climate-resilient-landscape-design-contracts.md

title: Climate-Resilient Landscape Design Contracts excerpt: date: 2024-03-27T14:16:15Z modified: 2025-07-23T11:16:20Z file_type: md permalink: clauses/climate-resilient-landscape-design-contracts.html wpid: 2061 status: publish type: clause jurisdiction:

• England & Wales maintenance-status:
• Not maintained practice-area:
• Construction
• Real estate and property sector:
• Real estate eleventyComputed: clause_child_name: "Edgar's Clause" clause_summary: Insert a clause into landscape architect appointments and/ or building contracts requiring the appointee to utilise the available open space in an environmentally efficient manner. clause_last_updated_date: 2022-06-17 layout: layouts/clause.njk

Climate-Resilient Landscape Design Contracts

Child’s name

Edgar's Clause

Summary

Insert a clause into landscape architect appointments and/ or building contracts requiring the appointee to utilise the available open space in an environmentally efficient manner.

What this clause does

This clause promotes nature based solutions and biodiversity in landscape architect appointments and/ or building contracts, on land that might otherwise be used in a carbon intensive or unsustainable way. To be fully effective, the use of this drafting should be aligned with the development of laws/ planning regulations around habitat ‘zoning’ to encourage habitat continuity and species corridors across the landscape.

Clause Content

[Drafting note: Capitalised terms relate to either a defined term in this clause or a defined term in the main agreement that this clause is designed to be inserted into.]

1. Design

1.1 The Consultant shall ensure in so far as possible and in accordance with the law that in the design of the Landscaped Area:

1.1.1 [a minimum of [●]% of the Landscaped Area shall consist of Native Flora [typical of [●] habitat]];

1.1.2 [only Native Trees are specified for use];

1.1.3 [a maximum of [●]% of the Landscaped Area consists of Hard Landscaping];

1.1.4 [habitats for [●] species are [maintained][enhanced] as set out in the [●] [Ecology Report dated ●]];

1.1.5 [insert any additional planning conditions or site specific landscaping conditions relating to environmental management].

1.2 The Consultant shall collaborate with the other Professionals to ensure that the Development achieves a Biodiversity Gain of at least [10]% which will be maintained for at least [30] years after the Development is completed.