Ecology and access belong in the same conversation.
A change to habitat or flood-embankment arrangements can also change how people move through a place. Public access needs consideration alongside the environmental design.
Coastal adaptation experience / National Trust
Chyngton Brooks
National Trust experience in planning for a changing coastline, connecting ecology, engineering, access, land and the people who use the landscape.
The starting question
How do you turn an environmental ambition into a project that can be assessed and delivered?
The National Trust’s Chyngton Brooks project in the Cuckmere Valley proposes restoring 42 hectares of land to saltmarsh and mudflat. Its public plans bring habitat restoration and coastal change together with access through a much-valued landscape. That combination makes the project a powerful example of why specialist disciplines need a shared plan.
Alex’s role
Connecting the work.
While working for the National Trust, Alex worked on the project’s design and planning stage, bringing specialist inputs and stakeholder requirements into a coordinated view. The work reinforced the importance of understanding how a decision in one discipline changes the questions facing another.
Decisions and lessons
Where the connections matter.
The route to delivery needs its own plan.
Surveys, assessments, permissions, land arrangements and construction access create work and dependencies before physical implementation can begin.
Development and delivery are different commitments.
A credible plan needs to distinguish the effort required to develop an acceptable proposal from the resources needed to build and maintain it.
The approach it informs
A shared plan for a complex brief.
This experience informs AM’s approach to multidisciplinary projects: define the outcome, expose the dependencies and keep the decisions connected as the design develops.
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