Randall Thorp welcome the Landscape Institute Technical Guidance Note 1/20 (10 Jan 2020) ‘Reviewing Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIAs) and Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVAs)’ which seeks to raise the consistency and standard of assessments. Click here to find out more.

An Appeal was allowed in December 2019, granting outline planning permission for up to 80 dwellings on land off Broad Street, Clifton in Central Bedfordshire. Click here to find out more about our role as masterplanners and expert witness for landscape and visual matters.

As part of our social responsibility we encourage all our team to use their skills and our resources to benefit our environment, our profession and our communities. We're delighted that by being a member of  the Landscape Institute's Climate and Biodiversity Panel Sean is contributing to all three.

Ella has been on site for the Community Recreation Facility progress meetings at Hayfield Lane, Doncaster in recent weeks. The proposals include a Multi-use Games Area, grass sports pitch and natural play area, which are now starting to take shape on site.

Within the space of a week two of our projects have featured on TV. Beaulieu Square for Countryside Properties was featured on BBC's the One Show last week and it was great to see the grounds of Lytham Hall hosting the BBC Antiques Roadshow on Sunday evening. There are some fantastic images of the house and gardens, which were restored with Heritage Lottery Funding.

We are delighted to announce that our client Sherdley Estates has obtained full planning permission for 180 new homes off Elton Head Road, St Helens. Randall Thorp produced the masterplan and Design and Access Statement for the outline planning application in 2015, and more recently provided detailed landscape proposals to accompany the Reserved Matters planning application.

Randall Thorp are delighted to be part of the EIA team supporting this residential-led mixed use development on the former Kellogg's site in Old Trafford. Randall Thorp will be producing the Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment chapter of the Environmental Statement.

The Design Council is in the process of creating a National Design Guide for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to support the NPPF. We are delighted that they wish to include images of our work at Beaulieu as an example of good housing. We look forward to seeing the published Design Guide shortly.

Dick Longdin and Joanne Folland were invited by Peel Land and Property to present an educational and engaging CPD session on the subject of LVIAs. Despite the potential dry nature of the subject matter, Dick and Jo made the session entertaining as well as informative. Do get in touch with us @randallthorp if you would like to arrange a CPD event.   #masterplanning #team #teamwork #training #cpd #today #LVIAs