Martina Sechi
Associate, Head of Landscape & Townscape Assessment
Urban Design Studio
Martina is passionate about townscape architecture, ensuring her clients’ visions are delivered in a way that complement their settings.
Martina is passionate about townscape architecture, ensuring her clients’ visions are delivered in a way that complement their settings.
Every project Martina creates for her clients is completely bespoke. She arranges assessments to meet your needs and cost goals, establishing the exact requirements necessary for each stage and allowing you to be responsive to planning application changes.
From college buildings to commercial and mixed-use developments, Martina’s property type experience is broad. Clients benefit from the unique insight this offers, safe in the knowledge that her approach to different site contexts and challenges is creative and based on a sound, technical understanding.
Her vibrant personality means Martina loves seeking out opportunities to collaborate with other teams both internally and externally.
After obtaining a degree in building engineering, Martina studied her master’s in landscape architecture, initially pursuing garden design and then quickly finding her niche in master planning and townscape assessment. She is currently an active committee member for the East of England branch of the Landscape Institute.
The landscape team has had extensive discussions regarding the content and viewpoint selections for the LVIA/TVIA and we consider the quality of the LVIA to be high and the conclusions fair and correct.
Award
Most Promising Designer Under 35 in the New Italian Blood Awards
The NIB Prize is an annual award and a precious opportunity for young Italian architects and landscape architects to gather together and promote visibility, dialogues and reflection. The award is a selection of the 10 most promising designers or firms under 35, operating in Italy and abroad. They are ambassadors of high quality which the State should invest in to allow culture, professionalism and Made in Italy to progress and establish a strong presence in our country, in Europe and in the world.
A Tale of Three Cities
Martina Sechi, Associate and Head of Landscape & Townscape Assessment, discusses which barriers lie in the way of “tall” buildings in UK cities.
An integrated approach to landscape and townscape assessment is needed.
A year after the publication of the Planning the Future White Paper (August 2020), it seems the right time to re-evaluate where we are with the professional tools that are associated with the delivery of the planning reform. This is particularly key now that the Environment Bill was updated in September and the Brexit withdrawal process is in full swing.
The eternal puzzle on Green Belt openness
When the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was launched in 2019 the hopes of many landscape architects were dashed on discovering that neither Green Belt ‘openness’, or ‘valued’ landscape were further explained or defined.
Seizing the opportunity to build a distinctive skyline in Birmingham
Introducing a unique customer experience venue to the capital of Wales
Spectacular new student accommodation in the heart of Manchester
The revitalisation of a historic country club
Permission for the second largest residential building in Portsmouth
An award-winning new academy for Stotfold
Identifying, securing and managing a rare farming asset with the right balance of short, medium and long-term opportunities
