Understand the landscape before deciding what goes where.
AYG provides landscape-led assessment, strategy and design, bringing practical horticultural knowledge into development decisions from the earliest stage.
⌁ LANDSCAPE PLANNING
△ LVIA
♧ LANDSCAPE STRATEGY
⌁ HORTICULTURE + PLANTING
Landscape input before the layout is fixed.
We help development teams understand a site’s landscape constraints, opportunities and capacity before key decisions are locked in. The result is clearer planning evidence and proposals that respond more convincingly to their setting.
“Good landscape decisions are easier to make early.”
Our Services
Landscape Planning + Feasibility
Early appraisal of landscape constraints, opportunities and site capacity to inform the project brief.
Landscape + Visual Impact Assessment
Clear, proportionate assessment supported by fieldwork and defensible professional judgement.
Landscape Strategy + Mitigation
Practical responses to landscape character, visual effects and long-term performance.
Development Design Support
Landscape advice that helps architects, engineers and planning teams refine layouts early.
Horticulture + Planting Expertise
Planting strategies grounded in site conditions, establishment, management and resilience.
Need landscape input at an early stage?
Selected Projects
Housing Development
Landscape planning · LVIA
Landscape Assessment
Analysis · Strategy · Advice
Private Garden
Design · Planting · Establishment
From a planting plan to a development site.
The scale changes. The landscape thinking does not.
Practical horticultural experience informs how we assess, design and plan landscapes at every scale.
Latest Insights
What happens when we plan 200 metres beyond the site?
Looking beyond the red line can reveal better landscape decisions.
Hedgerows are infrastructure too.
Field patterns, habitat, water and a strong sense of place.
What can this landscape accommodate?
Landscape capacity should inform design from the outset.
Meet the director
Landscape expertise informed by practical experience.
AYG is led by James Comiskey, a landscape architect and consultant with more than twenty years of experience in landscape design, horticulture, construction and planning-led landscape work.
Working on a site?
Bring landscape thinking into the conversation before the layout is fixed.
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