Blog Entries

 The Long Road, Torbay Application received  planning consent in February 2012!!!!!!!!!!

 Lavigne Lonsdale (Martyn Lonsdale) has been accepted by the Princes Foundation for the Built Environment as part of their network of practitioners.

 Standard Hill, Hugglescote, Coalville, Leicestershire application due to be submitted before xmas !!!!!!!!!! The scheme for Miller Homes delivers 400 much needed houses in Coalville to help the Authority meet their targets for housing delivery.  The 19ha site is well located to the urban centre of the town and aims to provide better footpath and cycle links to the surrounding area. Post Application public consultation due in late January 2012.

 The web site has gone live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After many months of hard slog, the web site is live but is still under construction. We hope you like it and that if you have any comments, just send us an e-mail (martyn@lavignelonsdale.co.uk) and we will try and respond!

Thanks for looking!!!!!!!   

 I ( Martyn Lonsdale) gave a lecture this week in London for the RTPI on the subject of  New Routes to Design at a Local Level. The subject was aimed at understanding how the design and delivery process (for which Planning is only a small component) can effect the quality of a project. I am sure as landscape architects, you have all been in the position of having budgets cut after planning through the process of Value Engineering, and how this can drastically effect the quality and ‘intent’ of a project following Planning and Design Review.  This lecture was aimed at creating a debate regarding continual Design Review through the construction phases of projects and the need to maintain quality in the face of spending cuts.

Other speakers included Kathy MacEwen (CABE), Chris Lamb (Kent Architecture Centre), Dominic Murphy (Creating Excellence) and Sophia de Sousa (Glass House).