UBU Design at UKREiiF

Claire Hunt, who heads up UBU Design’s Birmingham office, was commissioned to do this fantastic sketch for the Landscape Institute to use for their briefing at the UKREiiF conference, which is taking place in Leeds from 20th – 22nd May. The theme was – Maximising Value from Built Development: A Landscape-Led Approach is Essential for People, Place and Nature. This makes a powerful case for putting landscape at the centre of development and creating places that support health, biodiversity and community.

Claire loved capturing the wide range of impact Landscape Architecture makes — from climate resilience to everyday joy.

Landscape-led development results in many positive outcomes: improving community health, resilience and biodiversity, while creating long-term economic and social value. The Landscape Institute are urging professionals across planning, development, and policy to engage chartered landscape architects’ expertise from the outset to meet climate, nature, and housing goals.

The briefing is a strong call to industry — from strategic landowners to local planning authorities, developers to infrastructure funders — with a clear message: placing landscape at the heart of the planning and build process will unlock long-term value.

“Buildings are just one component of new places” says Carolin Göhler FLI, President of the Landscape Institute. “It is the landscape that determines the long-term desirability, distinctiveness and enduring value of a place.”