Landscape Design

HTA’s Landscape team worked closely with planners and community partners to explore how heritage and place identity could shape the future public realm of Chatham Intra. The work focused on how streets, spaces and movement networks could reinforce local character while creating new opportunities for social, economic and ecological growth.

Our landscape input helped define the SPD’s spatial principles, particularly around improving pedestrian experience, enhancing biodiversity and supporting active frontages. The team mapped key assets, thresholds and views that anchor the area’s sense of place — and shaped proposals to reinforce and celebrate them.

A central theme was connectivity: stitching together the fragmented waterfront and high street into a more walkable, welcoming environment. The SPD encourages use of soft landscape and sustainable drainage to reintroduce nature to the urban fabric. It also highlights opportunities for small-scale interventions that can incrementally improve the quality of the public realm while supporting local enterprise and social activity. Through landscape-led thinking, the framework offers a vision for a resilient and accessible high street that grows from its past but speaks confidently to its future.