Planning
The planning team specialises in unlocking a wide variety of development sites, often within the setting of or within designated landscapes, rural village locations, complex townscapes and urban settings. For the last 20 years we have built up unrivalled expertise in producing robust, nuanced landscape and visual impact assessments, that feed into a sustainable landscape – led approach, with a deep understanding of the landscape sensitivities and constraints of specific sites.
We are commercially minded and adept at coordinating complex schemes, incorporating services, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems, Arboriculturally, BNG and Transport etc, to ensure that all the necessary practical and technical requirements are accommodated within the landscape envelope.
Our schemes are always site specific, responding to the unique opportunities and constraints of your site. We are a team of experienced Landscape Architects supported by our Graphic Designers, ensuring that your scheme is robust, policy compliant and incorporates the highest quality presentation graphics and visuals to help sell your vision.
Technical
We take pride in our technical team's ability to create visually stunning and engaging landscapes. Our team uses a variety of technical planting expertise to create both residential and commercial landscapes set within private developments and the public realm. Our landscape designs look to provide a visually stimulating and sustainable design approach, while creating spaces which bring people together.
We offer a full technical design package for our clients, including preparation of detailed hard and soft landscape proposals for tender through to construction status. Post completion packages are also available as part of Aspect’s quality control to ensure successful implementation for Handover is achieved. Throughout the design process we look to engage in meetings with our clients and wider design teams to ensure that their thoughts and ideas are incorporated and coordinated into the final design.
Our Sectors
RESIDENTIAL
We are dedicated to providing our clients with the perfect fit for their unique landscape needs. By collaborating closely with Aspect Ecology and Aspect Arboriculture, we ensure our designs maximise Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) outcomes. Our goal is to deliver high-quality, sustainable landscape solutions across a variety of schemes, ranging from isolated homes within the countryside of “exceptional quality” with reference to paragraph 84E of the NPPF, retirement living, garden villages, high end residential apartment living and new settlements.
COMMERCIAL
Aspect look to create a durable, aesthetically pleasing landscape that complements the functionality of our commercial developments and enhances the overall site environment. Design looks to focus on low-maintenance, cost-effective elements suitable for a commercial setting while ensuring accessibility, visibility, and safety. Our designs approach aims to ensures a professional, attractive environment that aligns with the Client’s functional needs while reducing environmental impact and maintenance requirements.
RENEWABLES
We are experienced in creating solar and battery storage schemes that incorporate diverse landscape features such as rich wildflower, and robust native trees, shrub and hedgerow planting that is sensitive to the character of the receiving landscape. We look to enhance and retain wherever possible the green infrastructure of the site and immediate setting.
LEISURE
We look to create immersive, vibrant outdoor spaces that enhance guest experiences and support well-being. Thoughtfully designed landscapes transform parks, and recreational facilities into inviting, sustainable environments that encourage relaxation, exploration, and connection with nature. By blending aesthetics with functionality, landscape architecture through create design we aim to add lasting value, creating memorable destinations that captivate visitors and keep them coming back.
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At Aspect, our planning team is dedicated to providing professional and insightful knowledge to our clients. We work closely with them, attending site visits and meetings, and encouraging them to express their opinions. With the help of our highly qualified landscape architects, we are able to take a site from just a thought to obtaining planning permission.
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We offer expert witness services for planning appeals, hearings, and public inquiries. Our team provides high-quality Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) and full landscape design services from initial concept to detail. We also conduct feasibility and health check analysis of a site's capacity for development and prepare Environmental Statements & Landscape and Visual Chapter for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA).