This year, the Landscape Institute launched a seminal new briefing paper, Maximising value from built development: How a landscape-led approach delivers more for people, place and nature.
As the government seeks to deliver 1.5 million homes over the next five years, putting ‘landscape first’ has never been more critical. The coming years will see the transformation of large areas of UK land and the creation of many new landscapes through new homes and infrastructure.
Where the original briefing set out the key criteria and benefits of landscape-led approaches, this edition of Landscape sets the context, explores the detail, and brings more voices into the conversation.
We explore the key issues driving the need for landscape-led approaches, from housing and health to climate and nature (p12). We take a historical lens to the approach and return to the very foundations of the profession, shining a light on the enduring influence of early pioneers (p24) and invoking its key conventions (p32). We consider the va
