Markets & Expertise / Climate Change & Environment / Rural Environment

LDA Design has extensive experience of planning, change management and conservation in all types of rural landscape. We have brought together our development and environment experience to offer a unique service focussed on positive rural planning.
We help small rural communities grow and provide affordable housing for local families and space for rural businesses. We also help farmers and landowners plan and manage their land more sustainably, including enhancing provision for public access, local landscape character and habitat connectivity. Our core skills in landscape character, ecology, historic environments, GI and climate change mean that we see the bigger picture. This enables us to develop strategies that conserve and enhance sense of place while delivering new development and more sustainable management of rural areas.
Key Contacts

Ian is a multi-award winning landscape architect and archaeologist with specialist expertise in the contextual design of large and complex development projects in sensitive locations and assessment, planning and strategy making at the strategic scale.
He has experience of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment, Green Infrastructure planning and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment and combines technical rigour with creativity and has the skills needed to communicate complex ideas in a simple and engaging way.

Fresh Aire

An Approach to Seascape Character Assessment

Strategic Environmental & Economic Investment Plan For Oxfordshire

Forest Of Dean Landscape Supplementary Planning Document

Exeter and East Devon Green Infrastructure Strategy

Setting Study Of Denny Abbey Listed Building & Scheduled Monument

Delivering Adaptation through Planning & Infrastructure Investment

Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

Climate Change Risk & Adaptation Study For Central Bedfordshire

Masterplan for the Great Fen: Re-Imagining a Fenland Landscape

Dorset Coast Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment

Cotswolds AONB Landscape Character Assessment & Landscape Strategy

Environmental Infrastructure Investment for North East Lincolnshire

Climate Change Vision and Action Plan for the Lower Ouse Valley

Leeds City Region Green Infrastructure Strategy
