Open Space Planning

Our specialist Landscape Planning Team have been responsible for the development and delivery of Open Space Audits / Open Space Strategies / Active Travel / Play Strategies / Cycle Routes throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland and further afield.

In-house integrated landscape planning and technical mapping services combine to provide a complete skill set addressing the full range of strategic planning, site audits, research, policy making, GIS spatial mapping and field evaluation. The team specialises in bespoke community & stakeholder engagement. Client focussed, our understanding of how Open Space projects fit with the wider strategic planning context, allows for an effective, efficient service to ensure the right solution is reached.

Major Open Space Planning Projects include:

• Developing and implementing a number of Open Space Strategies (15+ since 2004) – Aberdeen, Angus, Ards & North Down, East Lothian, Fife, Lisburn & Castlereagh, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, West Lothian etc.
• Southwest Scotland Green Action Travel Project for ‘The Clydesdale Way’ 2022
• Research projects for the Scottish Government, NatureScot, GCVGNP and Greenspace Scotland.
• “Greenspace Quality: A guide to the assessment, planning and strategic development of greenspace”
• “Minimum Standards for Open Space”, for the Scottish Government
• East Ayrshire Green/blue Path Network Feasibility Study
• Beauly - Denny Green Network Implementation
• East Dunbartonshire Play Sufficiency Assessment 2023
• Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Play Audit 2023
• Ards and North Down Open Space & Recreation Strategy, Northern Ireland
• South Ayrshire Council Play Strategy
• Glasgow Avenues Blocks B and Block S – pedestrian focused active travel routes and associated green/blue infrastructure and enhanced public realm
• Fife Forestry Strategy

For more information please contact: Guy Wimble / Andrew Daley / Jane Dixon