Urban planning and landscape architectural services

Tender description

This project is a commission to undertake a unique and major cross border research study in the Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) and Donegal County Council (DCC) Areas. The research concept follows a series of dialogues between DCSDC, DCC in terms of the need to examine the physical land-use implications of Brexit upon the North-West Region of Ireland. The commission will ask how landscape can be an agent in the shaping of the cross-border City Region. The commission’s starting point is the recognition that the North West City Region of Derry and Donegal has international and cross-border significance in the context of Brexit. It acknowledges that it will be part of the only land border between the UK and EU. This project is a commission to undertake a unique and major cross border research study in the Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) and Donegal County Council (DCC) Areas. The research concept follows a series of dialogues between DCSDC, DCC in terms of the need to examine the physical land-use implications of Brexit upon the North-West Region of Ireland. Whilst focusing on the physical land use matters, implicit within this research will include in-depth economic, social/demographic, political and social analysis which will be key to informing the research outcomes and outputs. The commission will ask how landscape can be an agent in the shaping of the cross-border City Region. The commission’s starting point is the recognition that the North West City Region of Derry and Donegal has international and cross-border significance in the context of Brexit. It acknowledges that it will be part of the only land border between the UK and EU. The outcomes of the project will be presented in a final workshop to receive the final research report, namely “An Atlas of a City-Region” which is aimed at assisting a range of stakeholders including government (local and central), private sector and citizens. This publication will be a comprehensive research document which will provide a detailed analysis and a practical ‘tool-kit’ for how key local and central government stakeholders (NI/ROI/UK) can respond to the economic, social, physical and practical challenges that arise from the Brexit process post 2019. The commission will draw upon international best research practice and provide a key reference tool to policy and decision makers that have a role and influence upon the NW Region.