The Landmark Practice Blog

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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The environmental planning pages of The Landmark Practice website have been updated. Take a look here

The Landmark Practice’s Environmental Planning team has helped Wessex Water to gain planning approval for four wind turbines at the Bristol sewage treatment works site at Avonmouth.

This is the third wind energy scheme to be granted planning approval in Bristol and The Landmark Practice has managed the environmental planning issues for all three: (more…)

We are proud to announce that The Landmark Practice landscape team is featured in the ‘team profile’ section of the latest edition of Vista (13 March 2009), the official magazine of the Landscape Institute.

The article includes a ‘question and answer’ section and gives the following introduction to The Landmark Practice:

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