About this branch
The East of East of England Branch of the Landscape Institute represents members of the Landscape Institute at a local level. The branch seeks to bring together all those concerned with guiding the future development of the East of East of England landscape. It provides a professional forum for exchanging ideas and information and also for evaluating policy.
Landscape Advice in East of England
Members of the Landscape Institute provide a broad range of services and work at many different levels from strategic studies and plans for extensive tracts of countryside to city centre redevelopment schemes to the design of small private gardens.
As landscape consultants they can advise on the renovation of historic landscapes, derelict land reclamation, and offer guidance on sources of grant aid. In every case the work is based on a thorough site appraisal. This increases the long term flexibility and viability of a landscape and often also provides a range of site-specific solutions.
Landscape advice is particularly important in the development process; at strategic and local plan levels, for environmental assessment of large scale developments and for the submission and approval of landscape schemes upon which planning permissions are so often conditional.
Landscape consultants also prepare and present evidence at public enquiries.
Where developments are likely to have an environmental impact, early contact with a landscape professional is recommended to provide general guidance both on the project itself and on further sources of information and advice.
This can be obtained from the registered practices and from members of the Landscape Institute working as sole practitioners, as employees of multi-disciplinary consultancies or as officers of District or County Councils within the region.