ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Project: Guidance on Coastal Defence Design and Impact Assessment
Client: Countryside Council for Wales
Preparation of guidance setting out an approved method for assessing landscape and visual impacts of proposed coastal defence, and method for mitigating adverse impacts, 2001.

Project: Landscape Impacts of Coastal Defences
Client: Countryside Council for Wales
Assessment of the landscape and visual impacts of coastal defences in Wales.

The ECUS Landscape team have recently prepared a number of other landscape and visual impact assessments which are still in the planning system, and therefore cannot be named. These include mineral extraction and commercial developments.

Project: Parson Cross Park, Sheffield
Client: Sheffield City Council
Regeneration Masterplan for large public park, community consultation, costing. Detailed design of selected areas.

Project: Four Greens, Sheffield
Client: Longley Organised Community Association Limited
Regeneration Masterplan for four linked greens within large Council housing estate, community consultation.

Project: The Lookout, Gainsborough
Client: Gainsborough Regeneration
Landscape and engineering design of riverside public space and lookout feature, working with artist.

Project: In-Patient Learning Disability Services Accommodation, Larbert, Scotland
Client: Forth Valley Primary Care NHS Trust
Landscape design and supervision of construction of grounds for new residential facility.

Project: Housing Developments, Sheffield
Client: Bloor Homes
Ecological and tree surveys, landscape design, site conservation, liaison with Planning Authority, supervision of works.

LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT

Project: Seascape Character Assessment
Client: Countryside Council for Wales
Development of methodology for assessing character of seascapes to help guide coastal and offshore development.

Project: York Landscape Appraisal
Client: City of York Council
Landscape character assessment of York Green Belt. Defining the purposes of the York Green Belt to aid the Local Plan Review.

Project: Reclamation of Limestone Quarries by Landform Simulation
Client: Department for the Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Landform simulation is the construction by restoration blasting of varied slope sequences on disused quarry faces to produce landform/vegetation assemblages similar to those on natural limestone dales.