Congratulations to Danielle, Steve, Cass, Chloe and Laurie on their promotions. Danielle and Steve become Junior Partners. Cass and Laurie become Senior Associates. Chloe becomes Landscape Architect and Senior Graphic Designer.

Our detailed TVIA (townscape and visual impact assessment) work has assisted another client gain planning approval. The 8 storey King Street office development will bring thousands of new jobs to Blackpool town centre.

Grand Union is a vibrant new canalside neighbourhood from St George Property Developers built on a 22 acre derelict site in Northfields, London. The scheme will provide new apartment homes with 11 acres of extensive public open space comprising plaza, informal garden spaces, water feature, canalside pathways and water side meadows. Residents will enjoy roof gardens, terraces and community gardens. Our work includes refining existing designs for the external public and private areas to provide detailed landscape layouts for planning and construction.

We are proud to support the Landscape Institute's Rainbow Places initiative working to improve EDI in our sector.  The very first Rainbow Places national event saw Randall Thorp Partner Dick Longdin and his husband, actor and gay activist Adam Zane, take part in 'WORKS OUT' an online event discussing personal experiences of being out at work, from the 1980's to the present day. Joining Dick and Adam were Charlotte Harris (Director: Harris Bugg Studio), Rudhira Sambrey (Landscape architecture student) and Oli Grice Jackson (Senior Ecologist, FPCR).

We are delighted to see that our detailed design for the public realm, including our planting design, at Beaulieu for Countryside, is boldly featured as a full page image in the newly published National Design Code.

Outline plans have been submitted for a ecology themed holiday village at Ellel, Lancaster The masterplan was drawn up by a team led by Stride Treglown, withy Randall Thorp advising on landscape matters including a Landscape strategy plan and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment.

After months of hard work, we are delighted to see our client Investar Property Group submit plans for the redevelopment of this key site in Trafford. The Randall Thorp team provided the Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment (TVIA) as well as the landscape strategy for the scheme of 149 apartments in two buildings with the garden and roof terrace taking their inspiration from the Victorian botanical gardens that were once on the site.

We are pleased to have assisted Bloor Homes and Taylor Wimpey with their planning application for 500 homes located within the North West Preston Strategic Allocation. Our role involved masterplanning, landscape design and LVIA work.

We are delighted to announce the approval of reserved matters for 98 homes in Pilsley, near Chesterfield. We are proud to have assisted our client Forge New Homes with their first planning application. We provided a site-wide landscape strategy which identified landscape character areas to enhance legibility and sense of place on the journey through the scheme.