Lighting Design

In order to offer our clients Lighting Assessments and Consultancy Services; Dragonfly Consulting have formed a partnership with Light Planning and Design Ltd, also known as LightPaD.

We care about and seek to protect our environment, our heritage, the night skies, wildlife, habitat, health and people. Good lighting design enhances safety and improves security, it encourages movement, and encourages people to participate in outdoor working and sports activities. Good lighting design improves our opportunities giving us a higher quality standard of life.

Overuse of poorly considered lighting has rapidly become a global issue. By forming a partnership with LightPaD, our aim is the control of light pollution, daylight for health and enhancing our heritage through the productions of understandable lighting deliverables in support of the application and other technical discipline requirements.

By providing advice from the early stages of a development, we can help our clients inform the design stages, eliminate, minimise or further mitigate current impacts, maximise our clients’ benefits from our work and allow developments to proceed by ensuring projects are compliant with the requirements of Local Authorities.

We can provide a comprehensive range of services and advice from surveys of existing schemes, to design and implementation.

Our Lighting services include:

Lighting impact assessments;
Baseline lighting surveys;
Lighting design and mitigation strategies;
Discharge of planning conditions;
Lighting elements of Environmental Impact Assessments.

If you would like more information about our Air Quality Assessment services please contact us to discuss your requirements

Our Services

Architectural Acoustics

Our Consultancy Team offers a construction review service to assist in the acoustic design of buildings from inception through to construction. During the design phase, potential issues such as room acoustics, speech privacy and reducing the impact of external noise sources are all taken into account.

Commercial & Industrial Development

Our team has worked on projects as diverse as medical facilities, hotels, university lecture theatres, residential houses and flats, music rooms and interview suites. In all instances we ensure that acoustic separation between rooms meets both the regulatory requirements and the standards of the client.

Residential Development

When applying for planning permission for a residential development, it’s likely that a Noise Impact Assessment will be required to ensure noise from external sources is kept within suitable limits. Such assessments are generally formed under the guidance within British Standard 8233:2014.

Wind Turbine Noise

Dragonfly Consulting has been involved in the development of over 200 wind turbine sites and has considerable experience liaising with local authorities to establish their requirements for assessment of applications. We have also been involved in the type approval of new wind turbines coming into the UK.

Construction Management

When applying for planning permission it’s likely that a Planning Noise Assessment will be required. For this you will need an Acoustic Consultant. Dragonfly Consulting can help with your project from single dwellings to developments of 100 properties.

Health & Safety at Work

The Control of Noise at Work Regulations came into force in Great Britain on April 6th 2006. To comply with the regulations every employer must take steps to protect their employees, initially by undertaking a workplace noise assessment.

Air Tightness Testing

In order to offer our clients Air Tightness Testing and Ventilation Testing; Dragonfly Consulting have formed a partnership with Northern Air Tightness Testing Services, ensuring our projects comply with Part L1 and Part L2 of Building Regulations.

Expert Witness & Legal Services

Chris Chittock, Managing Director of Dragonfly Consulting, has extensive experience in the preparation of expert witness services and providing technical evidence for planning enquiries, local authority licensing hearings and the civil courts.

Lighting Design

Good lighting design enhances safety and improves security, it encourages movement, and encourages people to participate in outdoor working and sports activities. Good lighting design improves opportunities giving us a higher quality of life.

Ecological Appraisals

Ecological appraisals are often required to support planning applications to ensure compliance with the Habitats and Species Regulations 2010, and to ensure the client has regard to conserving biodiversity in the exercise of their functions.

Heritage Consultancy

In order to offer our clients Heritage Assessment and Consultancy services; Dragonfly Consulting have formed a partnership with Humble Heritage. Headed by Senior Heritage Consultant Liz Humble, the team at Humble Heritage allow us to offer to our clients an extensive range of heritage consultancy on all aspects of the historic environment.

Air Quality Consultancy

Dragonfly Consulting in partnership with Kairus Ltd has extensive experience in providing monitoring, modelling and impact assessment services across a wide range of projects within the Air Quality sector. With extensive experience with the provision of air quality elements for Environmental Impact Assessments as well as stand-alone air quality projects.

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