Landscape planning
Mahere tūtohu whenua
Assessing, understanding, and managing the incorporation of landscape, natural character and visual values to secure outcomes that are environmentally, culturally, socially and economically beneficial for your policy, planning or development projects.
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Balancing competing land uses, while recognising and protecting important landscape values that reflect the significant cultural and natural resources of Aotearoa New Zealand is an increasingly complex undertaking. Understanding and incorporating landscape, natural character and visual values in policy planning or land development is what drives our landscape planning team. We assess opportunities and help resolve constraints and offer comprehensive advice on a landscape’s potential and capacity to accommodate change. This informs robust assessments which ultimately deliver successful development outcomes.
Our Landscape Planners are leaders in landscape, natural character and visual effects assessment and are in demand as expert witnesses at Hearings and before the Environment Court. We contribute to assessing, formulating and delivering strategies, policies and plans; often related to district or region-wide landscape management issues, on complex development proposals across Aotearoa’s landscapes and seascapes.
Working with ecologists, planners, cultural advisors, and digital technology experts, we deliver district and regional landscape studies, natural character studies and provide sound landscape policy advice. Our work begins at the outset of a project, with site selection and feasibility studies, design development to resolve and avoid potential adverse effects, through to supporting the resource consent process in hearings and addressing appeals. Our expertise covers urban, rural and natural areas; and infrastructure, housing, subdivisions, tourism developments, extraction activity and aquaculture.
