News

With the new legal requirement for increased biodiversity, and to encourage wildlife to our sites, have we as an industry really thought about how the traditional design of our built environment may not be set up to protect existing habitats or to encourage new?

We’re delighted to welcome civil engineer Gareth Dugine to the Land Studio team.

With space at a premium in the UK, it’s time to look up and rethink how we design our roof tops. Land Studio’s Director of Civil Engineering Lisa Sawyer explores why we need to speed up and catch up with other European cities who have been making them part of the urban landscape for decades.

We’ve been looking at some of the changes in legislation coming up this year which we hope will have a positive impact for the environment and climate change – and benefit not just our children but future generations too. We have three key questions to ask.

We’ve had a busy start to 2024 with work underway on three new client projects.

Will Schedule 3 finally be implemented in England in 2024?

Read about why we think the new Green Infrastructure policy is a positive step for the built environment.

Landscape Design Reports often accompany the landscape proposals submitted as part of a planning application.

We’re working on the design and access for a proposed £11m development at an outdoor education and specialist college in Cheshire.

We’re part of the team working to deliver Wrexham Glyndŵr University’s new Enterprise Engineering and Optics Centre (EEOC) on their Plas Coch campus in Northup, Flintshire.

What are the updates to the Planning Policy Wales, and how do they affect my project?

Land Studio founder Simon Richards has written an article for the Design Commission for Wales on the importance of creating a wilder network of green spaces to help unlock the future of our towns and cities.