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Led by our in-house sustainable drainage engineer Lisa Sawyer, we are working with clients to review water management on sites and retrofit sustainable drainage system (SuDS) where possible to help reduce flooding, remove discharge of surface water to the public sewer systems and reduce pollution to the environment.

This is part of a worldwide movement to bring together all the strands of construction and the built environment to acknowledge the planet’s environmental crisis – and make a positive response.

Planning permission has been secured for one of our projects with the National Trust.

Land Studio’s Lisa Sawyer and Rachael Fenton gave a talk this month on how the integration of SuDS and good landscape design can enhance biodiversity and help to create a sense of place.

We’re working with a growing number of schools in Wales to help them combat climate change, reduce flooding and boost biodiversity.

How will the new Biodiversity Net Gain legislation affect your project?

One of our specialisms at Land Studio is designing within historic places.

In a recent Government report, Levelling-up Secretary Michael Gove said that new housing developments are often let down by ‘poor landscaping or indifferent or insipid urban character’.

DEFRA announced earlier this month that sustainable drainage systems, or SuDS, are to be mandatory by 2024 for new developments.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and the gradual urbanisation of the natural environment, we have become increasingly detached from nature.

All new developments in England will be required to make sustainable drainage systems a mandatory requirement by 2024, a new Government review has announced today.

A formal landscape and visual appraisal can be the key to effective planning decisions.