LANDSCAPE CUSTODIANS & PUBLIC BODIES

An image of Robyn Anne Spolander of Heathland Studio Landscape Architects engaging with landscape custodians and public bodies, including local authorities, district councils, and borough councils across Suffolk and East Anglia. The interaction reflects a collaborative approach to landscape planning, design governance, and policy-led development, ensuring alignment between project proposals and local planning frameworks.

The discussion highlights the importance of working with public sector stakeholders to support high-quality landscape outcomes, green infrastructure delivery, and place-sensitive design. It demonstrates how coordinated engagement with decision-makers and land custodians helps embed landscape, ecological, and community priorities into development at both strategic and site-specific scales.

We support local authorities & public bodies including county, district & borough councils,

working at county & sub-regional scale across East Anglia.

Our focus is on departments & teams responsible for policy delivery, public realm projects, Green Infrastructure (GI) planning, climate adaptation initiatives, & long-term place management of public landscape assets.

We offer strategic contextual & landscape-led approaches & early-stage strategic input to help align policy ambition with practical, maintainable & cost-aware landscape solutions, reducing long-term risk & future liabilities.

We provide independent, senior-led landscape advice that helps public bodies deliver Green Infrastructure (GI), public realm projects & Active Travel approaches that are policy-aligned,

maintainable & resilient — supporting better outcomes over the full life of the project & into the future.