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GreenBlue Urban had the opportunity to be a part of an award-winning estate regeneration scheme in Hackney, London, which has won the prestigious New London Architecture Mayor’s Prize and a RIBA National Award. The podcast with Lizzie Le Mare from Tibbalds Planning Consultancy highlights a number of key opportunities and challenges when integrating high-quality landscape to connect existing and regeneration sites.

In this podcast we had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Julia Baker, Biodiversity Specialist at Balfour Beatty, on the importance of biodiversity net gain and the changing legislation and policy to support its implementation.

It was an immense pleasure to speak with the Director of the Urban Design Group, Robert Huxford. Robert and the wider UDG team, including their patrons have worked tirelessly for the past forty years to raise the awareness of the importance of urban design and to engage disciplines from engineering to landscape architecture in the advancement of quality places.

Discussing SUDS in Greener Grangetown, Cardiff, with Ian Tetherington.

Valuing our Future Landscape with Adam White by GreenBlue Urban

In this podcast interview, Sharon provides an overview of the particular role Arbs play across the public/private sector divide and gives a view as to the future of her industry. As we can tell from the interview, Sharon is passionate about the profession and hopes to encourage young people to consider a career working to secure the long-term health of our canopy.

In this interview with John Parker of LTOA we discuss the need to face the challenges of below ground constraints head-on. What do we know about and how can we overcome situations where the ‘ideal’ tree pit design cannot be implemented?

We were delighted to be able to grab a few minutes with arguably one of the most forward-thinking and enthusiastic Head of Highways in the capital.

In this latest podcast interview we had the pleasure of speaking to founder and director of Churchman Landscape Architects, Chris Churchman, on the impact urban tree planting can have on mitigating pollution.

We had the privilege to talk with Tom Armour, Director of Landscape at ARUP. Tom has been instrumental in promoting the green infrastructure agenda across the organisation and bringing a unique, creative and most importantly, a holistic approach to landscape architecture practice within Arup.