Landscape is often a determining factor in whether development is considered acceptable in planning terms.
It affects site suitability, capacity, visual impact, Green Belt considerations and Biodiversity Net Gain requirements. If landscape matters are not addressed early and proportionately, they can delay applications, increase mitigation costs or weaken planning strategy.
Our landscape architects provide clear, policy-grounded advice and strategic design input to help you understand risk early and shape development that can be successfully delivered.
We provide structured, defensible landscape input and design that supports your wider planning strategy.
We provide early landscape input to support site promotion, option testing and planning strategy. Early assessment of landscape character and constraints helps identify risks and how development can sit within and respond to its context.
This provides clear advice on site potential and supports informed decision-making from the outset.
We prepare policy-led landscape and visual assessments, including appraisals, impact assessments, Environmental Statement chapters, Green Belt and grey belt reviews, and management strategies. Our reports are clearly structured and policy aligned, helping decision-makers understand effects and mitigation.
This provides robust evidence to support planning applications and appeals.
We provide landscape design input to support masterplanning from the outset, shaping layouts and creating high-quality places. This includes green infrastructure strategy, public realm design and integration with wider proposals.
Our approach ensures landscape adds value to schemes, supporting planning outcomes and long-term, deliverable development.
For sites in sensitive policy areas, we provide landscape analysis to inform openness considerations and mitigation strategy, helping shape how proposals are justified and refined.
This supports your wider planning case and ensures landscape considerations are clearly aligned with development objectives from the outset.
We prepare Landscape and Biodiversity Management Strategies and Biodiversity Net Gain Plans that integrate landscape structure and ecological requirements, embedding biodiversity into scheme design rather than treating it as an add-on.
Our approach focuses on practical, deliverable solutions that meet policy requirements while reflecting commercial realities and supporting long-term site performance.
As part of Marrons’ multidisciplinary consultancy, our landscape architects work closely with planning, urban design, heritage and environmental teams from the outset. This ensures landscape considerations are embedded in the development strategy and design, rather than treated in isolation.
The result is joined-up input, fewer gaps and a coherent planning submission.
If you are promoting land, preparing a planning application or assessing development potential, early landscape input can influence outcome and reduce risk.
We would be pleased to discuss how our landscape planning and design team can support your project.
