Helping to navigate the planning system with pragmatic landscape advice - enabling you to accommodate landscape and visual sensitivities early in the design process by providing the appropriate mitigation.
This achieves a truly landscape led scheme and in turn allows for a smoother planning process.
We are pragmatic and commercially minded landscape consultants who recognise the pressure and need for development.
As such we provide our clients with specialist bespoke advice to ensure development proposals accommodate site specific landscape sensitivities and provide appropriate mitigation where necessary to enable a justifiable and s
We are pragmatic and commercially minded landscape consultants who recognise the pressure and need for development.
As such we provide our clients with specialist bespoke advice to ensure development proposals accommodate site specific landscape sensitivities and provide appropriate mitigation where necessary to enable a justifiable and supportable scheme.
We are fully qualified Landscape Architects / Landscape Planners and Chartered Members of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).
We are a landscape consultancy specialising in the preparation of LVA’s, LVIA’s, feasibility studies and Green Belt reviews for small to large scale strategic sites.
We have specific expertise in the preparation of landscape assessments within or close to designated or sensitive landscapes including National Landscapes / Areas of Outstand
We are a landscape consultancy specialising in the preparation of LVA’s, LVIA’s, feasibility studies and Green Belt reviews for small to large scale strategic sites.
We have specific expertise in the preparation of landscape assessments within or close to designated or sensitive landscapes including National Landscapes / Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and National Parks.
We also regularly provide specialist landscape and visual evidence acting as expert witness at planning appeals.
We have almost two decades experience in landscape planning and providing landscape consultancy advice to clients covering a range of landscape architectural and landscape planning services.
We offer a range of services to support development sites and planning applications and are willing to support the scheme through to appeal should it be required.
Whether its initial advice as part of site feasibility studies or a full landscape and visual impact assessment to support a planning application, we have extensive experience providing clients with robust high quality landscape planning advice.
Being involved at the early stages of the development helps to ensure the evolvement of a layou
Whether its initial advice as part of site feasibility studies or a full landscape and visual impact assessment to support a planning application, we have extensive experience providing clients with robust high quality landscape planning advice.
Being involved at the early stages of the development helps to ensure the evolvement of a layout addresses any landscape sensitivities and minimises landscape effects, which in turn typically means a smoother planning process.
We offer a range of landscape planning services that can be tailored to the specific requirements or budget of a project.
Core landscape planning services offered include:
Landscape design forms an inherent part of the landscape planning process. Ensuring that development proposals reduce or minimise landscape effects and enable the scheme to be successfully integrated within the landscape is key.
Early involvement in design development and the preparation of landscape strategies or green infrastructure plan
Landscape design forms an inherent part of the landscape planning process. Ensuring that development proposals reduce or minimise landscape effects and enable the scheme to be successfully integrated within the landscape is key.
Early involvement in design development and the preparation of landscape strategies or green infrastructure plans help the scheme to be seen positively throughout the planning stages. Landscape design is also critical in demonstrating the broad range of benefits of new development proposals including landscape and ecological enhancements and biodiversity net gain (BNG).
We offer services ranging from initial concept and strategic landscape design to support outline planning applications, down to fully detailed hard and soft technical landscape drawings for detailed applications, reserved matters applications or discharge of planning conditions.
Core landscape design services offered include:
We provide robust landscape advice ensuring it is supportable at appeal should it need to be. This includes the preparation of specialist, objective evidence in the context of character and appearance and the potential effects of a development on the visual environment.
We have experience preparing specialist landscape and visual evidence
We provide robust landscape advice ensuring it is supportable at appeal should it need to be. This includes the preparation of specialist, objective evidence in the context of character and appearance and the potential effects of a development on the visual environment.
We have experience preparing specialist landscape and visual evidence and have acted as expert witness on numerous planning appeals for both Public Inquiries and Hearings working with some of the UK’s top planning barristers.
Core expert witness services offered include:
We have experience of providing landscape consultancy advice and services across a broad range of sectors including the residential, retail, commercial, industrial / logistics, healthcare, leisure and renewable sectors.
This experience ranges from initial feasibility advice to support site allocation for residential and mixed use developments, through to LVIA and ES Chapters on planning applications for large scale commercial, industrial and distribution developments or solar farms, down to the detailed landscape design for care home schemes or public realm and public open spaces.
Our core experience is working with some of the UK’s best known house builders and strategic land promoters. We have a sound understanding of the residential scheme requirements and have prepared all ranges of landscape planning and landscape design input for both outline and detailed applications as well as reserved matters and planning
Our core experience is working with some of the UK’s best known house builders and strategic land promoters. We have a sound understanding of the residential scheme requirements and have prepared all ranges of landscape planning and landscape design input for both outline and detailed applications as well as reserved matters and planning condition submissions. We also have experience at planning appeal for residential and mixed use schemes.
We have extensive experience preparing a variety of landscape assessments for developments within the renewables sector. We regularly prepare LVIA’s and Landscape Strategy Plans to support applications for large scale solar photovoltaic (PV) proposals, wind turbines and battery energy storage system (BESS) schemes. We also have experience
We have extensive experience preparing a variety of landscape assessments for developments within the renewables sector. We regularly prepare LVIA’s and Landscape Strategy Plans to support applications for large scale solar photovoltaic (PV) proposals, wind turbines and battery energy storage system (BESS) schemes. We also have experience with the preparation of detailed planting plans and landscape management plans often required to discharge planning conditions.
We have an excellent understanding of the retail industry and new retail development needs and have experience preparing landscape information for numerous planning applications for some of the UK’s biggest retailers. This has included landscape assessments, landscape strategies and detailed technical plans to discharge conditions.
We have experience in providing advice to clients on larger scale commercial, industrial and distribution development proposals and preparing thorough landscape and visual impact assessments and landscape strategies to support planning applications. Due to the larger scale nature of these schemes, a robust landscape assessment and mitigat
We have experience in providing advice to clients on larger scale commercial, industrial and distribution development proposals and preparing thorough landscape and visual impact assessments and landscape strategies to support planning applications. Due to the larger scale nature of these schemes, a robust landscape assessment and mitigation strategy is necessary to help ensure the landscape and visual effects are minimised.
We have experience advising a number of clients within the healthcare and education industries including standalone applications for assisted living and care home developments, proposals for primary schools and mixed use schemes that include new doctor’s surgeries.
We have experience preparing landscape information for a variety of schemes within the recreation, sport and leisure sector such as golf courses, stadiums and holiday parks. We also have extensive knowledge and experience working up the landscape design information and drawings for new public open spaces, pocket parks, podium courtyards,
We have experience preparing landscape information for a variety of schemes within the recreation, sport and leisure sector such as golf courses, stadiums and holiday parks. We also have extensive knowledge and experience working up the landscape design information and drawings for new public open spaces, pocket parks, podium courtyards, children’s play spaces, and suitable alternative natural greenspaces (SANG).
Jenk Landscape Design + Planning Ltd was established in 2024 and is led by Chris Jenkinson. Chris is a seasoned Chartered Landscape Architect with more than 19 years of expertise in the landscape planning sector.
Chris has experience of leading and managing a team of consultants, whilst also heading up a wide range of strategic landscape planning projects. He has a keen eye for detail and ensures the work he prepares is high quality, robust and defendable.
Chris is a specialist in the preparation of Landscape & Visual Appraisals (LVA), Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA), Feasibility Studies and Green Belt Reviews for small to large scale strategic sites.
He regularly provides specialist landscape and visual evidence and has acted as expert witness on numerous planning appeals for both Public Inquiries and Hearings.
Chris is also highly accomplished in landscape design, producing conceptual landscape designs, high level green infrastructure plans or landscape strategies as well as fully detailed hard and soft drawings for tender.
We would love to hear from you to see how we can assist on your project or planning application.
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