2006 DUNOLLIE PROJECT
On our first landscaping project, we worked with West Highland Housing Association and the Argyll and Bute Employability Team to enhance backcourts in WHHA’s Dunollie development and create new pedestrian access routes through estate owned woodlands. Since then, we have worked with children, housing staff, women in refuge, elderly residents, employability trainees and volunteers on projects including community gardens, pocket parks, access improvements, landscaping for social housing developments and helping children to see and appreciate landscape.
SPACES TO PLACES
Some of our clients have benefitted greatly from the services of our two fully qualified landscape architects. Groundlinks is a subsidiary of Community Links Scotland whose aim is to give local people a strong voice in the development of the spaces that most impact on local environment. The Groundlinks team aim not only to help communities realise the potential of forgotten and unloved local spaces but also to involve individuals and groups in the consultation, design and
specification processes right from the outset. The experience of our Groundlinks staff has also meant that they have been able to help RSLs and community organisations develop landscape programmes not only to enhance the local outlook, solve a security issue or improve access, but also as a vehicle for employment training projects which have provided valuable real work and training opportunities for local unemployed individuals.