Plan Making
Our team offers a range of landscape, green infrastructure and heritage services for local planning authorities, statutory consultees, developers and local communities seeking robust evidence and expert advice to inform the plan-making process.
We operate across the UK and have a strong understanding of relevant planning policy, guidance and best practice approaches to sustainability appraisal, strategic environmental assessment and plan-making.
Our work has received awards for professional excellence from the Landscape Institute and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Core services include:
Strategic Landscape Planning & Assessment
Our services include:
Landscape, townscape and seascape character assessments
Landscape sensitivity and capacity studies
Development site landscape appraisals
Research & policy advice
Expert witness for local plan examinations
Stakeholder engagement
Some examples of our work include:
Wiltshire Landscape Strategy and Local Plan Sites Landscape Appraisal
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Landscape Character Assessment
Wealden District Local Plan Sites Landscape Appraisal
Richmondshire Local Plan Landscape Sensitivity Study and Sites Landscape Appraisal
West Oxfordshire Local Plan Sites Landscape Appraisal
Heritage Planning & Assessment
Our services include:
Historic environment characterisation
Historic environment sensitivity and capacity studies
Development site heritage appraisal
Research & policy advice
Expert witness for local plan examinations
Stakeholder engagement
Some examples of our work include:
Wiltshire Local Plan Sites Heritage Appraisal
West Oxfordshire Local Plan Sites Heritage Appraisal
Yeovil Fringes Historic Environment Assessment, South Somerset Local Plan
Dorchester Fringes Historic Environment Assessment, Dorset Local Plan
Green Infrastructure Planning
Our services include:
Green infrastructure strategies & delivery plans
Green infrastructure & landscape supplementary planning guidance
Green infrastructure & landscape design guides
Research & policy advice
Stakeholder engagement
Some examples of our work include:
Wiltshire Local Plan GI Strategy
Wealden District Local Plan GI Study
Grantham Area Action Plan GI Strategy, South Kesteven Local Plan
Monmouthshire Local Plan GI Strategy and SPG