LAND AND PEOPLE
CONSULTANCY
FOR PROJECTS
THAT CHANGE
THE GROUND
PEOPLE LIVE
ON.
Resettlement, livelihood restoration, heritage, programme and cost — carried out in consultation with project affected people, and documented to a standard that stands up to lender scrutiny.
WHY IT SITS WITH US
A DESIGN
PRACTICE, NOT A
REPORT FACTORY
Most resettlement work is written by people who will never design what replaces what was lost. We do both. The same team that plans a household's move can draw the house, the classroom and the water point at the end of it — which means the plan is tested against what can actually be built, and the budget it will actually take.`
That combination is why mining and infrastructure clients in South Africa and Zambia bring us in early. Land and People is not a sideline to our architecture — it is half of what the studio does.
01
LAND & PEOPLE
Resettlement planning and livelihood restoration for project affected people. Census and asset surveys, entitlement frameworks, replacement housing design, and monitoring against the plan once people have moved.
Resettlement action plans
Livelihood restoration programmes
Community consultation and grievance process
Replacement housing and settlement layout
02
HERITAGE CONSULTANCY
Heritage impact work for sites where the past is part of the ground. We assess what is there, what it means to the people around it, and how a project proceeds without erasing it.
Heritage impact assessment input
Graves and cultural sites protocols
Built heritage adaptation and reuse
Authority and stakeholder liaison
03
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Principal agent and programme management from first appointment to close-out. Twenty years of design and ten years on construction sites, applied to keeping a project honest about its own timeline.
Principal agent appointment
Programme and contractor coordination
Site supervision and quality control
Close-out and handover documentation
04
COST ASSESSMENTS
What a project will cost, said plainly and early. Replacement cost studies, compensation valuations and build budgets prepared so that a board can make a decision on them.
Replacement cost studies
Compensation framework
Order of magnitude build budgets
Feasibility and options comparison
HOW WE WORK
LISTEN, RECORD, PLAN, VERIFY
STEP 1
ON THE
GROUND
We meet the affected households where they live, and we listen before we propose anything.
STEP 2
RECORD PROPERLY
Census, assets, land use and livelihoods, documented so that entitlements can be defended later.
STEP 3
DESIGNED, NOT DESCRIBED
The replacement is drawn and costed by the same team, so the plan is buildable.
STEP 4
HELD TO ACCOUNT
Monitoring after the move, against the commitments actually made.
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START A CONVERSATION
BRING US THE
SITE, THE
SCHEDULE
AND THE
PEOPLE IT
AFFECTS.
We will tell you plainly what the work involves, what it will take, and where we would bring in local expertise alongside our own.
