LDA Design’s work has been recognised at this year’s Landscape Institute Awards. With a win, a highly commended and a commended, LDA Design was the only consultancy recognised for work on three separate projects at this annual event, designed to showcase the best landscape design across the UK:

• Landscape Policy – winner of this category for work on the Leeds City Region’s green infrastructure strategy, which contains a number of investment programmes highlighting the ways in which green infrastructure can deliver a wealth of economic, social and environmental benefits.

• Strategic Landscape Planning – commended for a landscape and seascape character assessment of the Dorset coast providing a robust evidence base for policy and planning.

• Heritage and Conservation – highly commended for work on the Boundary Gardens at Arnold Circus on the Boundary Estate restoring neglected gardens and bandstand in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, making them a community focus again.

Hosted by Tim Smit KBE, Chief Executive and co-founder of the Eden Project, the Landscape Institute Awards were set up to encourage and recognise outstanding examples of work by the landscape profession. The awards aim to bring greater awareness of the best contributions from Landscape Institute members in creating an improved environment..

Neil Mattinson, senior partner of LDA Design said: “These awards not only recognise the importance of good landscape planning and design to people and places across the UK, but are also a testament to the team’s hard work on a range of disciplines – from strategic green space planning and assessment to sensitive historical restoration.”

LDA Design also sponsored one of the four Future Vision Awards, an awards scheme for students that aims to find ideas for making villages, towns and cities better places to live. The Open Spaces Award was won by University of Sheffield student Jotaro Tokunaga for his work on transforming neglected urban spaces into corridor parks. Jotaro will receive a four-week work placement with LDA Design.

Other winners were: Jack Champs, University of Brighton (Future Buildings Award), John Killock, University of Westminster (Future Communities Award), and Gerrit Kaiser, Royal College of Art (Future Green Thinking Award).