To meet the demand for homes and affordable housing many new communities need to be created in the coming years. New communities will need to accommodate the new technologies and ways of living demanded by climate change and the low carbon economy. What this means in practice is often not yet clear and so places must be future-proofed, flexible and resilient. We recognise that change can be controversial, especially when on the scale of a new community. Early and positive collaboration between developeers, planners, communities and stakeholders facilitated by LDA Design can achieve better and more profitable outcomes where the wider benefits are made clear.
These must be places in which people can develop a local identity, raise families, work and recreate. This is an extraordinarily complex task. Few genuine ‘new communities' have been built in the UK in the past 20 years and delivery of the agenda needs focused long term planning, exceptional masterplanning skills and the ability to translate proposals into reality.
LDA Design has evolved to meet all the requirements of the ‘new communities' agenda. We are involved in the strategic promotion of land for development and manage planning and environmental impact assessments as projects move toward planning consent. We have the creativity to develop a compelling picture of what a ‘new community' could be and the masterplanning skills to make that vision a reality. We pride ourselves on providing deliverable masterplans and, as we build schemes, we understand what it takes to bring them to fruition. Within new communities we design parks, nature reserves, public spaces and buildings. We are one of the few practices capable of planning, designing and delivering new places offering people the opportunity to build an identity and minimise use of natural resources.
