HDA’s urban design team is experienced at preparing viability, vision and delivery documents to promote development schemes through the local planning process.
Concept masterplans and vision documents highlight a sites unique potential, development opportunities and capacity. Our landscape-led approach can help demonstrate how a site would sit within the landscape, wider benefits and how potential impacts can be offset.
We are able to provide an assessment of a sites potential and establish concept masterplan options to establish enough certainty to inform local plan and site allocations decisions.
project examples
BEARS CROFT
On behalf of Marchfield, HDA prepared concept masterplan proposals to support the site’s allocation through the Local Plan process; followed by Illustrative masterplan proposals, parameters plans and Design and Access Statement for outline planning. The mixed-use scheme accommodates 750 dwellings; community uses including a primary; retail, office and light industrial employment; and sports pitches. The …
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. …