Green Infrastructure

Our team offers a range of strategic planning, design and management services for clients seeking to deliver green and blue infrastructure for supporting healthy, resilient and sustainable communities. 

We operate across the UK and have a strong understanding of relevant policy, guidance and best practice approaches to green infrastructure (GI) planning, design and management.  

Our GI work has received awards for professional excellence from the Landscape Institute and the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Core services include:

We have a strong track record in providing strategic green infrastructure (GI) frameworks to support sustainable development through local plans.

Our services include:

• Sub-regional GI frameworks and district-wide GI strategies/delivery plans

• GI/ecosystem services/natural capital assessments & opportunity mapping

• GI planning policy research and advice

• Stakeholder engagement

Some examples of our work include:

• Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole GI Strategy

• Wiltshire GI Strategy

• Torfaen GI Strategy

• South Oxfordshire & Vale of White Horse GI Strategy

• Monmouthshire GI Strategy

• Wealden GI Strategy

• Central Lincolnshire GI Strategy

• 6Cs (Derbys, Notts & Leics) GI Strategy

• Greater Norwich GI Strategy

• Buckinghamshire GI Strategy

• Greater Harlow GI Plan

We work with local planning authorities and developers to develop practical planning and design guidance to support sustainable development.

Our services include:

• Supplementary planning documents / design guidance

• GI masterplanning and design advice for developers

Some examples of our work include:

• Runnymede GBI SPD, Surrey

• Monmouthshire GI SPG, South East Wales

• Milton Keynes GI Design Guide, Buckinghamshire

• Greater Harlow GI Developer Guidelines, Essex

• Wilton Park Housing Scheme, Buckinghamshire

• South Hailsham Housing Scheme, East Sussex

We provide management plans for greenspaces in a wide range of rural and urban locations.

Some examples of our work include:

• Panshanger Park Management Plan, Hertfordshire

• Walthamstow Wetlands Management Plan, East London

• River Avon Park Management & Maintenance Plan, Bristol

• Richmond Swale Valle Woodland Management Plan, North Yorkshire