Thoughts on landscape architecture, the landscape profession, 2B's news updates and technical musings.
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Dec 16th, 2020
A reflection on Slow The Flow's recent successes, encouraging Natural Flood Management and Sustainable Drainage Systems in response to flooding in Calderdale.
Sep 23rd, 2020
Amanda takes a detailed look at the new 'sewers for adoption' guidance, in a piece for Slow The Flow.
Mar 29th, 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to rapidly adapt to remote working. We have been using video-conferencing more often, we have produced some notes to help video conferences run more smoothly.
Jan 17th, 2020
Dec 23rd, 2019
We hope you have a lovely break over Christmas and are looking forward with positive optimism to what will, no doubt, be an even more challenging year than usual.
We'll be off enjoying the holidays from Dec 25th, and the office will re-open on 2nd January.
We'll be off enjoying the holidays from Dec 25th, and the office will re-open on 2nd January.
Dec 19th, 2019
This year we have been backing the Landscape Institute's #chooselandscape campaign. Choose Landscape aims to encourage young people to start in, and older people to convert to, the landscape profession. Using the key phrases 'Connect people, Transform places, Protect nature' - who wouldn't want to be part of our great profession?
Dec 19th, 2019
Coo, what is a SuDS retrofit exemplar? Well, SuDS = Sustainable Drainage Systems and retrofit means it wasn't originally designed this way, but now it is!
Exemplar? - you would be hard-pushed to do more or better!
Dec 19th, 2019
Slow the Flow, of which Amanda is a founder member, just keeps going from strength to strength. In one of her final projects before going off on maternity leave, Amanda teamed up with Stuart Bradshaw of Terrain Geotechnical Consultants for a Slow the Flow project. Together, they evaluated and mapped the Natural Flood Management and Sustainable Drainage opportunities around Mytholmroyd in the Calder valley.
Dec 18th, 2019
When a local couple told us that the noise from an A-road adjacent to their garden was driving them mad, we knew what to do. Here's the story.
Dec 18th, 2019
It is easy to get bogged down in the complexity of technically accurate visualisation. Sometimes something simple is all that is needed - provided the planning authority agrees! Here are a couple of examples.