This high specification office development lies in a prominent location at the edge of the established Basing View business district.
The passive energy 7 storey development includes communal conference facilities, gym, café and terraced roof gardens with significant vertical landscape treatment around the basement parking zone.
DA worked with Fibonacci Architects and Woolf Bond Planning for Fishron Properties Ltd.
This 2 unit development for a private client has a restricted driveway access amongst a mature street tree screen.
DA provide detailed landscape and tree reports to support the successful application to Reigate & Banstead BC. These included detailed tree root protection for the new services connections within the tree management works.
Set in a mature residential area with prominent street trees this ‘arts and crafts’ style development respects the suburban fabric while adding contemporary design that enriches the local landscape character.
DA provided landscape and bio-diversity enhancement while assisting Planning Resolution and Flower Michelin architects for the detailed application. The scheme has now been built out and occupied.
National Park Authorities correctly require the design of new development to fully consider the existing valued context.
The proposed development scale, architectural siting, form and finishes should fully respect and enhance the immediate landscape setting. Settlement edge locations below panoramic public viewpoints face greater scrutiny because of their prominence.
Full consideration of the dark skies planning policy and other special constraints were key to the replacement dwelling design at Poynings within the SDNP. DA provided the critical landscape assessment report supporting Koru Architects and Prospective Planning.
DA is working on many sensitive planning sites across southern UK where a special case must be made for successful outcomes.
DA undertook the supporting tree and landscape report for a replacement dwelling on the Kent/ Sussex borders.
Our findings and the sloping wooded valley site allowed BWP Architects to create a split-level plan with home offices that exploits the afternoon sunlight while retaining and managing the longer-term trees and boundary enclosure.
We have worked with BWP on a number of projects including recently a subterranean garage scheme built at Selborne within the SDNP/ Village Conservation Area.
In a country park Thames Valley setting near Marlow, DA is negotiating the conversion of waste ground near a water-ski club for a shared parking facility.
While local businesses will utilise the parking during the working day, public access will ensure occupancy at weekends for the local leisure amenities including lakeside green space.
The submission to Wycombe DC includes a detailed metric ecological assessment to comply with the latest government guidance together with a full landscape enhancement scheme including appropriate security lighting. The submission was co-ordinated by Bell Cornwell Planning.
Strategic landscape planning advice is used to engage positively with planning authorities during the Local Plan land allocation process. DA is providing landscape and ecological advice to Denton Homes Plc for a village extension at Scaynes Hill identifying the potential habitat and landscape constraints.
Our pre-application surveys will inform the development planning programme. Landscape parameter plans are used to illustrate the key landscape framework and guide the development layout design. A landscape and ecological management plan is in progress with an LVIA report to follow once a provisional scheme has been agreed with the LPA.
DA was a member of the successful design team led by Pro-Vision Planning at Oxlease Gardens, Romsey that in 2013 gained approval for a 58 unit residential development on part of the 72 ha overall Test Valley site.
The landowner then gifted the adjacent wetland to TVBC for Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve.
The completed housing scheme is now built within a strong landscape framework. This includes the Romsey Barge Canal SSSI enhanced boundary margin and the mature native woodland canopy with linking green corridor.
Johnson Matthey, the chemicals giant, require a £6m Innovations Centre at their Oxfordshire base in the Chilterns AONB.
DA working with Vail Williams Planning provided the pre-application landscape and ecological surveys and reports for the submission to SODC. These have now informed the architectural design brief for the new centre.
The new statement building will be expected to create a high quality visitor experience and target BREAAM outstanding status.
Our latest scheme for T A Fisher has been the detailed application for 25 units at Kennylands Road.
The proposal on a west facing, edge of settlement site includes both affordable and market housing with LAP play facilities. Boundary treatment was carefully considered reinforcing existing shelterbelts, respecting neighbouring privacy while enhancing distant views in the AONB context.
DA also provided a long term landscape management plan to support the detailed application. Pro-Vision Planning co-ordinated the submission to SODC.
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