Sustainability
Properly sustainable trails co-exist with land use in a symbiotic partnership.
It is now understood that, when properly designed, trails add value to places, landscapes and habitats. Use of the trails connects users to the land while enhancing a "sense of place". With careful and sensitive design, trails resolve, rather than create land management issues, becoming positive assets to the area in which they are sited. This can only be achieved by developing a full understanding of each project, it's potential user groups and how the existing landscape is already used. The trail must fit into this macrosystem without disturbing or impacting unduly on anything. To this end, full and effective consultation is carried out to ensure complete understanding of the implications of the project. Dafydd has a very clear and effective series of methodologies, which he has developed over many years experience of trails design.These are tailored to the individual project, then strictly applied in the planning, consultation and construction stages, ensuring that all elements of the project are given their due attention and care. The construction phase is managed within a rigorous series of guidelines, ensuring consistently high standards of workmanship and care of the surrounding environment, both during and after construction. Because of this approach, project costings are effective and fair. In this way, Dafydd ensures that the right kind of trails are built in the right places, within a framework for sustainability. |
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