ACD is an environmental consultancy practice registered with The Landscape Institute and The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. Established in 1985, we provide landscape architectural services, arboricultural and ecological consultancy for all forms of development.

The Company offers a specialised service for all aspects of residential development whilst maintaining involvement in park design, historic landscape restoration and conservation issues. ACD is proud to have established a reputation in providing a service that is fast, efficient and responsive. It remains, above all else, a very commercially aware practice.

In the last 12 months, ACD has worked for approximately 70 developers on over 400 projects, through the provision of environmental consultancy services for over 10,000 houses and apartments. Since the formation of the practice, the Company have successfully completed over 3,500 projects across southern and central Britain. Since our inception, we have been responsible for projects as diverse as Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, Shire Park Business Park in Hertfordshire and landscape consultancy to Alexandra Park & Palace in North London.

The Managing Director of the ACD group of companies, Stephen Dale, is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 30 years’ professional experience in both local government and the private sector. John Constable (Senior Associate Director) manages the Malmesbury Office with Helen Selwyn (Associate Director) and a team of Landscape Architects and Ecologists. Our Surrey office is the ACD Arboriculture base with Mark Welby as Director. Annette Wells is the Director of our Southampton office.