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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...
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...
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