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Three LDA Design projects feature on this year’s Planning Awards shortlist.

In the Architects’ Journal, journalist Hattie Hartman posed this important question: should all masterplans be landscape-led? We believe the answer is yes. Here’s why.

In the UK we often seem to have low expectations of new infrastructure. LDA Design’s Alister Kratt asks why. Is it a fear of change and the unknown? Or is it that we are not seeing national infrastructure through a wide enough lens, and thinking about positive local outcomes and properly considering design quality: are we just Read more

LDA Design Board Director, Bernie Foulkes, will take part in Westminster Higher Education Forum’s discussion on the priorities for the future development of university estates. The event will explore the key themes of competition, local growth and regeneration, and future proofing. Bernie will discuss how universities can harness the power of the public realm to Read more

Does anyone really understand how forests will respond to the rise in carbon dioxide? At the moment, for example, 425 different insects call oak trees ‘home’; how many will survive increased levels of CO2? New data-driven insight will come from a ground-breaking study recently featured on the BBC’s The One Show. LDA Design helped gain Read more

Highland councillors have approved plans for a new GFG Alliance alloy car wheel factory, near Fort William in Scotland. Production of up to two million wheels a year could begin as early as 2020, creating up to 400 direct new jobs. The design proposal by creative consultants Keppie and LDA Design is part of a Read more

LDA Design has been appointed to help deliver a ‘Big Town Plan’ for Shrewsbury, one of England’s finest county towns.