HDA prides itself on it’s commitment to producing ecologically sound designs that increase biodiversity and habitat connectivity.
We combine our in-house landscape, ecology and arboriculture expertise to promote habitat improvements that respond to site specific, local and regional conditions.
This ethos is integrated into all of our design work and are involved in designs for Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) and quarry restoration schemes, where a focus on habitat creation and enhancement is critical.
project examples
AYLESBURY WATERSIDE THEATRE
HDA was part of the design team which delivered the award-winning Waterside Theatre scheme on a regeneration site in the centre of Aylesbury. Our involvement in this project included ecology surveys, townscape assessment and landscape design. HDA’s scheme saw the removal of canalised sections of the brook and the re-introduction of natural banks together with …
EDENBROOK COUNTRY PARK
HDA ecologists and landscape architects led the design of a 40ha ‘Super SANG’ at Edenbrook, Fleet in Hampshire. The SANG was created to off-set the adverse effects of recreational pressure arising from new housing development on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (SPA). The SANG provides a variety of wetlands, flood meadows and open …
ROGATE WOODLAND
HDA prepared woodland restoration proposals for a woodland estate in West Sussex, as part of a management plan which accompanied the successful planning application for a sustainable home in the South Downs National Park. The plan aims to increase native broadleaf cover across the estate, and create a mixed age structure with glades and rides. …
WHITWELL QUARRY
HDA’s involvement in the landscape and visual assessment of the development of this large quarry (204 hectares) in Derbyshire has been ongoing since the 1990s. The high purity dolomitic limestone extracted at the quarry (operated by Tarmac) is burnt in the kilns of the adjoined lime processing plant (operated by Lhoist) for use in refractory …