LDA Design is an independent creative consultancy helping clients to deliver places which work well.

Nowadays, development and regeneration is judged by the quality of the landscape. It holds the ring for solving all the technical challenges of a complex site, from contamination and remediation to drainage and ecology. Then it carries on providing all the functions that make a place work. Big or small, it must feel inviting and delightful. It must weave the human world with the natural world and allow ecology into our lives.

At LDA Design, we work at every scale, in the UK and abroad. We provide design and landscape-led planning services to developers, landowners, communities, universities and government. We have built our reputation on strong delivery.

We know the secret to successful development:  it has to be sociable. We start with how people live, in our work as placemakers – masterplanners, urban designers and landscape architects. The living needs to feel easy. People want to belong. We use our imaginations.

Places should be memorable. We learn about setting, history and context, so that we can reinforce identity and culture. As planners, we take a positive approach to securing consent, optimising the opportunity to win support. We respond thoughtfully to historic environments and the built heritage. We bring applied expertise in climate change, and understand how to make best use of natural resources.

We have 150 people working in offices across England and Scotland, and we like variety. So, while we have a wealth of expertise in award-winning parks, we also design pop-ups. We are equally at home advising on the future of a major port or perfecting a beautiful bench. We relish the new thinking required to masterplan an urban extension or an inner city quarter. We are proud of our work for renewable energy schemes: small or large, they are all part of a low carbon future.

We have always rated the unexpected. We leapt at a surprise invitation to redesign Gorky Park in Moscow. We are learning a lot from belonging to global teams transforming post-industrial sites in Russia, India and the Middle East.

At LDA Design, we love what we do.