Portfolio

Landscape Planning

Protecting, managing and planning our rural landscapes, townscapes and seascapes

The Thameslink Programme is a £5.5bn scheme to increase passenger capacity through London, and to the north. Land Use Consultants, as part of our work with the Temple Group, undertook the assessment of potential impacts on townscape, built heritage and visual amenity arising from the project, through central London.

Thameslink

An exciting new framework for monitoring change in some of England’s most beautiful landscapes

AONB Monitoring Project and the Cornwall AONB Atlas

Landscape and visual expert witness services for a proposed wind farm in Leicestershire

Swinford Wind Farm Landscape and Visual Expert Witness Services

A 5-year programme to develop understanding and responsibility for the future landscapes of the South West region

South West Future Landscapes Programme

An intellectually challenging project involving fieldwork around some of England’s finest wild landscapes including Mallerstang on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, the distinctive Howgills and the remote limestone fells at Orton

Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks

A project working alongside the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority and its agency partners to define the special environmental and cultural qualities which should be reflected in the way the area is planned and managed.

Special Qualities of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

Scottish Borders Council identified the need for 1000 new homes. Our study revealed the visual impact of this and other options on an area noted for its beauty.

Charlesfield New Village

A Landscape Planning Study and Landscape Strategy for the Isle of Bute

Discover Bute

Setting the visions and objectives for Dartmoor National Park for the next 20 years

Dartmoor National Park Management Plan Review

Definition of buffer zones as part of the nomination of the Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site.

Antonine Wall - Buffer Zones

The evidence base for the LDF, and a strategy to guide appropriate change in the landscapes and seascapes of Northumberland for the future

Landscape assessments and recommendations for Northumberland

Development of a 3D tool to guide future development affecting the Tower’s setting, in order to protect the special visual character of the World Heritage Site

Managing the setting of the Tower of London

Designing the grounds for a replacement high school, in keeping with its distinctive location

Anderson High School

Character assessment is a well-established tool for managing change in the rural context, but this innovative study applied the approach to the historic urban environment of Oxford

Character Assessment of Oxford in its landscape setting

Hampstead Heath means something to most Londoners. Through research and consultation, we attempt to answer the question,

What is Hampstead Heath?

An integrated Green Infrastructure Strategy which ensures that properly planned greenspace is set sensitively within its landscape and ecological context

Thetford Green Infrastructure Study

A complex and challenging multi-disciplinary project to define, and assess the environmental effects of, a major energy infrastructure project of national importance

South West Scotland Renewables Connection Project

Influencing the siting of energy crops to minimise adverse impact on the landscape

The sensitivity of Devon’s landscapes to biomass crops

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