HDA firmly believes that, along with client aspirations, design work should respond to a site’s unique constraints and opportunities. Early project involvement allows us to provide landscape advice that can improve the overall site design; ensuring proposals have the best chance of obtaining planning consent. Site analysis underpins much of our landscape planning work and is critical for all landscape designs.
Following site analysis, concept designs are produced to help communicate our ideas to the client, design team and planners. Conceptual plans allow us to integrate feedback and ideas into a design prior to the production of detailed drawings. Our illustrative landscape plans are often hand drawn, making them accessible and attractive to a wide audience.
project examples
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, …
CRANBROOK MASTERPLAN
HDA was employed by Savills to provide landscape advice for its masterplan of an NHS Healthy New Town at Cranbrook in East Devon. HDA prepared an Landscape and Visual Assessment (LVA) to test the masterplan and Green Infrastructure, and a Green Infrastructure and SANG strategy for the site. East Devon District Council sought to significantly …
OFFENHAM ROAD
On behalf of Miller Homes, HDA prepared a site appraisal and capacity study to support the site’s allocation through the Local Plan process, followed by illustrative masterplan proposals, parameters plans and a Design and Access Statement for outline planning. The masterplan accommodates 500 new homes, a primary school and public open space near Evesham in …
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. …