Covid time
16 March 2020
Our team has successfully transitioned to the new norm of working from home and video meetings. #stayathome #protecttheNHS #savelives
Planning approval in Ashton-under-Lyne
17 February 2020
Our client Taylor Wimpey has secured approval for their 295 home scheme on a brown field site at Ashton-under-Lyne. Landscape design and CGI visuals by Randall Thorp.
Leeds University lecture
06 February 2020
Randall Thorp has always been passionate about maintaining links with education. Today Dick continued his Masterplanning Masterclass tour with a presentation to final year students at Leeds Becket University. "The best lecture we've ever had!"
Magazine feature
04 February 2020
Taylor Wimpey in-house magazine featured a double page spread on Cambourne, the award winning new settlement in Cambridgeshire that Randall Thorp have been masterplan consultant for since 1998 and landscape consultant since 1989! We hope our work here will inspire the new wave of garden villages and garden suburbs now being planned throughout the UK.
New Landscape Institute guidance for reviewers of LVIAs/LVAs
30 January 2020
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.
Appeal allowed for housing in ‘Important Countryside Gap’
20 December 2019
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.
Climate and Biodiversity
27 November 2019
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.
Hayfield Play area construction
01 November 2019
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.
TV features for two projects
01 October 2019
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.