Consultation Based Services

Consultation services are delivered either in-person through workshops or remotely online. These sessions are suited to clients who require targeted, high-value input prior to project inception, or who wish to deepen their understanding of key concepts in landscape planning to inform the development of a future project.

Project Based Services

Project-based services encompass all aspects of landscape architecture, with a particular emphasis on both masterplanning and planting design. This includes projects requiring statutory submissions such as planning applications to local councils. All commissions are delivered in accordance with the RIBA Plan of Work, ensuring clearly defined stage deliverables, coordinated workflows, and structured information exchange with clients, consultants, and contractors.

Each project scope is tailored to the brief and site complexity and may comprise one or multiple work stages depending on project requirements. A complete design service typically progresses through all four principal work stages, advancing from initial site and context analysis to concept development and stakeholder alignment, through masterplanning and technical design, to implementation oversight and construction supervision with appointed delivery partners.

Fees are project-specific and established in response to scope, programme, and complexity. Detailed fee proposals can be issued on request once foundational project information has been provided by the client or project manager, and following a site inspection.

Workstage 1 - Site and Context Analysis

The objective of Workstage 1 is to define the specific identity of a landscape, its genius loci.

Context analysis combines ecological research with cultural analysis, including a baseline botanical and habitat survey to document existing flora, predictive modelling to identify appropriate and potential plant communities, and appraisal of physical site conditions such as geology, lithology, hydrology, aspect, and gradient. Historic land-use patterns that have shaped current landscape character are also investigated, and, where relevant, both traditional and contemporary land-management practices are presented to provide contextual understanding.

Site analysis investigates the physical characteristics of the property, presenting a framework for understanding how a spatial concept can be generated.

Workstage 1 culminates in a structured design presentation, which includes a high-level spatial strategy and a strategic plan that situates the site within its broader landscape context in preparation for the concept design stage.

Workstage 2 - Concept Design

The aim of Workstage 2 is to develop a clear and compelling conceptual spatial design that aligns the client’s brief with the insights gained during site and context analysis. Concept design is an iterative and collaborative process between client and designer, evolving through structured dialogue, refinement cycles, and shared decision-making.

The emerging spatial strategy is communicated at an appropriate design scale and illustrated through a range of professional media, which may include plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, and curated reference imagery to ground design intent and support spatial understanding.

Workstage 3 - Landscape Masterplan

The objective of Workstage 3 is to translate the approved concept into a comprehensive, coordinated masterplan and supporting technical design package. Deliverables include a full site masterplan, detailed plans for key areas illustrating both softscape and hardscape elements, isometric planting illustrations, a water-management strategy, and earthworks, grading, and irrigation diagrams. Where required, a phased delivery or implementation plan is also developed to support structured project rollout.

A final planting schedule is prepared, informed by design intent and site conditions, utilising an extensive in-house species database of over 2500 taxa appropriate for a Mediterranean context. Partner nurseries are consulted to confirm plant availability, existing stock, and species suitable for contract growing or propagation. Hardscape suppliers, specialist contractors, and material producers are shortlisted and presented to the client alongside procurement pathways.

Workstage 3 concludes with a clear, itemised budget proposal aligned with the masterplan scope.

Workstage 4 - Implementation oversight

Workstage 4 supports the effective realisation of the landscape design through coordinated collaboration, technical guidance, and on-site oversight. The stage begins with detailed consultation with partner plant nurseries to confirm species selection, stock availability, container specifications, and lead times for contract growing or propagation where required. Recommendations are also issued for appropriate implementation contractors, including specialist landscape builders, earthworks teams, irrigators, and softscape installers, aligned to project needs and delivery capacity.

On-site oversight follows, providing periodic inspections, spatial layout verification, grading and drainage confirmation, planting placement guidance, and irrigation installation review at key moments in the construction sequence.

This stage is advisory in nature, ensuring continuity between design, procurement, and site execution. Full-time construction supervision or contract administration can be commissioned separately from a third-party if required.