Open Spaces was commissioned to carry out an LVIA on this 12 hectare site at Newquay in Cornwall to inform a planning application and mitigation design for a residential development of some 320 units and associated infrastructure. The site, comprising improved and semi-improved grassland with mature native hedgerows and bounded by Newquay’s existing urban fringe, …
Housham Tye Lake and earth bunds
With outline consent already granted, Open Spaces has successfully discharged the planning conditions for this 0.5 hectare lake on residential estate land. Services included sketch and detailed design proposals, planting design and setting out prior to construction with the final scheme incorporating sculpted earth bunds, waterside, wildlife screen planting enhancement and the successful application for …
Solar Farm, Axminster, Devon
Open Spaces were appointed as Landscape and Tree Consultants to this Solar Farm project near Axminster in Devon, tasked with discharging the tree and landscape related planning conditions. The 31 acre site located adjacent to the B3165 is now home to some 18,000 ground mounted solar pv arrays, substation and associated infrastructure (…and sheep). …
LVIA Tavistock, Devon
Tasked initially with producing a LVIA for this proposed development of some 110 residential units, public open spaces, allotments and associated landscape infrastructure on the northern fringe of Tavistock between Dartmoor National Park and the World Heritage site including the Tower Valley, services also included outline landscape design encompassing the enhancement of ecological values, screening …
Farningham Mill, Kent
Lying within a Conservation Area (CA) and with 18th century buildings and watermill present on site, Open Spaces were appointed to this sensitive redevelopment project with services encompassing landscape master planning and tree consultancy. The site is home to a variety of existing buildings to be renovated and restored, including three Grade II* listed buildings, …