Our aims are to fulfil the potential of the project, whilst keeping the interests of our clients and the environment at the heart of the process. Our skills are to ensure we implement and direct schemes in a way that cuts through 'red tape' to achieve the optimum economic, environmental and social potential of a site. ACLA Ltd has over 25 years experience in landscape architecture, landscape planning and environmental design.
We have designed & managed a wide range of projects including landscape and visual impact assessments; master planning; commercial landscapes; housing developments; detailed hard and soft landscape designs; contract preparation & management and garden designs. We are based near Marlborough in Wiltshire and can provide a flexible and comprehensive professional service throughout the UK.
ACLA ltd approaches each project on an inclusive and individual basis drawing on years of experience with landscape design, environmental planning and landscape related planning issues.
We have designed & managed a wide range of projects including landscape and visual impact assessments; master planning; commercial landscapes; housing developments; detailed hard and soft landscape designs; contract preparation & management and garden designs. We are based near Marlborough in Wiltshire and can provide a flexible and comprehensive professional service throughout the UK.
ACLA ltd approaches each project on an inclusive and individual basis drawing on years of experience with landscape design, environmental planning and landscape related planning issues.
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Michael has many years of experience on major environmental projects in the UK and abroad and also has also run a successful landscape design practice in Oxfordshire for over 30 years.
ACLA works closely with Branch Landscape Associates (BLA) and for over 18 years.
BLA specialise in prestige garden design & professional horticultural and arboricultural advice for developers and private clients.
ACLA offers a high quality professional landscape design service at much lower rates than other larger companies because we have the experience but not the overheads.
ACLA works closely with Branch Landscape Associates (BLA) and for over 18 years.
BLA specialise in prestige garden design & professional horticultural and arboricultural advice for developers and private clients.
ACLA offers a high quality professional landscape design service at much lower rates than other larger companies because we have the experience but not the overheads.
ACLA was commissioned by Donnington New Homes to prepare an LVIA for up to 75 new houses on land just beyond the northern settlement boundary of Newbury, Berkshire.
We asseses the visual impacts on the wider landscape as minimal.
The highest visual impact were assesed at close distance form the site boundary.
We also considered it important to retain the mature vegetation along a rural land on the western site boundary and elswhere to reduce the impacts on the local landscape character.
As well as retaining all the mature vegetation around the site, we proposed wide green buffer strips to the site boundaries which included areas of woodland blocks and wildflower meadows to reduce the visual and character impacts on the local rural landscape and provide wildlife habitats and an attractive low-key setting to the development.
We asseses the visual impacts on the wider landscape as minimal.
The highest visual impact were assesed at close distance form the site boundary.
We also considered it important to retain the mature vegetation along a rural land on the western site boundary and elswhere to reduce the impacts on the local landscape character.
As well as retaining all the mature vegetation around the site, we proposed wide green buffer strips to the site boundaries which included areas of woodland blocks and wildflower meadows to reduce the visual and character impacts on the local rural landscape and provide wildlife habitats and an attractive low-key setting to the development.
ACLA prepared a report as part of an EIA for a large scale solar farm near Andover in Hampshire on behalf of CEC ltd Truro, in 2011.
We concluded that the proposals did not constitute a significant landscape or visual impact.
We have also prepared number of other LVIAs for solar farms in 2013 in Cornwall, Wiltshire & Staffordshire which have either received planning permission or are currently at the planning stage.
In 2016 we prepared a chapter for an EIA for a solar farm of behalf of the Association of British Ports at Barry, Wales.
We concluded that the proposals did not constitute a significant landscape or visual impact.
We have also prepared number of other LVIAs for solar farms in 2013 in Cornwall, Wiltshire & Staffordshire which have either received planning permission or are currently at the planning stage.
In 2016 we prepared a chapter for an EIA for a solar farm of behalf of the Association of British Ports at Barry, Wales.
ACLA has designed and submitted landscape plans for numerous housing developments across the UK.
These range in scale from major urban extensions to Milton Keynes down to individual urban developments on back garden plots.
Consideration given to the wider landscape is a requirement for planning approval and often involves the preparation of detailed planting plans, hard landscape plans, construction details and management plans/reports.
The management plan is often a requirement as part of the planning approval and commits the applicant to a minimum period of time to maintain the landscape on a development site until established.
These range in scale from major urban extensions to Milton Keynes down to individual urban developments on back garden plots.
Consideration given to the wider landscape is a requirement for planning approval and often involves the preparation of detailed planting plans, hard landscape plans, construction details and management plans/reports.
The management plan is often a requirement as part of the planning approval and commits the applicant to a minimum period of time to maintain the landscape on a development site until established.
ACLA was commissioned to prepared landscape proposals for a planning application for a state of the art business park in a rural location on the outskirts of the village of Chilcomb, Hampshire.
Because the site is in a visually sensitive rural location it was important to mitigate views to the proposed units to gain planning approval.
The existing boundary was reinforced with additional native planting and a green roof was proposed to integrate the development into its surroundings.
We also designed high quality communal/recreational outdoor areas together with ornamental and wildlife ponds to create and enhance existing habitats.
Because the site is in a visually sensitive rural location it was important to mitigate views to the proposed units to gain planning approval.
The existing boundary was reinforced with additional native planting and a green roof was proposed to integrate the development into its surroundings.
We also designed high quality communal/recreational outdoor areas together with ornamental and wildlife ponds to create and enhance existing habitats.
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