We played a lead role on this speculative project, providing landscape, green infrastructure and design coordination expertise throughout the planning process. Our scope included landscape and visual impact assessment, preparation of the application parameter drawings, and the development of the site-wide landscape and green infrastructure strategies. Define also brought together and authored the project’s Design & Access Statement, ensuring a clear and cohesive narrative underpinned the submission.

Working closely with the project’s architects, planners, engineers, ecologists and heritage consultants, we focused on the protection of valued site features and the careful integration of proposed buildings into their landscape context. Augmented reality software was used to iteratively test building heights, earthworks and layout options, helping to ensure the proposals respected the setting of the Cannock Chase National Landscape and sensitive views to and from nearby listed heritage assets.