Pro Landscaper: Chris Wellbelove on Planning and Delivering Projects on Sensitive Sites

Blakedown’s Managing Director, Chris Wellbelove, features in the September edition of Pro Landscaper as part of its Ask The Experts panel, discussing the considerations involved when working on sensitive sites.

Whether sensitivities are ecological, environmental, historical or architectural, their impact can extend well beyond the area being protected. Requirements around archaeology or root protection, for example, can influence access, machinery, material storage, sequencing and the wider programme.

Chris considers why these requirements need to be understood from the outset and built into the planning and delivery of the project, with realistic allowances for specialist input, hold points and unexpected discoveries.

He also looks at the importance of ensuring site teams understand what is being protected and the procedures that need to be followed throughout construction.

Read Chris’s full Ask The Experts article in Pro Landscaper.