For almost 30 years tranquillity has been recognised as a significant asset of our landscape, now embedded in the National Planning Policy Framework and used in planning decisions. However, in the 20 years since CPRE and Natural England reviewed this map, much has changed: the digital revolution; greater environmental awareness, economic squeeze, COVID, working from home, and so on. So, do we value tranquillity differently today? We relished the challenge, designing an innova

Since 2012, we have delivered numerous commissions for the Building Standards Division of the Scottish Government, which is responsible for protecting the public interest by overseeing the delivery of safe and compliant buildings in Scotland. Our early research focused on developing and reviewing Key Performance Outcomes used by local authority building standards verifiers, evaluating verifiers’ performance, designing, running and reporting on eight waves of annual customer s