News
April 2007
CDM regulations shake-up
05th Apr 2007The recent changes to the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations (1994) will have significant impact on landscape professionals
Climate and communities - future focus for National Park
17th Apr 2007Action on climate-change, the disadvantaged and local communities are among key targets in a new five-year plan just launched by the Peak District National Park Authority. The new National Park Management Plan is an over-arching strategy document drawn up by the Authority to adapt to modern challenges in a changing world. With the help of local residents, councils and interest-groups over an 18-month consultation period, 86 targets for action were set out to be achieved by 2011.
Protecting historic landscapes
17th Apr 2007Highways Agency and English Heritage publish joint guidance to assess impact of roads on historic landscapes.
Saving the planet through landscape architecture
18th Apr 2007This is the text of a speech given by Landscape Institute Director General Marion Bowman at the External Works exhibition in Birmingham on 17 April.
AWARD FOR LANDSCAPE - THE INSTITUTE'S JOURNAL
26th Apr 2007The Landscape Institute's monthly Journal, Landscape, has won a CiB Award of Excellence for the cover of the October 2006 issue.