CONSERVATION AGENCIES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS

An image of Robyn Anne Spolander of Heathland Studio Landscape Architects engaging on site with conservation agencies and environmental consultants to discuss collaborative approaches to landscape planning and design at regional and county scale. The discussion focuses on how multidisciplinary working supports policy implementation, green infrastructure delivery, landscape stewardship, and long-term conservation outcomes.

The image reflects the studio’s approach to working with organisations involved in environmental management and enhancement, ensuring that landscape proposals align with strategic planning frameworks, ecological objectives, and land management priorities. This includes integrating biodiversity goals, habitat creation, and landscape-scale environmental improvements into development and regeneration projects.

We work with statutory bodies, conservation organisations & environmental professionals operating at regional & county scale across East Anglia who have highly skilled ecological or policy teams but limited in-house landscape design capacity.

Our clients in this sector are involved in policy implementation, green infrastructure projects, landscape stewardship, conservation delivery & management & environmental enhancement. This includes work linked to Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS), protected landscapes, habitat creation & long-term land management. We add particular value by translating policy ambition, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) imperatives, ecological goals into coherent, spatially legible, practical & deliverable landscapes that work on the ground.

We provide strategic, landscape-led design thinking that helps conservation & environmentally-focussed organisations turn ecological objectives & policy goals into clear, realistic & stewardable landscape frameworks — bridging the gap between ambition, design, ecological recovery, delivery & long-term resilience.

Landscape-led Frameworks

Conservation Delivery

Landscape & Ecology

Management Strategies

SERVICE OFFERING

Green Infrastructure

This is a 3D model of an urban precinct, showing a network of green infrastructure between buildings and transport links to mitigate the impact of development

Landscape Assessment

Site appraisal, landscape assessment & feasibility studies for development, planning & private projects across Suffolk, East Anglia & beyond, informed by landscape character, environmental context & technical expertise.

Optioneering

This image shows how we consider and strategise around green infrastructure and open space to ensure developers meet their objectives and adhere to planning requirements

Feasibility Studies

This image relates to our work on landscape feasibility studies to show how we consider stite opportunities and constraints, landscape character and client objectives to determine whether a site is suited to a particular development or project

Legislation & Guidance

We work collaboratively and in accordance with UK legislation and guidance

Open Space Design

Public Open Space design is one of our services. We design spaces with hard and soft landscaping elements for play and active use that are safe, user-friendly and enable child development

Guidance on Site Use

This image provides an aerial view of public spaces that have been designed to create meaningful places, enable interaction, optimise use and encure ecological resilience

Active Travel Strategies

We work on infrastructure projects in public areas that support movement of people between their homes and recreational facilities that support heathly lifestyles

Nature-Based Solutions

We offer nature based solutions on projects to ensure environmentally appropriate responses and mitigate the impacts of increasing pressures on natural resources

Placemaking Initiatives

We work with communities to design places and spaces that meet their requirements and respond appropriately to their context

Community Initiatives

We work with communities to design places and spaces that meet their requirements and respond appropriately to their context

Community Storytelling

We work with communities to design places and spaces that meet their requirements and respond appropriately to their context

Nature & Play Spaces

We work with communities to design places and spaces that meet their requirements and respond appropriately to their context

Learning Through Play

Community Identity