Award winning landscaping of Cromer Pier forecourt,
Norfolk, UK
Mott MacDonald provides a mainstream landscape and design
consultancy (encompassing urban design, landscape architecture and
management), in addition to professional services in ecology,
nature conservation and landscape appraisal.
Mott MacDonald has been involved with many masterplanning projects
at different scales. Urban masterplanning schemes include Humber
tidal defences and Gainsborough flood alleviation scheme in the UK.
In both cases a stretch of waterfront land earmarked for
development once vital flood protection was installed, needed a
coherent linking landscape design to enable a structure of public
circulation, open space and palette of landscape materials. We
undertook an
award-winning
landscape enhancement scheme for the
Promenade at Cromer, where hard
landscape elements were incorporated into the design in order to
manage pedestrian and traffic flows whilst enhancing the area’s
Victorian past. We have worked in a wide range of countries
including Europe and the Middle East. In recent years our projects
have included the Forestry Irrigation Project in Kuwait which
included the design of a number of roadside parks and trim-trails
and the landscape and visual impact assessment of two power
stations in Dubai. Our latest appointment is for the redevelopment
of St George’s Park in Great Yarmouth which aims to be the first
Green Flag park in Norfolk.
The landscape team has a long experience of close liaison with
local planning authorities and has in-depth knowledge of
environmental legislation. For example, we have assisted with
environmental impact assessments for the dualling of the A303
through the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the tunnelling of the A303
past Stonehenge and the tunnelling of the A3 close to the Devil’s
Punch Bowl at Hindhead which is both an AONB and a Site of Special
Scientific Interest (SSSI). These schemes required extensive
consultation and negotiation skills - something we consider are
part and parcel of our landscape design service.
Environmental enhancement and sustainability are core philosophies
of the Landscape Sector at Mott MacDonald. The landscape team has
endeavoured to create, and where possible improve existing wildlife
habitats throughout their work. Unlike many landscape architectural
practices, the staff at Mott MacDonald have an in depth knowledge
of native species and management techniques and the in-house
ecologists can provide specialist surveys, including aquatic
invertebrates and terrestrial flora. We include landscape designers
and ecologists in our multi-disciplinary project teams from project
initiation to ensure that landscape and nature conservation
objectives are combined with engineering, environmental and
planning considerations.
