Tackling TPO’s – Understanding Tree Protection Orders (TPOs)
Trees play a vital role in enhancing our environment, offering beauty, shade, and essential benefits for wildlife and air quality and form a key element to every housing scheme. Protecting trees is often a priority, and one of the ways this is achieved is through Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs). What…
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Meet Our New Senior Arboriculture Consultant at James Blake Associates
We are pleased to introduce Ian Clarke whose expertise and passion for trees will further strengthen our arb offering as part of our multi-disciplinary approach to support our valued clients. Here’s a closer look at his journey, achievements, and aspirations. A Career Rooted in Arboriculture "I was drawn to arboriculture…
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Creating Serene Spaces: The art of landscape design in retirement communities
James Blake Associates works with clients specialising in the retirement living sector, including Churchill Retirement Living and Planning Issues. We are regularly commissioned as their lead Landscape Architect to assist with the planning process through to construction completion. This includes initial concept and strategic level landscape constraints and opportunities, detailed…
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Weed Eradication – Combatting the dreaded Japanese knotweed!
Japanese Knotweed, an invasive species, can quickly take over your property, ruin a development scheme and cause major damage to native plants, structures and landscapes and costly delays on a project. It can single-handedly make or break buying or selling a property so call our rapid response professional weed control…
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Calling All Humanities Grads
If you are a humanities Grad' or know one struggling to find a job: Apply here and now: We need top grad's to join a structured training on the job post to become a Landscape Impact Assessor: You just need to be bright, keen, a really good researcher and report…
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Barn Owl
Although primarily active at night, as well as at dusk and dawn, barn owls (Tyto alba) can also be spotted hunting in the daytime, especially if they have young to feed. This barn owl was spotted during a reptile survey last week. - Bethan Feeney-Howells Field Ecologist [video width="1920"…
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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) – A Quick Explanation
The National Planning Policy (NPPF) demands biodiversity net gain on new developments. Increasingly also nutrient neutrality: That's mostly nitrate and or phosphate discharge not increasing to water courses: Whilst sewage treatment can deal with this via chemical addition, but this is only possible where the system has the required infrastructure…
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The Demise of the BBC Licence Fee is Bad for Democracy
Whilst I realise anyone younger than 30 will be inclined to think that I am an old fart, one foot in the grave, I think the one advantage of being over 60 is the sobering perspective and sense of reason you acquire as your mortality is gradually absorbed with each…
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Interest rates!
Interest Rate Rise Raises Interest in Recession Speculation: Interest rates rose by 0.25% recently to stave off inflation. Was this a wise move? I’d like to think that those in charge know what they are doing, but when they justify the action, one that will plunder more families into poverty,…
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