LUC is proud to be a founding signatory of the UK Landscape Architects Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency petition.

We’re joining other UK landscape architects to act in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. Members have pledged to design landscapes with a positive impact on the environment, which form a self-sustaining system.

Since our establishment as the UK’s first multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy in 1966, we have followed the core tenets of sustainability. Our planning work has been at the forefront of climate change adaption and mitigation. Our approach to landscape design has always been responsive to environmental and social conditions. We seek to achieve long term and sustainable benefits for communities, landscapes and habitats.

The need for this approach to be refocussed and sharpened is imperative given the climate change and biodiversity emergency. LUC is committed to continued efforts in our planning, design and landscape management work to achieve the most positive impacts possible.

Actions proposed by UK Landscape Architects Declare

• Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for practical action amongst clients co-consultants and supply chains.
• Preserve and protect existing irreplaceable landscapes and habitats whilst protecting and optimising areas of functional and biodiverse landscape in all developments.
• Adopt a whole systems approach to landscape design recognising that soils, bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi are key factors for ecosystem survival and carbon sequestration.
• Promote low embodied carbon, and look to maximise carbon sequestering, responsible and sustainable use of water and biodiversity net gains in all projects.
• Establish climate and biodiversity mitigation, adaptation and resilience principles as the key measure of the industry’s success: demonstrated through awards, prizes and listings.

Landscape Architects Declare is part of Construction Declares, a global petition movement uniting all strands of construction and the built environment.

Click here to sign up to the declaration.