The Landmark Practice Blog

Despite world-wide economic gloom The Landmark Practice is busy as ever, and its landscape team was enlarged over the winter with the arrival of two new senior landscape architects. We are delighted to welcome Ben Oakman, formerly with Novell Tullett, and Matt Summers, who previously worked for The Landscape Practice in Sherborne, Dorset.

Bristol City Council Energy Management Unit was this afternoon granted planning consent to develop two 3MW wind turbines at Avonmouth. This scheme, the first by a local authority in England, has been in preparation for several years.

The application scheme was led and project managed by The Landmark Practice environmental planning department, which also undertook the project EIA. Planning support for the team was provided by GVA Grimley. (more…)

Since 1 May 2008, it has been mandatory for all new homes to have a Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) rating. BREEAM building assessments are required by various regulatory and government organisations such as English Partnerships, The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Housing Corporation, The Welsh Assembly, Government Regional Development Agencies and Local Authorities.The Landmark Practice is working with a number of clients to achieve required ecology and landscape credits under various BREEAM (The Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method) and CSH (formerly EcoHomes) assessments. These have included a Persimmon housing development at Portishead (EcoHomes), an office development for Shepherd Developments at Emersons Green, Bristol (BREEAM offices), Filton High School, Bristol (BREEAM schools), a Bloor Homes residential development at St. Peter’s Park, Radstock (CSH assessment) and South Devon College, Paignton (BREEAM Bespoke).

To visit the BREEAM website click here

September 2008 saw the unveiling ceremony of a great crested newt mosaic at Marnel Park, Basingstoke. The unveiling ceremony was the culmination of a project involving the internationally-acclaimed artist Julieann Worrall Hood and year seven children at Everest Community College, Basingstoke funded by David Wilson Homes. The forms a focal point at the heart of the development.The Landmark Practice has been closely involved with the development at Marnel Park for eight years.

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