Field of Expertise

Sian has a diverse portfolio, ranging from the design, management and maintenance of hard and soft landscape proposals for a variety of schemes; including housing and infrastructure sites, to more rural shared use routes and bridleway projects, as well as feasibility studies for community design commissions.  Located in the heart of Snowdonia, Sian is particularly interested in rural commissions that demand innovative, aesthetically pleasing design solutions, whether they are on a large or small scale.  North Wales coastline also presents its challenges when it comes to soft landscape proposals, but over the years Sian has created a pallet of salt-tolerant plants, able to withstand the harshest of weather.

 

Sian is an accomplished professional and manages her projects from inception through to completion.  Following the successful planning submission for the Bodnant Welsh Food Centre, located in the Conwy Valley, Sian undertook the hard and soft external detailed design of this prestigious, award winning development.  Modern, yet sympathetic hard landscape proposals surround the newly refurbished barns and former stables. Complex level changes were dealt with using a series of steps and ramps, carefully designed to fit into the historic former working farm environment.

 

More recently a large part of Sian’s workload has included the preparation of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA’s) and Landscape Design and Access Statements (DAS), to accompany large planning applications.  The LVIA’s have then formed part of an Environmental Statement, again collated by Sian.

 

Sian has developed a pragmatic approach and specialist expertise in the field of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and coordination of complex rural schemes within highly sensitive landscapes; from the raising of the dam at Dinorwig Power Station, a pumped storage facility in the heart of Snowdonia; to the below ground routing of the pipeline for Dolgarrog Hydro Electric Power Station, again within the Snowdonia National Park. Sian has recently undertaken a landscape character assessment, LVIA, DAS and collation of an EIA to produce an Environmental Statement for a new engineering facility and mixed use development proposal in the middle of Anglesey.

 

Summary of main areas of work include:

 

• Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)

• Design and Access Statements (DAS)

• Hard and Soft Landscape Design

• Landscape Mitigation Measures & Management Plans

• Planning Applications - Discharge of Landscape Planning Conditions

• Feasibility Studies, Regeneration and Townscape Initiatives

• Community Play Schemes & Off-Road Routes (Cycling & Equestrian)

• Environmental Coordinator, Project management & Site Supervision