The design of the urban and rural environment is a vital and integral part of HLP's work. Distinctive places are developed through a rigorous process of analysis and engagement with the public, users and stakeholders.
Attention to detail of hard and soft materials in response to context creates exterior spaces which function well in response to constraints and are safe and pleasant to use. In both urban and rural contexts HLP's approach promotes the quality of human experience as well as the enhancing of eco-systems through respect for local habitats.
Future management and maintenance is an essential part of any landscape scheme, helping to achieve quality green space for the long term, protect capital investments, and contribute towards sustainable communities. It forms an integral part of our thinking and overall design approach.
HLP’s landscape architects prepare comprehensive landscape and visual character appraisals to provide baseline information and guidance on the landscape and visual impacts of urban extensions and new urban fringe housing sites.
A loss of open space assessment underpins and informs design development where local open space provision may be effected.
HLP’s landscape architects take account of national planning guidance and local policies and prepare a full photographic survey record of local open space, sport and recreation facilities, to examine and assess potential impacts of the development proposals on a neighbourhood.
Current open space, sport and recreation is analysed according to quantitative, qualitative, distribution and access standards agreed with the local authority, informing proposals for compensatory provision where required.