“Hönower Weiherkette Nature Reserve” Management and Development Plan: Planning Workshop 1

The first planning workshop concerning the plans for extensive grazing on parts of the “Hönower Weiherkette” nature reserve in northern Hellersdorf was held on 24 January 2017 in the “Haus am Beerenpfuhl” senior center in the Hellersdorf section of Berlin. After a brief and concise presentation from our firm, interested residents were given the opportunity …

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Röhrsdorf-Weida-Remptendorf Scoping Conference

Expansions to 380 kV high-voltage overhead lines between Federal States require approval as part of a federal planning procedure in accordance with the Grid Expansion Act [Netzausbaugesetz]. Typically the first stage at which public interest groups and the general public become involved is the scoping conference, at which the approval authority, the Federal Grid Agency …

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Zukunftsstadt 2030+

  „WELCOME. A region forms its network.” With this motto, the office and surrounding municipalities of Gransee start into the first phase of the competition. The application, designed by FJP, convinced the jury – 51 out of 168 applicants were chosen, one of them being Gransee. After 12 months of intensive work with the residents …

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Framework Nordsteimke

Commissioned by the city of Wolfsburg and in cooperation with Herwarth + Holz (urban planning), Hoffmann-Leichter (traffic planning) and PST (rainwater management), a framework plan for the biggest development area in terms of residential construction is created until Fall 2016. Overall, up to 2.500 new housing units will emerge southeast of the city center within …

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The three-field agriculture system

Situated at the northern edge of the district of Pankow, Blankenfelde-Pankow Botanical Park acts as a transition to the open fields of Berlin-Brandenburg. It is an area of landscape protected as part of a 2014-15 UEP scheme devised to carry out improvements to the ecological potential of landscape conservation areas. To these ends, a three-field …

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Grazing the Hönower Weiherkette

An informative event about the proposed programme of extensive grazing took place at the Bücherwurmschule after-school care centre in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf on 13 October 2015. Conceptually integrated within the overall management and development plans for the landscape conservation area, it aimed to involve the residents and users of the area in the …

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