Our Seasonal Ecologist Recaps His Work Experience Placement with James Blake Associates and now Welcome Aboard!
I’m writing this blog entry to give an overview of my work experience placement with James Blake Associates Ltd. (JBA). In June 2025, I spent two weeks with the ecology department at JBA. At the time, I was two years out of my undergraduate degree in Zoology, and although I…
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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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Valuable insights at JBA – developing practical skills
At JBA, we provide regular work placements and experience for students and aspiring landscape architects, ecologists, and future arboriculture experts. These opportunities allow us to nurture potential talent while enabling students to gain hands-on experience and practical skills in a professional environment. In this blog, a West Suffolk student shares…
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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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JBA’s case study is featured in this year’s RIBA London directory
We are thrilled to be featured in @RIBALondon RIBA London 2024 directory out this week alongside our friends CZWG Architects and Vistry Partnerships on the Oaklands Rise scheme #London. Our landscape design team were proud to be part of this major regeneration scheme – the first of its kind within…
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An interesting insight into working in JBA’s ecology team – bats, invertebrates, butterflies and irrigation issues!
What are you studying and how do you feel your time at JBA has benefitted you? I am currently in my final year at the University of Suffolk studying BSc (Hons) Wildlife, Ecology and Conservation Science. During my time with James Blake Associates Ltd, I have gained a wide range…
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A Birds Eye View from our ecology team…
This month we are taking a bird’s eye view of our ecology team and track down what they’ve been up to and homing in on and where they really want to be to catch the next wildlife spectacle! Field ecologist at James Blake Associates, Harry Hirst, tells us about the…
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