As a result of our long association with the minerals industry, the practice has considerable experience in all aspects of the Environmental Impact Assessment process. Our services include initial project planning, planning authority liaison, comparative site appraisals, consultation with statutory consultees and non-governmental organisations and preliminary assessment of proposals.
We can follow up with full landscape and visual assessments, landscape masterplan design, visualisations of proposals and the submission of planning applications. We coordinate and publish Environmental Statements and we also provide public inquiry expert witness services in landscape planning and design. Our EIA commissions range from proposals to develop new quarry sites and industrial infrastructure to the extension of a university campus and developments for new housing in the countryside.
The practice is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.
Padeswood Cement Works case study In 1999, we carried out the landscape and visual impact assessment of a proposal for a new vertical kiln including visualisations of the new tower using photomontage: this technique was used to show different surface treatments for the kiln tower. From this preliminary assessment the final surface treatment was selected and used in the planning application. The proposal received planning permission from the local authority and was then called in for public inquiry by the Welsh Assembly. The inspector reported that the photomontage evidence was a fair representation of the proposal and recommended approval of the application. |
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