Work

• Coastal Tourism Strategy for Wales

  July 2010 | Filed under: Tourism Strategies & Plans

  Working with Hyder Consulting plc, our role here was to summarise current and likely future demand for activity tourism, to review current provision for coastal activities and to contribute to the study recommendations.

• Saltfleetby Underground Gas Storage Facility and Pipeline

  May 2010 | Filed under: Planning

  Our independent assessment of tourism and economic impacts of a proposed underground Gas storage facility at Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire (by Wingas UK Ltd), was used to inform a public enquiry.  The work included assessing the strategic impacts, consulting tourism managers and businesses in the area, reviewing tourism expenditure data and researching the impacts of similar projects elsewhere.

  Our report includes a description of the economic and other impacts of the scheme during construction and operation.

• Isle of Portland Natural Gas Storage Facility and Gas Pipeline

  May 2010 | Filed under: Planning

  Portland Gas Ltd asked us to advise on several aspects of the Environmental Statement that supported a successful planning application to develop the Upper Osprey Gas Storage Facility on the Isle of Portland and associated gas pipeline link to the national gas grid.

  We considered the likely impacts of disruption to holiday traffic; disruption to rights of way and beach access; impacts of the image of Weymouth and the surrounding area as a tourist destination and; impacts on the 2010 Olympic Sailing venue and associated promotion of Dorset and the Jurassic Coast.

• Limestone Heritage in Arnside/Silverdale

  May 2010 | Filed under: Interpretation

  We worked with the Arnside/Silverdale AONB team to produce an access and interpretation plan to support the HLF grant application.  This involved identifying and assessing the limestone heritage features within the AONB, identifying opportunities for interpretation and access improvements and developing a plan under number of themes – ‘walls and boundaries’, ‘lime kilns and industry’, ‘ponds and wetlands’ and ‘improving access routes’.

• Durham Cathedral Heritage Woodlands

  May 2010 | Filed under: Access & Recreation Planning

  To produce our access plan for this project we undertook an audit of physical and intellectual access for a range of audiences.  This included a site visit with a group representing various disabilities.  We also conducted visitor and resident surveys (the latter delivered through the Durham Times and on-line through University College Student Associations), conducted workshops with community groups and consulted Cathedral staff and representatives of existing user groups (canoe club, anglers, rowing clubs, naturalists groups, the Fulling Mill Archaeology Museum and residents in the study area).

  Our plan contained a co-ordinated programme of activity including physical access improvements, new interpretation, education projects (with local schools and other institutions), volunteering projects, training programmes all integrated with woodland and riverbank management plans and delivered by a partnership of landowners, agencies, education establishments, businesses, existing voluntary groups and community groups.  The application was successful.