We have built up a huge portfolio of landscape projects, including masterplans, sports and leisure facilities, housing schemes, garden designs, habitat restoration and creation and urban space design. We have also been engaged in landscape character assessments, landscape spatial planning and visual and landscape impact assessments.

South Humber Bank Heritage Tourism Project

The South Humber Bank Partnership’s Heritage Tourism Project has developed through the close working of a group of organisations with interests in the natural and built heritage of the Humber estuary. The Project’s partners are North Lincolnshire Council, English Heritage, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Queen Street School Preservation Trust.

This Project builds on successful working relationships that have been established over a number of years to further the potential for tourism on the south bank of the River Humber, building a critical mass of high quality, integrated and complementary attractions and destinations on the themes of our natural and cultural heritage.

The vision and aim of the South Humber Bank Partnership is to ‘bring the magic of the South Humber Bank’s rich heritage to a wider audience’. This Heritage Tourism Project helps fulfil this aim by building up the assemblage of natural and built heritage sites and promoting the assets nationally and internationally as a tourist destination and economic driver for the region. An education and training programme will also bring the delights of the region to a wide audience of all ages.

Funding totalling £4.3 million has been secured to assist in the restoration and improvement of the following sites in the Barton upon Humber locality:

• St Peter’s Church – English Heritage
• Thornton Abbey & Gatehouse – English Heritage
• Far Ings Education Centre –
  Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
• Queen Street School –
  Queen Street School Preservation Trust
• The Boathouse Bunk House –
  North Lincolnshire Council
• Alkborough Flats Access Work –
  Environment Agency & English Nature

With considerable funding support secured from Yorkshire Forward, HLF and English Heritage as well as individual project partners, visitor facilities will be improved and promoted through the Project to offer local, national and international visitors the opportunity to enjoy the natural and built treasures of the Barton upon Humber area.

Maslen Environmental, on behalf of the partners, developed the project, prepared the funding bids and now continues to support the implementation of the work.

Princes Soft Drinks Factory, Bradford - Wind Turbine

This project has involved co-ordinating the proposals for a wind turbine at the Princes Soft Drinks site in Bradford.
The 120m high turbine is planned to be sited on the factory site and provide a significant proportion of the factory's energy requirements from a renewable resource.

We have been commissioned to prepare of the landscape and visual impact assessment and pre-planning application public consultation. The public consultation display boards, prepared by ourselves, are illustrated on the attached Adobe pdf document.

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Alkborough Flats - Largest Managed Retreat in the UK

This project has been planned over the last 5 years and is the largest single managed realignment site in the UK. The site is 400ha in extent, comprising of Grade 1 agricultural land, which has been turned into wetlands and salt marsh grazing.

We have been involved in the project from the outset in supporting the partnership promoting and managing this project, comprising Environment Agency, English Nature, North Lincolnshire Council and the Countryside Agency.

The Alkborough approach has been to engage with a wide range of interested stakeholders from the outset. We have, amongst other things, been engaged in developing and maintaining stakeholder interests in the planning and construction of the project. A number of these stakeholders have had diverse interests, for example wildfowlers and conservation interest groups, footpath and recreational users and local villagers. These stakeholders interests have been managed with our support.

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FRaME - Flood Risk Management in Estuaries, Sustainable New Land Uses

This is an Interreg funded European partner project involving the Environment Agency from the UK. We worked with the Dutch water based consultancy MH Delft to develop the partnership and facilitated the project development with them and then jointly prepared the bid for funding.

The project considers sustainable new land uses associated with managing flood risks in estuaries, specifically considering realignment sites. We continue to support the partnership through direct commission with the lead Dutch partner DLG and currently maintain the website: www.frameproject.org

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Beam Washland – Multifunctional Landscape Approach to Flood Storage Areas (FSA)

We were asked by the Environment Agency and Land Restoration Trust to consider a range of environmental and public amenity enhancements that could be developed on the back of a proposed upgrading to a flood storage area in the Thames Gateway. The work involved preparing a masterplan for the FSA and for its landscape setting taking in other parts of the Beam Valley, the adjacent Dagenham Park and surrounding housing areas. Our work also involved detailed costings and preparation of a business case for the enhancements on behalf of the partners.

Clay Cross – Quarry restored to Sports Pitches

A project to transform the former Clay Cross iron works in Derbyshire into a housing, recreation and business complex is now well underway.

We have now completed the detailed restoration plans for the Egstow quarry site including the detailed design and specification of a football and cricket field and a bowling green on the restored land. The sports pitches are planned for use in early 2007.

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Waters' Edge Visitor Centre and Country Park

The site comprised 34 ha of the former contaminated Britag Chemical factory site at Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, adjacent to the River Humber. We undertook the role of co-ordinating the initial consultation activity, the planning submission and the EIA, involving input from specialist consultants in areas including; hydrology, ecology, archaeology, highways, ground investigation and risk assessment.

Design development included masterplanning the proposed restoration to public amenity and recreational afteruse, access improvements and also assisting the client with the estate management strategy.

Our work included leading and co-ordinating the design and construction of the Waters’ Edge Visitor and Business Centre. This £3.5 million centre is the focal point of the Country Park and provides display areas, business space, a café and teaching rooms.

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Bracken Ghyll Golf Course

This project involved the design and planning of a new 9 hole golf course and facilities in a sensitive area of the Wharfe Valley, near Ilkley, comprising parkland and fields defined by dry stone walls. The scheme was designed in such a way as to fit the Dales landscape. The course has now been extended to 18 holes. Maslen Environmental designed the playing arrangements and prepared detail design and specifications for the greens and tees, prepared and submitted the planning application and supporting statements.

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Shay Grange Golf Course

The project involved the planning and design of a nine hole golf course to accompany a driving range and new club house. All the design work was undertaken in house and course construction undertaken through competitive tender. Associated work involved submission of planning applications, seeking abstraction licences, woodland grant applications and preparation of management plans for the course and grounds.

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Chevin Hall Farm

This was a private garden with extensive views over the Wharfe Valley. A design feature was to create intimate smaller scale spaces around the house – a former farm building.

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Dene Head Farm

The job entailed external work improvements around the farm and access to it, including a new pond.

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Far Ings Habitat Creation

This project involved the winning of minerals for the reclamation of an adjacent derelict site and the creation of 5 hectares of new wetlands. The designs incorporated various depths to create a mosaic of reedbeds and open water, which could be managed easily and provide habitats for bittern.

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Harden Grange

This parkland restoration project involved masterplanning the estate grounds and redesigning various components of the estate to re-establish its former grandeur. Detailed designs involved reinstating the avenue to the hall, reinstating the kitchen gardens, new formal borders along the rear elevation of the hall and woodland management plans.

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Lady Lane

This work involved detailed landscape designs for various parts of the former Bingley College campus, which was converted for residential use and to provide a new school. Our work encompassed designing the showpiece centre to the site – the village green pond – and also designing the school playing field facilities.

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Queen Street School - Heritage Restoration

Queens St School was closed in 1978. It has been identified by English Heritage as ‘one of the most important schools in England’ but has deteriorated badly since closure.

The Queen St School Preservation Trust formed in 1993 by local people seeks to restore the school through finding new uses which ensure its sustainability and celebrate the life of its founder Samuel Wilderspin. Samuel Wilderspin was a founder of modern schooling and of international importance. We have worked closely with the Trust, their partners and the architectural team to prepare a Business Plan for the restoration and new uses of the school.

We have worked on these with funders and over £1.5 million has now been secured from English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Yorkshire Forward to support implementing the Business Plan. On behalf of the Trust we have appointed the design team led by Potts Parry Ives and Young, specialist archaeological surveyors and enabling works contractors. The school will re-open as an education and visitor centre in summer 2007.

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MR MOTOWFO - Life Environment Project

We were engaged by the Environment Agency to prepare a project plan and submit an application for LIFE-Environment funding for €900,000. The project was approved in July 2006 - just one of two approved UK LIFE-Environment projects in 2006.

Humberhead Levels and Moors – A Multifunctional Landscape Approach

A Partnership of organisations has come together to help create a vibrant community, environment and rural economy across the relatively unexplored area of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. The Humberhead Levels is a vast area of lowland stretching from Selby to Retford and is of immense historical, archaeological and conservation value. The Partnership has been formed to encourage investment and to place the Humberhead Levels on the national and international map.

We were brought in the establishment of the Partnership, to help develop the Partnership objectives and provide ongoing partnership support. The Partnership is currently developing a series of linked activities which demonstrate the benefits from alternative multifunctional landscape approaches to planning and land management.

Thorne and Hatfield Moors – The Largest Raised Bog Peatland
Restoration in Europe

A long history of peat extraction at Thorne and Hatfield moors has left a severely damaged and disturbed landscape. These two moors extend for nearly 2500 ha and are the largest lowland raised bogs in the UK and are now part of the largest peatland restoration scheme in Europe.

There are proposals for visitor facilities and we have been assisting with this work, including developing a local oral history project, running workshops on the visitor facility requirements and studies on suitable locations.

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Penistone E-Learning Centre – Renewable Energy and Sustainability Appraisal

The E-Learning Centre is to provide facilities for independent and classroom learning for the communities of Penistone and District. The facilities were to be provided through the refurbishment of a former library. As part of the plans we were asked to examine and feasibility and costs of; introducing a building management system, incorporating building integrated renewable energy systems, other opportunities to introduce sustainable building design and management.

The work was commissioned by Yorkshire Forward and presented as a costed options appraisal taking the whole life cycle analysis approach.

Other Project Profiles

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