We are asked to assist clients in a wide range of other initiatives:

Boundless Parks Naturally!

An INTER-REG funded research project, managed by Torfaen County Borough Council, into the planning and design of ‘gateways’ into protected landscapes.  The study compared and contrasted the approaches adopted for Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site, Veluwe National Park (Holland) and Hoge Kempen National Park(Belgium) and made strategic recommendations in relation to each area.

Bradbourn House East Malling

A review of the income-generating potential of a Grade I ‘stately house’ outside Maidstone owned by the East Malling Trust for Horticultural Research.  The study recommended a series of low volume, high income generation uses including serviced offices, conferencing, wedding venue, catering and functions.

Corsydd Llangloffan

Commissioned by Countryside Council for Wales to undertake a short study assessing the potential to work with a local farmer to convert farm outbuildings into a visitor centre for a National Nature Reserve in Pembrokeshire.

Stubton Village Hall

Assisted small village community of 140 people put together a project to create a new village hall.  Assisted with overall concept, successfully helped seek grants amounting to £100,000 from a variety of sources including the Millennium Commission.  The building is now being constructed.

Landscape 2000

An objective appraisal of an innovative environmental improvement initiative undertaken in and around St. Neot’s by a small team specifically appointed under a budget created through planning gain.  The aim was to assess whether the initiative had achieved its objectives, whether it had a longer term role and, if so, what it is and how it should be financed to achieve long term sustainability.

Devizes Visitor Study

Objective appraisal into the potential to physically and economically regenerate the North West Quadrant of the Town Centre providing an effective linkage between the Market Place and the Wharf of the Kennet and Avon Canal.  The study included a qualitative appraisal of the ‘tourism offer’ including the attractions, food and drink, accommodation (serviced and unserviced) and retail sectors, an appraisal as to the economic impact of the relocation of the County Record Office into the area and an Action Plan of initiatives to stimulate real and lasting economic benefit to the town.

Queen Elizabeth Country Park

Critical appraisal of the operation of the park in the mid 1980’s for Hampshire County Council and the Forestry Commission which reviewed everything that influences visitor attitudes and perceptions including signage, orientation, overall presentation, role of the visitor centre, education, interpretation and the events programme.  An Action Plan highlighted the way forward which was adopted and implemented.