- To deliver our vision and build on 30 years of landscape consultancy with attentive service to our clients a prime objective, and to continue to provide market leading consultancy advice in all areas of landscape design and planning and to provide specialist advice in the particular areas of sport, leisure, housing and heritage.
- To provide a professional, cost effective, and imaginative consultancy service which seeks to understand client’s aspirations and help them deliver their projects on time and to budget in a sustainable way.
- To inspire our clients and the public they serve, by the creation of design solutions that exceed expectations, improve the human spirit, the public realm and biodiversity.
- To continually learn from the natural world, other practitioners, and the scientific community about new and effective techniques for sustainable design and management.
- To provide our staff with a challenging, respectful and exciting place of work.






Milieu Landscape Design (MLD) is an award winning practice with its origins dating back to 1983 when Ian Clare opened an office in Liverpool. The current company was established in March 2009 following the transfer of the landscape team in Runcorn from Bureau Veritas. With experience across a broad range of landscape topics and particular skills in sports developments, social housing, historic landscapes and landscape planning the company provides a personal service to a wide range of clients in the public and private sectors from its office in the Ribble Valley nr Preston