The Landmark Practice Blog

Wildflower Meadow at Aardman Animations

The ‘instant wildflower meadow’ which was laid for Aardman Animation’s new headquarters is looking superb.

What once was a macadam factory and then a contractor’s compound is now a wildlife haven in the heart of Bristol.

The Landmark Practice has used soil-less wildflower turf on numerous projects and it has always been spectacularly successful.

Landmark has used this technique in the past to quickly create habitat for a newt translocation project.  The use of this technique in this instance met with Natural England approval.

Steps at Ajloun Castle

Chris is off to Jordan again, working on their tourism infrastructure in Ajloun.

He also hopes to secure a large contract for a climate change study. It is very much needed out there; the predictions for Jordan do not look favourable.

The Landmark Practice Website

Made a few updates to the Landmark Practice website.

New projects added to the interactive map many with a gallery of images,  take a look.

Comments about this blog or our website very welcome.

The Landmark Practice ecologists have been monitoring the effectiveness of the great crested newt mitigation strategy at Marnel Park, Basingstoke. Monitoring has been undertaken since the commencement of the project in 2004 (on behalf of David Wilson Homes) and preliminary analysis shows that the breeding population of great crested newt in Popley Ponds Site of Importance to Nature Conservation (SINC) may even be expanding.

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On 6 April 2008, water voles received full protection under Section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended).

Full legal protection makes it an offence to intentionally kill, injure or take water voles, intentionally or recklessly damage, destroy or obstruct access to any structure or place used for shelter or protection and to intentionally or recklessly disturb water voles whilst occupying a structure or place used for that purpose.

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