Landscape Planning Conditions
At Concept Landscape Architects, we provide our clients with expert landscape planning & approvals services and a long-standing reputation for successfully securing landscape planning approvals across residential, commercial, and public realm projects.
We work closely with architects, developers, and homeowners to develop well-resolved landscape schemes that meet statutory planning requirements and local design policies. From concept through to detailed planning submissions, we prepare all the drawings, written statements, and technical specifications needed to gain approval from your local authority.
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Why Landscape Planning Matters
Well-designed outdoor spaces are now recognised as essential to the success of any development. From enhancing biodiversity and sustainability to supporting wellbeing and placemaking, external environments are scrutinised more than ever during planning submissions.
We tailor every design to the client’s brief, providing creative leadership alongside technical support.
Concept Design for Planning Applications
We produce early-stage, illustrative, or conceptual landscape designs to support:
- Full planning applications
- Pre-application submissions
- Outline planning or hybrid applications
This helps to demonstrate the design quality and overall strategy for the external environment.
An essential part of gaining support from planning officers and design review panels.
Our masterplanning approach includes:
- Site access and vehicular circulation
- Pedestrian flow, terraces, and courtyards
- Placemaking strategies and theming
- Integration with architecture and site context
- Input into the public realm and urban design
- Amenity space design and street furniture
- Material pallets and presentation startegies
Detailed Design for Reserved Matters & Planning Conditions
After outline or full planning is granted, many schemes are conditioned with specific requirements relating to the landscape.
We provide all the documents needed to discharge these conditions, including:
- Landscape General Arrangements
- Hard & Soft Landscape Plans
- Construction details and levels
- Landscape specifications and schedules
- Statements covering compliance with local policy
Hard Landscape Design & Accessibility.
We detail all external materials and structures, ensuring compliance with Building Regulations (Part M) and other access standards:
- Surfaces, paving, steps, ramps, and boundary treatments
- Retaining walls and level changes
- Vehicle parking, turning circles, visibility plays, and service areas
- Thresholds and access routes
- Ballustrades, and Part K – Protection from falling, collision and impact
Planting Design & Soft Landscape
Detailed Soft Landscape packages, our soft landscape services can include:
- Full planting plans and specifications
- Trees, hedging, ground cover and herbaceous planting
- Tree Pit Details and other planting details
- Wildflower meadows, green roofs and climbers
- Supporting biodiversity and net gain targets
- Collaboration with ecologists and arboriculturists
Maintenance & Management Plans
We provide the necessary information to ensure establishment protocols and ongoing success.
- Maintenance schedules and specifications
- Guidance on establishment and ongoing care
- Plans tailored to meet planning or developer needs
Urban Greening Factor (UGF)
Some authorities require compliance with Urban Greening Factor. We help:
- Design for high UGF scores
- Balance hard and soft elements
- Achieve policy compliance without compromising design
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS)
Many local authorities now demand sustainable drainage strategies:
- Permeable paving solutions
- Drainage layouts and attenuation zones
- Integration with green roofs and planting
Trees & Arboricultural Planning
We can help and advise on:
- Tree protection (including Tree Preservation Orders)
- Tree removal, replacement and retention strategies
- Trees in Conservation Areas and Green Belt sites
- Coordination with arboricultural surveys and reports
Planning Bodies & Stakeholder Coordination
We regularly liaise with:
- Local authorities and planning officers
- Green Belt, AONB, and other policy-sensitive areas
- Conservation bodies such as the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
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