services
We provide a highly responsive service from senior professionals with extensive and varied experience and enthusiasm for creating memorable places. We work closely with the client and project team at all times throughout the planning, design and production process. To supplement our in-house skills and experience, Nick has an established network of professional colleagues who provide related specialist services in arboriculture, planning, engineering and architecture. Nick has collaborated with other landscape architects and designers on a number of highly successful and award winning projects ranging from urban design and land reclamation to town centres and private gardens. We offer the following services. Click a topic to reveal more.
assessment and research
- Landscape survey and assessment – site, context and heritage assessment
- Urban design assessment – CPTED assessment and analysis of urban design proposals, using the National Guidelines for Crime Prevention through Environmental Design in New Zealand, the NZ Urban Design Protocol and international Urban Design criteria
- Visual Assessment for RMA, including volcanic viewshaft assessments
- Arbor (Tree) survey and assessment
- Community and user consultation – public presentations and facilitation of community input
- Research – Historical and scientific, literature searches, site monitoring and project research
planning
- Expert witness services
- CPTED and IPTED analysis and advice
- Auditing and assessment of landscape and urban design aspects of RMA applications
ecology
- Assessment of vegetation for biodiversity, habitat and conservation value
- Assessment of streams and riparian areas
- Recommendations for management and integration within development proposals
- Enhancement and re-vegetation proposals including establishment contracts
- Pest plant management, long-term revegetation management
arboriculture
- Assessment or trees and other woody vegetation
- Recommendations for conservation, integration within development proposals or removal
- Methodologies for tree retention during construction works
- Tree work specifications and tree maintenance plans
- Plans for replanting and establishment
design
- Masterplanning and site planning
- Site concept plans and layouts
- Urban design – street layout and streetscape, residential and commercial development
- Landscape design – parks, public spaces, housing, campuses, courtyards, roofs and walls
- Garden design – private and public gardens of all scales (see the residential + garden section of this website)
- Planting design – we create planting that is well adapted to the site, richly layered and has a strong sense of place and harmony
- Tender drawings and documentation – complete documentation for physical works
implementation
- Project management
- Tender procurement
- Contract letting and supervision
- Site works monitoring