Landscape Planning.
MNLA contribute to the overall planning of mid and large scale projects through undertaking landscape master planning in conjunction with the project team’s broader planning strategies.

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Landscape Planning

Clarifying the key goals of a project by overlaying landscape design principles onto existing landform, topography, vegetation and drainage needs enables a cohesive, cost effective and performance based outcome.

Site responsive analysis, assessment and design is frequently the driver of project character, layout and orientation. Local landscape elements contribute to the retention of a sense of place that can mark a project as distinct from others in the local district or broader region.

MNLA work in conjunction with the project team through the re-zoning or Local Structure Plan processes to ensure the longer term and cost effective delivery of the landscape based commitments that are made as part of the initial planning phases of a project's establishment.

Structure Planning

MNLA have provided extensive landscape advisory services to numerous clients and projects to gain both District Structure Plan (DSP), Detailed Area Plan (DAP) and Local Structure Plan (LSP) approvals.

 MNLA work closely with the client and consulting team to assess approval requirements. We provide proactive broad landscape design advice to support planning, engineering and environmental design solutions to best achieve project goals.

MNLA pay particular attention to testing various design options through a budgeting and delivery process that ensures proposals are delivered in a manner that adds value.

 Our range of District Structure Plan (DSP) and Landscape Structure Plan (LSP) inputs and experience include:

  • Initial analysis of site character / viable site assets
  • Analysis of research and trends to inform overarching site responsive design principles
  • Understanding co-consultant needs, requirements, opportunities and constraints.
  • Maximising topographic opportunities promoting character & diversity
  • Maintenance minimisation and life cycle cost analysis
  • Streetscape planning inclusive of road hierarchy character design
  • Design advice promoting diverse, well located community creation content and facilities.
  • Assessment of adjacent communities to locate any community, facility or social deficiencies that can be included or rectified within a new project (eg a feature element or local social strategy) thus enticing local adjacent residents to upgrade and improving social goals.
  • Consideration of design to focus upon maximising client return with expenditure altered to an investment with a return rather than a cost.
  • Landscape budget planning at early stages to test and inform the planning design
  • Water asset management and authority approval and handover process.
  • Preplanning the irrigation method and delivery linked into water harvesting techniques.
  • Preplanning for drainage mitigation and sustainable stormwater management practices.
  • Preplanning for nutrient capture and water quality preservation
     

Projects where our landscape planning advice has successfully been utilised include:

  • Harvest Lakes for LandCorp
  • Vale for Multiplex
  • Newhaven for Stockland
  • Brighton for Ocean Springs
  • Witchcliffe for Aspen
  • Wandi - Mandogalup for SPG
  • Banksia Grove for PRM
  • Burns Beach for Peet
  • Northshore for Stockland
  • Rockingham Waterfront Village for LandCorp
  • Kennedy Bay for Mirvac
  • Austin Cove for SPG
  • Somerly for Urban Pacific
  • Baldivis Town Centre for Stockland

 

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