Hankinson Duckett Associates – HDA
landscape, masterplanning, ecology, arboriculture
During these challenging times, HDA is doing all it can to ensure safety of its employees, with all staff working and communicating efficiently from home.
We continue to provide all our usual landscape, ecology, arboricultural and heritage services, working in the best interests of our clients. Site survey work is currently possible in keeping with government requirements, whilst taking strict precautions. Get in touch if we can help with your projects.
HDA is delighted to announce that ownership of the practice has successfully transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust.
Whilst the company’s management structure remains largely unchanged, the Trust will own HDA on behalf of all employees, securing its future and giving employees a vested interest in the success of the practice.
Following recent approval of reserved matters for up to 200 dwellings at Hill Place near East Grinstead, HDA has now produced the landscape, ecology and arboriculture inputs into the construction tender package.
HDA is also working with the council to finalise the proposed Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG). The SANG will be a significant new open space on the edge of East Grinstead, providing new public views of the re-opened Grade II listed Imberhorne Viaduct along the Bluebell heritage railway.
Welcome to HDA and our new website. Prepared in-house, our new site aims to showcase the range of expertise we have to offer, and present the project experience we have built up throughout the UK over the last 20 years.
If you wish to speak to one of the team, feel free to give us a call on 01491 838175.
HDA has recently obtained tenders to create extensive woodland at a site near Enfield. HDA is now overseeing implementation of the contract, with planting due to start imminently. In the long term, the woodland will have a significant benefit to local wildlife.
The project is useful tender and contract experience for Melody, who is currently studying the Landscape Institute’s ‘Pathway to Chartership’, to become a chartered landscape architect.
Spring is around the corner, heralding the start of the new season for ecology surveys. Now is the time identify your ecological survey requirements in advance of the main survey period, which starts in March for the majority of protected species.
Contact our ecologists to discuss your likely requirements.
Working with ASP, HDA is delighted to have helped our client Knight Developments achieve a resolution to grant planning permission (subject to 106) for this scheme of 103 homes in Wealden District. The site is within the High Weald AONB and within 7km of the Ashdown Forest SPA/SAC. HDA’s inputs included landscape, ecology, masterplanning and expert witness.
