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Creating Spaces

Entec’s landscape designers create spaces that integrate imagination, creative fl air and environmental and sustainable principles in order to ensure that the commercial goals of our clients are achieved.

As our designers sit within a multi-disciplinary planning, environmental and engineering consultancy, we are able to offer to clients fully integrated landscape design solutions. From restoring mill ponds, reviving historic coastal and world heritage status

landscapes, to developing residential communities and creating exciting, new urban plazas in the heart of London, our designers commit to deliver fresh thinking, vibrant solutions and a passion for creativity.

We are regularly commissioned by a range of private and public clients for the design and contract supervision of parks, streetscape, housing, regeneration and rural sites, including urban design and masterplanning.

We are also a market leader in EIA, landscape and visual assessment, landscape character assessment and SuDS, and work regularly with our sustainable design team, town planners, engineers, ecologists, hydrologists and cultural historians.

This capability statement highlights our approach to delivering new landscapes and provides a brief overview of a selection of projects within our portfolio.


Our Approach

Entec is one of the UK’s largest environmental and engineering consultancies. Our technical and business skills are dedicated to delivering strategic, technical and engineering solutions which bring commercial benefi ts to customers at home and overseas. This know-how is based on over 60 years of consulting experience in the public and private sectors.

Our approach to the environment is hopefully the same as yours. We are looking to create quality solutions that

have a sound and sustainable environmental base, helping our clients to achieve their business goals.

Our landscape architects are key to this process, and look for opportunities within projects to maximise design quality and value. Through clarity of thought, a sound environmental technical knowledge and a little imagination we produce designs which aim to please our clients, their users, the public and of course the environment itself.

Entec has leading expertise in the fi eld of sustainable design and appraisal advice. We provide a comprehensive yet fl exible, single-point consultancy service to clients, offering support from site design through to the implementation of sustainable technologies. This wide range and focused set of technical and policy skills informs all of the design work at Entec.


We consider the following

categories when developing

and optioning design

proposals:

energy – bio-mass fuel, micro-climatic landscape design for shading and cooling;

transport – site layout, green corridors, walking distances, pedestrian and cycle routes, traffi c calming;

pollution – reduced timber treatments, reduced run-offs, reclaimed materials, control chemicals, nurseries;

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materials – sustainable timber sources, reduced impact metals, reclaimed materials, embodied energy, plants;

water – harvesting, maintenance, irrigation, planting, evaporative cooling, SuDS;

ecology and land use

– conservation, adaptation, enhancement, diversity, management, confl icting land uses; and

health and well-being

– private and communal space provision, food and play, embedded tree cover.

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Subsequently, we consider design in the long term. We ensure that the very best sustainable practice is worked into masterplans, landscape and building design guidance. We work alongside the public and private sectors to promote the advantages of a sustainable approach, and challenge convention where a more sustainable solution exists.

A site specifi c approach is key, based upon sound baseline survey data and a clear understanding of briefi ng and fi nancial requirements. We communicate through imagery, looking to stimulate and challenge.


Selected Experience

Land Securities

Thomas More Square

Cathedral Group

Devonport House

Copeland Borough Council /West Lakes Rennaissance

Whitehaven Haig Colliery

Homes & Communities Agency and Taylor Wimpey

Telford Millennium Community

Anglia Ruskin University

Bishop Hall Mill Pond

Defence Estates

Arborfi eld Garrison Sustainable Community Masterplan


Copeland Borough Council

Mount Pleasant Park

Design For London

Cross River Park

Linden Homes

Merton Rise

Reading Borough Council

Kenavon Drive Public Realm Strategy

Homes & Communities Agency

Ketley Park, Telford

Private Client

Alvechurch Marina


The re-developed public realm of Land Securities’ Thomas More Square complex in central London has been completed and is now open to the public. The new landscape was designed by Entec’s landscape design team, working in conjunction with Pringle Brandon Architects.

The square has been transformed from a dated, clinical, cold and unwelcoming series of spaces to a refi ned, warm and re-humanised landscape for people to relax and enjoy.

The key message of the scheme is that corporate and commercial public realm landscapes can be soft and innovative in both function and form. There has been a precedent for the widespread use of polished granite cladding, metal and glass to represent ambition and success in both commercial architectural and public realm design. The scheme challenged this preconception by creating a softer, welcoming and comforting landscape which celebrates sustainability as an aesthetic in itself.

Land Securities

Thomas More Square


The delivered landscape, which took nine months to complete, is one of refi nement and softness. The large lawn features combined with the gabions, timber walls and seats, create a garden feel which is intrinsically more appealing to the users (and potential new tenants) than the former hard and windswept landscape spaces.


Entec has completed the landscape design works for a new landscape scheme at the front of the grade 2 listed Devonport House Conference Centre in Greenwich, London.

The site, which falls within the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage Site, will be opened to the public via a series of newly laid pathways and associated planting and lighting works. The design looks to both the past and the future paying homage to the original ‘lost’ garden treatment of the 1920s development through the relaying of pathways which link to the perimeter gates and archway.

Essential to the success of the scheme is the future use of the grounds, which will

see thousands of pedestrians able to criss-cross the site, gaining access to the National Maritime Museum as well as the conference centre and university residences.

The scheme integrates a series of newly commissioned cast iron gates, interpretation and directional signage and a lively planting scheme, which will give year round interest to the space.

This £250,000 project, commissioned by Greenwich Devonport Conference Centre Ltd, was completed in spring 2008 and provides a valuable new addition to the Greenwich town centre public realm.

Cathedral Group

Devonport House


Entec has completed the design and implementation of £1.65m of environmental improvements along the coastline and harbour side of Whitehaven. Through working closely with Copeland Borough Council, the Land Restoration Trust, National Trust, English Partnerships and Scartworks, Entec has developed a landscape scheme that identifi es with, conserves and reinforces linkages between the iconic physical reminders of the industrial and maritime past whilst refl ecting the wider coastal context.

Proposals for this 8.7 hectare open space have responded sensitively to the complexity of the environment including mining infrastructure, scheduled ancient monuments and listed buildings, a rich coastal habitat and the historic harbour side of Whitehaven. Key improvements have included the enhancement of the Candlestick Terrace

open space which overlooks Whitehaven Harbour to provide a major focal point for future public use. Designs include the implementation of new sandstone boundary walls, the provision of new sandstone paving and design of bespoke furniture and features including a circular mosaic, sandstone and steel motifs, sandstone etched surfacing and wall details (echoing the memories of the local mining community) and bespoke seating units.

To improve accessibility to the coast and connectivity to the harbour, a variety of access and pathway improvements for both pedestrian, cyclists and vehicles have been implemented. These include the provision of a new shared pedestrian/vehicular surface on Whitehaven harbour, improved access and entrance into the Haig Colliery Mining Museum, the implementation of new paths and sandstone steps, and provision of site signage and seating.

Copeland Borough Council/West Lakes Rennaissance

Whitehaven Haig Colliery


The site at East Ketley presented Entec’s landscape architects with a wide number of challenges including the presence of previous landfi ll sites, mineshafts and colliery spoil, north-facing slopes, habitats for protected species, and existing residential properties within and adjacent to the site. Telford Millennium Community consists of 650 new homes and community

facilities in an ecologically rich setting.

Design solutions for this site demonstrate sound sustainable and ecological principles that embody innovative design, construction and stewardship concepts. In particular the in-depth community design approach resulted in a robust and imaginative masterplan which anticipated the then

Homes & Communities Agency and Taylor Wimpey

Telford Millennium Community


pending changes to the planning system by demonstrating the depth and quality of stakeholder and community engagement.

Entec has led the planning, environmental, landscape architectural and engineering aspects of a multi-disciplinary design team including Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Jon Rowland and Capita Symonds. Entec’s landscape architects worked closely with the wider design team in developing the

initial masterplan; the public realm and open space strategy; outline and detailed planning applications; and tender documentation for streetscapes and open spaces.

An integral part of the open space and public realm was the design and detailing of access roads, streetscapes, two urban squares, parking areas and home zones in an arboricultural and ecologically rich context. In addition, works have included improvements to an existing

local park that lies immediately adjacent to the site. Key to our approach was the design of diverse and unique street-scapes and urban squares that were uncluttered, coherent and sensitive to promoting the safe use of shared surfaces. Close attention was paid to the use of high quality surface materials, street furniture and street planting to provide simple design arrangements and solutions to encourage and promote walking, cycling and playing much more.


Anglia Ruskin University has commissioned Entec to design and manage the environmental remediation of an historic mill pond situated on their Chelmsford campus. This complex project is managed by Entec’s landscape designers and involves land contamination, ecology, hydrology and civil engineering specialists.

Working closely with the Environment Agency, Entec is developing proposals to de-silt the pond, remediate the contaminated pond deposits, improve the pond’s ecological value and create a new landscape resource for the community.

Pathways, planting and seating will be included on the bank side with decked look out points. Bank side re-profi ling will accompany the remodelling of the pond, creating a two stage channel with a variety of profi les to maximise habitat opportunities.

Great crested newts and white clawed crayfi sh are to be surveyed prior to works commencing and considerations are also being given to reptiles, bats, fi sh and nesting birds. This £250,000 project aims to be completed during the autumn of 2008.


Bishop Hall Mill Pond


Entec has prepared a high level feasibility report to inform the potential of developing a major new residential expansion within and around the existing Arborfi eld Garrison in Berkshire.

After successfully promoting the development within the Local Development Framework, Entec is now engaged in developing an outline planning application for the site which will require a full Environmental Impact Assessment.

The masterplan draws together multiple inputs to form a comprehensive interdisciplinary design response to the site

with reference to ecology; archaeology; transport; landscape and visual; urban design and architecture; noise; air quality; fl ood risk; socio-economics; energy; drainage; contaminated land and utilities.

Founded on core principles of sustainability, the masterplan delivers new homes in a phased approach alongside a new school in mixed use zones.

Green routes connect the development to a country park with links to the surrounding countryside and other neighbouring villages.

Defence Estates

Arborfi eld Garrison Sustainable Community Masterplan


Entec was appointed by West Lakes Renaissance and Copeland Borough Council to design a range of environmental improvements to a derelict and under-used open space occupying a key location overlooking the historic harbour of Whitehaven in the Lake District.

Designs sensitively respond to the cultural signifi cance of the terraces within the park which are remnants of old industrial housing associated with the

Haig Colliery and the location of the Duke Pit Fan House (Scheduled Ancient Monument) within the site.

Proposals have included improvements to the public realm and linkages along the Whitehaven Coast for both pedestrians and cyclists. These include sustainable LED lighting solutions that are well integrated into the historically sensitive surroundings (embedded in walls and paving), an extension to the


Mount Pleasant Park

existing fl ight of sandstone steps and the design of a contemporary signage system.

Central to the park design has been the integration of arts and community spaces and features within the terraced landform. Features include an external art gallery, enhancements to harbour-side viewing spaces, external spaces designed for light projection, grass amphitheatre and contemporary furniture design.


Entec was commissioned as part of a wider consortium by Design For London to provide a feasibility study for a large urban park on land within the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Newham, effectively crossing the River Thames.

Having developed a range of costed design concepts, the primary objective was to confi rm whether a delivery and management strategy could be developed to render the park a reality.

Entec provided an overview of the baseline environmental conditions for the site area following a large scale desk top study. Following extensive stakeholder engagement and consultation, input was provided for the design strategy with objectives relating to recreational and amenity use, biodiversity benefi ts and sustainability targets that were locally specifi c.

Design options with varying foci were put forward that tied in

Design For London

(LB Newham, LB Greenwich, GLA group, LTGDC.)

Cross River Park

with local and regional planning and regeneration policy, as well as providing opportunities to meet with the objectives of the East London Green Grid and Thames Gateway Parklands.

Capital and management costs for the park were determined through identifi cation of key sites within the park area and indicative concepts for park-based land use suggested for each.


Entec has prepared landscape design proposals for submission to full planning application for this major housing project situated at the edge of Basingstoke in Hampshire. Working with the architects and following public realm design guidance developed by Hampshire

County Council, the scheme creates a vibrant and locally relevant landscape treatment. Features include new squares, cycle ways, green routes and numerous private and communal open spaces.

Linden Homes

Merton Rise


Entec has recently prepared a Public Realm Design Strategy for the Kenavon Drive area within the centre of Reading. The report aims to build upon masterplanning work which is guiding developers in their planning applications for this major regeneration site.

Entec landscape designers developed concepts for a central park, waterside connections, shared urban spaces and varying hierarchies of streetscapes.

Hard and soft materials and street furniture palettes have been proposed and design guidance given to ensure the future development matches the high quality aims and vision of the council. Designs will be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document and is currently at consultation stage.


Kenavon Drive Public Realm Strategy


Private Client

Alvechurch Marina

Entec was commissioned by a private landowner to develop a strategy and design to obtain detailed planning permission for a new marina located on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.

The project involved the construction of a new 75 berth soft edge marina with boat moorings secured on a series of fl oating pontoons. The site is set within the West Midlands Green Belt and is a sensitive environment comprising rich, water based ecology, a Conservation Area associated with the adjoining canal network, and a number of residential properties located adjacent to the site.

Entec developed designs that improved valued trees and hedgerows, and minimised impact on the adjacent canal habitats.

In support of this the scheme proposed a number of habitat creation features for water voles and reptiles including the design of coir roll soft banks to allow the successful establishment of wetland habitats.

An important part of the scheme has been ensuring that the marina fi ts within the existing landscape character of the area. Our approach minimises any loss of views and visual amenity experienced by adjacent residents and limits impact on the openness of the green belt. The overall landscape design positively responds to the character of the site through the use of existing landform to sensitively locate the development (marina, buildings and access roads), the implementation of new planting to enhance


existing, and the sensitive design of proposed buildings and supporting infrastructure using locally found materials and design features.

The scheme has recently obtained detailed planning permission.


Homes & Communities Agency

Ketley Park, Telford

Entec was appointed by the Homes & Communities Agency (formerly English Partnerships) to carry out the design and implementation of improvements to Ketley Park, Telford, as part of the Telford Millennium Community.

Designs include the provision of a series of seating terraces and an expansive grass bank designed to optimise views across the park, new paths and step features that allow access for all into and through the park, and contemporary park lighting and furniture.

The park setting has enabled the development of a planting scheme that optimises the open space to include large specimen trees; optimises the banks to provide a colourful planted backdrop for views across the site; and includes plant species to refl ect those contained within an existing rose garden.

Entec has worked on behalf of the clients to obtain planning permissions, prepare tender information and carry out contract administration for the implementation phase.

Working with the local community, Ketley Parish Council and Telford and Wrekin Borough Council, Entec has progressed designs from early concept options through to detailed design and implementation. From an early stage it was apparent that aspirations were not achievable within the client’s budget – this required a considerable amount of consultation, negotiation with the community and key stakeholders and a fl exible approach to design to achieve an agreed initial concept design.


Clients


BDP Architects

Bryant Homes

Cathedral Group

Charnwood Borough Council


Countryside Agency

The Crown Estate

Defence Estates

Design for London

East Ayrshire Council

Environment Agency

Greater London Authority

Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Greenways

Huntingdonshire District Council

Homes & Communities Agency (formerly English Partnerships)

Land Securities

Linden Homes

London Development Agency

Pringle Brandon Architects


Scottish Natural Heritage

Tarmac

Taylor Wimpey

Tesco Stores

West Lakes Renaissance

Workspace Glebe

Yorkshire Forward


Further Information

For further details on our landscape design and other services:

Telephone 0800 371733 Fax 0191 272 6592E-mail [email protected] www.entecuk.com

Or contact:

Anthony Brookfi eldLondon – 0207 843 2487anthony.brookfi [email protected]

Entec also offers key skills in:

Urban Design

Sustainable Design

Landscape Planning

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www.entecuk.com/design

Entec is one of the UK’s largest environmental and engineering consultancies. Our technical and business skills are dedicated to delivering strategic, technical and engineering solutions which bring commercial benefi ts to customers at home and overseas. This know-how is based on over 60 years of consulting experience in the public and private sectors.

Bound copies of this brochure are printed on Cyclus Offset – a 100% recycled paper made from de-inked post consumer waste.

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