We provide landscape architectural input to civil engineering and multidisciplinary teams on streets, highways and active travel infrastructure, helping create routes that function efficiently while also becoming comfortable and attractive places to use.

Our role bridges technical requirements and user experience. We design both hard and soft landscapes coordinated with underground services, drainage strategies, levels, visibility splays and maintenance requirements, ensuring schemes are deliverable, adoptable and practical to maintain. By integrating landscape thinking early in the design process, projects progress more smoothly through planning, approval and construction stages while reducing redesign risk and long-term costs.

Planting and material strategies are developed to improve environmental performance and user comfort. Tree planting and vegetation provide shade and evapotranspiration cooling to mitigate the urban heat island effect, improve air quality and enhance biodiversity connectivity. Seasonal interest and spatial definition help create streets and paths that people feel comfortable using, encouraging walking and cycling.

We support compliance with UK highway and planning processes including Section 278 highway works, Section 38 adoption agreements and Section 106 obligations, alongside local authority public realm standards and, where relevant, DMRB guidance. Designs also respond to root protection areas, drainage behaviour, microclimate and future growth to ensure long-term resilience and successful establishment.

Through close collaboration with engineers and planners, we help deliver transport corridors that work not only as infrastructure but as valued public spaces.