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Landscape decisions made early have the biggest impact on planning risk, programme, cost and long-term quality. Landscape Ally provides focused, senior-led input at pre-app and early design stages, helping teams test options quickly, shape a clear landscape strategy and move forward with confidence.

Use this service when you need to:

• Sense-check feasibility and constraints early

• Explore layout options and landscape capacity before layouts are fixed

• Build a credible green infrastructure and open space strategy

• Integrate requirements such as biodiversity and urban greening into the design logic

Depending on the stage and team set-up, outputs often include:

• Early constraints/opportunities plan (access & movement, levels, water, ecology, public realm interfaces, context analysis)

• Concept options and optioneering mark-ups

• Landscape/GI strategy diagrams and narrative for design reports

• Access, public realm and open space principles

• Early SuDS/blue-green infrastructure principles

• Input to pre-app packs and stakeholder discussions

We plug in where you need us. A single design review, a short optioneering workshop or ongoing support across multiple live projects. This service is commonly delivered through our flexible Support Plans, so you can access strategic input without constant scope renegotiation.

Planning packages require clarity and coordination. We help teams produce robust landscape information for planning submissions and post-consent condition discharge efficiently, and with an eye on what planning officers and consultees actually need to see.

Use this service when you need to:

• Strengthen a planning submission with clear landscape proposals

• Discharge landscape-related planning conditions without spiralling time and fees

• Turn concept intent into a coherent set of drawings and written information

• Coordinate landscape with architecture, drainage, highways and ecology

Typical outputs can include:

• Hard landscape plans and materials strategy

• Planting plans and schedules

• Landscape management plans (LMPs or LEMPs)

• Public realm and adoptable interface details

• Responses to planning comments and minor revisions support

Condition discharge is often treated as admin, but it’s also where design quality can quietly slip. Our focus is to keep the package:

• Consistent with the approved intent

• Buildable and procurement-friendly

• Coordinated across disciplines, so it doesn’t unravel later

This can be delivered as a focused package or through Support Plans for flexible drawdown across multiple conditions or projects.

This is where good landscape design becomes buildable reality. We support detailed design, technical coordination and tender/construction information, helping teams resolve levels, interfaces, materials and the practical details that make schemes durable, safe and deliverable.

Use this service when you need to:

• Develop landscape design from concept into a buildable package

• Resolve complex interfaces (thresholds, furniture, stairs & ramps, walls, surfaces & edges)

• Coordinate levels and materials to avoid late-stage conflicts

• Prepare tender-ready information and respond to contractor queries

• Maintain design intent through delivery support and inspections

Often includes:

• Detailed hard landscape design (key plans, levels, setting-out)

• Typical and key details (edges, steps/ramps, walls, planters, SuDS features)

• Specifications & schedules to support pricing and procurement

• BIM coordination support where the project team uses BIM workflows

• Tender queries and technical clarifications

• Construction-stage support and site reviews

This service suits teams who need reliable technical support without bringing in a full-time hire. We often deliver it through Support Plans so technical input can be pulled in at the moments it matters.