Green Infrastructure (GI) is: ‘A network of multi-functional green space, urban and rural, which is capable of delivering a wide range of environmental and quality of life benefits for local communities’ (NPPF 2018).
HDA utilises it’s multi-disciplinary approach to devise GI strategies to benefit people and nature.
project examples
GROVE
The Monks Farm site is now part of a Strategic Housing Site within the Council’s Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement. HDA provided landscape, ecology and arboricultural support both for the allocation submission and for the outline planning application that followed. Our combined influence led to the development of a Green Infrastructure Strategy for the …
CRANBROOK GI AND SANG
HDA produced a Green Infrastructure (GI) and Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) strategy for the expansion area of Cranbrook, which conformed to national and local policy and followed the principles set out within the ‘Green Infrastructure Study for the Exeter Area and East Devon New Growth Point’. Landscape analysis was undertaken for the plan area, …
HIGH LEIGH
A residential led mixed use development for approximately 500 homes to the west of Hoddesdon. The project constituted a major development within the Green Belt. HDA has been involved with this project from the outset, providing initial baseline information and identifying landscape constraints and opportunities, which were used to inform the masterplan approach and layout. …
WORTHING LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGY STUDY
As part of a series of studies to inform the Local Development Framework process, Worthing Borough Council commissioned HDA to assess the physical and environmental constraints on development in the Borough with a view to determine the landscape capacity of greenfield sites to accommodate future development. The assessment required detailed analysis of landscape structure and …