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International Women’s Day Interview

Each year Leonard Design proudly celebrate International Women’s Day. In 2020, Leonard Design is planning a celebration of several cultural-led days including both International Women’s and Men’s Day with the theme of Each for Equal. This year to celebrate International Women’s Day there will be events held in both the Nottingham and London offices. We […]
3 months ago
Sheffield Blocks B & C Demolition

Demolition Works Nearing Completion in Sheffield

Demolition woks will soon be completed at Blocks B & C of the Sheffield Heart of the City II masterplan. With some piling works already underway the new development is progressing well on site. Walking past the historic Victorian façade on Pinstone Street it is evident there are works underway. However, the magnitude of the […]
3 months ago

Planning Application Submitted for Former Ironbridge Power Station

Leonard Design on behalf of the Harworth Group plc, the owner of the former Ironbridge Power Station, has submitted an outline planning application to both Shropshire Council and Telford & Wrekin Council as it seeks permission for the 350 acre site’s long-term redevelopment. It has also submitted a separate application to extract up to 1.9million […]
5 months ago

Australian Bushfires: Can We Help in the UK?

Australia needs assistance, the UK is not too far away to help! As you will be aware by now, Australia is being savaged by ferocious bushfires which have burnt nearly 15 million acres already. Putting this into perspective, this is the same as all of Wales and 1/3 of England engulfed in flames. Now with […]
5 months ago

How can businesses combat climate change?

Climate change has firmly been on the agenda recently and it’s easy to see why with extreme weather such as the bushfires ripping across Australia or near record acqua alta levels recorded in Venice last year. Climate change is here and it’s happening. More than two thirds of extreme weather events in the last 20 […]
5 months ago

A Year of Inspirational Travel with the LDAirport

Every year Leonard Design arrange a year long initiative to put the company’s ethos into the hands of the team itself. These initiatives give each employee an opportunity to improve the quality of work or wellbeing within the office. At the beginning of 2019 the LDAirport initiative was launched. Each team member was gifted a […]
5 months ago

Innovative Design Secures Planning for Two Revolutionary Dementia Care Homes

Two pioneering dementia care facilities have received planning permission thanks to the innovative design and specialist knowledge of global architecture firm Leonard Design Architects. The case which identified six “very special circumstances” for the planning approval of the two Church Farm Care Ltd schemes heavily focussed on the intelligent use of architecture, namely its sensitivity […]
6 months ago

Family Action Toy Appeal: Year Two

Following the success of last year’s Family Action Toy Appeal the Leonard Design team have come together to support the amazing charity for a second year. In 2018, we donated a car full of presents to the cause and this year has been even better. Since 2009 Family Action have organised a Christmas Toy Appeal […]
6 months ago

The High Street is Evolving

The high street is dead, or dying, if we are to believe much of the media coverage of the retail sector in the UK. However, Leonard Design are not witnessing a death but an evolution where the high street is evolving by creating strong communities. In 2015, Sheffield City Council announced plans for the Sheffield […]
6 months ago