MONTH IN REVIEW
The scheme is due on site in 2017 and has
the potential to be one of the most exciting
large-scale regeneration developments in
the East Midlands.”
A statement by landscape architecture firm Gillespies
APPOINTMENTS
BARTON WILLMORE
PROMOTES FIVE NEW
DIRECTORS
Landscape Architects Barton
Willmore has announced the
promotion over 30 colleagues
from across the business, including
five new directors.
The promotions, which feature
more females than males, account
for around 10% of the 370 strong
people within the business.
Among those who were
promoted from associate to
director level were Peter Roberts
– planning director, Bristol;
Marie Jasper – planning director,
London; Dan Osborne planning
director, London; Alexandra
Marsh - legal director, Reading
and Rebecca Horrocks – planning
director for Southampton.
Roberts joined Barton Willmore
in 2009 as a senior planner
and has worked on a number of
landmark schemes across the
South West. Jasper has been at
Barton Willmore since 2006,
she initially joined as a senior
before being promoted to the role
of associate in 2010. Osbourne
joined Barton Willmore in 2012 as
an associate and advises a mix of
residential and commercial clients,
including Barratt London, HUB
Residential, Bell Hammer and
SEGRO.
Marsh is a qualified solicitor
who will lead Barton Willmore’s
legal and compliance team,
providing in-house advice across
the practice. Prior to joining
the organisation in 2016, she
worked in the private sector in
both London and Oxfordshire.
TRADE ASSOCIATIONS LEVIN REVIEW
£11.6BN LANDSCAPE
SERVICES INDUSTRY
‘MUST BE TAKEN
SERIOUSLY’, SAYS BALI THE LETWIN REVIEW
IS A ‘WIN’ FOR THE
DESIGN SECTOR,
SAYS HTA DESIGN
A new industry report, commissioned
by the Ornamental Horticulture Round
Table Group (OHRTG), has revealed
that landscape services generated a
total of £11.6bn contributions in 2017.
The British Association of
Landscape Industries (BALI), a
member of the commissioning group, is
now calling on government officials to
give meaningful support to landscaping
in the UK.
The group said supports needs to
be focused on providing adequate
levels of funding to support businesses
offering placements for apprentices
and ensuring a sufficient and reliable
pool of talent to help meet current and
future workforce needs.
BALI said landscape services, which
includes domestic and commercial
construction, design and private and
public grounds maintenance, also
provides £880m in direct annual
tax revenue to the Exchequer. This
figure increases to £2.2bn when wider
landscaping activities are included.
The architecture and landscape
design company HTA Design
has called The Letwin Review
announced in the Autumn budget
a “win” for the design sector.
HTA said the review
recognised the importance of
well-designed places with varying
house types and tenures in
distinct settings, and, landscapes
and street-scapes that people
want to live in.
The Letwin Review concluded
that the homogeneity of the
types and tenures of the homes
commonly available from the
major housebuilders limits the
rate at which the market can
absorb such products.
The review states: “...if either
the major house builders
themselves, or others, were to
offer much more housing of
varying types, designs and tenures
(and, indeed, more distinct
settings, landscapes and street-
scapes) on the large sites and if
the resulting variety matched
appropriately the desires of the
people wanting to live in each
particular part of the country,
then the overall absorption rates
– and hence the overall build out
rates – could be substantially
accelerated; the outcome at
which we should aim…is more
variety within those sites.”
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