deaths a year. Air pollution...
Green Brexit
Amid the ongoing controversy raging between Whitehall and Brussels over the EU-UK divorce settlement (Brexit), the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill has been wending its bumpy way through Government since July. The overarching intent of the Bill is simple, set out in...
Planning for Housing in Bristol and the West of England
The Publication Version of the West of England Draft Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) was agreed by the leaders of the Combined Authority, on 30 October, to be recommended to the member councils (Bristol, Bath and North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and North...
Landmark Practice clients achieve Outstanding and Excellent BREEAM Accreditations (BREEAM ecology assessments)
Landmark ecologists acting as the Suitably Qualified Ecologist (SQE) for BREEAM ecology assessments have helped to secure impressive BREEAM Accreditations for mixed-use developments in Bristol and Swindon. The first, Aurora at Finzels Reach, is part of the £250...
Brexit, Society, Economy, Environment. Where next?
June has been a momentous month. The UK General election followed hot on the heels of May’s local and mayoral elections, Brexit negotiations opened between the UK government and the EU, and appalling tragedies were wrought by terrorist violence and the fire at...
Ecological Monitoring: Another Successful Year for Barn Owls at Avonmouth
The warm early spring has meant that birds started nesting early this year. This was certainly evident from our annual barn owl box checks in Avonmouth where we found barn owl chicks at least 5 weeks earlier than recorded at the same site in 2016. The Landmark...
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...
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