BMD

What BMD does

BMD (Bradley Murphy Design Limited) is a UK-based professional services consultancy specialising in landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. Founded in 2011 by Laura Bradley and Ryan Murphy from a Warwickshire kitchen-table start-up, the firm scaled to 38 landscape architects, urban designers, and ecologists by its tenth anniversary, operating from headquarters at Hatton Technology Park. The firm provides an integrated suite of services including landscape masterplanning, ecology and biodiversity net gain assessments, landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA), arboriculture, soil science, urban design, and green infrastructure strategy for strategic UK residential and mixed-use developments.

BMD's core proposition is the integration of landscape architecture and ecology under a single roof, enabling ecology to be embedded into masterplanning from inception rather than retrofitted. The firm has developed a proprietary design methodology, the HALO model (Hives, Arcs, Links & Organics), which won the Ebbsfleet Garden City Landscape for Healthy Living International Design Competition in 2018 and is used to structure green, grey, blue, and built infrastructure for new communities. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services commissions, won via competitive tender and direct appointment from master developers (e.g., Urban & Civic, Berkeley Group, Taylor Wimpey, Legal & General) and local authorities (e.g., Guildford Borough Council, Chelmsford City Council, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames).

The firm's go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting complex, long-cycle strategic development projects across England. BMD operates within multi-disciplinary design teams alongside masterplanners such as JTP and engineers such as Stantec, with engagements frequently spanning multi-phase, multi-year delivery programmes. The firm has built a track record of industry recognition (Planning Awards, Landscape Institute Awards, Premier Guarantee Excellence Awards) that reinforces its competitive positioning within the UK development sector.

Name

BMD

Legal name

Bradley Murphy Design Limited

Website

https://bradleymurphydesign.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BMD is a UK-based landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology consultancy serving master developers and local authorities on strategic residential and mixed-use developments. Founded in 2011, it provides integrated landscape and ecology services, including its proprietary HALO healthy infrastructure framework.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hatton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services — Landscape Architecture & Ecology: BMD generates revenue through providing a full suite of green infrastructure professional services including landscape masterplanning, detailed landscape design, ecological impact assessments, biodiversity net gain services, arboricultural surveys, LVIA, and construction supervision. Revenue is project-based, won through competitive tender and direct commissions from developers, local authorities, and housing consortia on major development projects. Services are provided across all stages of the development lifecycle from vision and land promotion through planning to detailed design and implementation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

BMD is a professional landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology consultancy delivering integrated green infrastructure services for large-scale strategic development projects across the UK. The firm provides landscape masterplanning, detailed landscape design, ecological impact assessments, biodiversity net gain services, arboricultural surveys, LVIA, and construction supervision from concept through to implementation. Services are sold on a project basis to master developers, local authorities, and housing consortia on multi-year residential and mixed-use developments.

Product overview

Bradley Murphy Design (BMD) is a professional landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology consultancy. BMD offers an integrated suite of services including landscape architecture, ecology and biodiversity services, urban design, masterplanning, green infrastructure strategy, and landscape assessment. The core offering centres on landscape-led masterplanning and design for strategic residential, commercial, and public realm developments. BMD's proprietary HALO methodology (Hives, Arcs, Links, Organics) provides a framework for designing healthy infrastructure in new communities. The firm operates across major UK strategic development sites including Alconbury Weald, Houlton Rugby, Wintringham, and Chelmsford Garden Community, delivering comprehensive green infrastructure from concept through implementation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture Services Concept and detailed landscape design, coordination and implementation of green infrastructure for strategic developments, including parks, public realm, residential developments, and commercial landscapes. Sold as a professional service to master developers, local authorities, and housing consortia.
• Ecology & Biodiversity Services Ecological surveys, Ecological Impact Assessments (EcIA), biodiversity net gain calculations, protected species mitigation programmes, and ecological Clerk of Works services. Delivered by Chartered Environmentalists (CENV) bound by CIEEM code of conduct.
• Urban Design Masterplanning and placemaking services for strategic developments, creating distinctive character and strong community focus through landscape-led approaches.
• Green Infrastructure Strategy Strategic green infrastructure planning including multifunctional green spaces, wildlife corridors, nature recovery networks, and blue infrastructure design.
• Landscape Assessment Services Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA), Townscape and Visual Impact Assessments (TVIA), Biodiversity Impact Assessments (BIA), and heritage interpretation.
• HALO Healthy Infrastructure Model A proprietary healthy-infrastructure design methodology comprising Hives, Arcs, Links and Organics that forms an interconnected web of healthy infrastructure for new communities, applied on masterplanning commissions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Houlton, Rugby: 5,952 new homes, 507 acres of habitat-led infrastructure, 13,850 metres of footpaths across a 20-year delivery programme.
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Legal & General / SkycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019BMD was appointed by Legal & General in 2019 to work alongside Sky to develop landscape plans for Sky Studios Elstree South, a new sustainable film and TV studio. BMD created multi-functional landscape including SuDS features and biodiversity net gain planting. BMD is now involved in expansion plans for Sky Studios North.
• Guildford Borough CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019BMD was commissioned in 2019 by Guildford Borough Council to carry out landscape masterplanning on a hybrid application and design code for Weyside Urban Village. BMD continues to work with the council to design and deliver the first phase of development.
• JTP (Masterplanners)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2018JTP is a masterplanning firm that has collaborated with BMD on multiple projects including the HALO competition entry for Ebbsfleet, Houlton, Wintringham, Marleigh Phase 2, Thornhill Park, Leven Road Gasworks, and Chelmsford Garden Community. The collaboration combines JTP's masterplanning expertise with BMD's landscape and green infrastructure design.
• Ebbsfleet Development Corporation / NHS EnglandcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018BMD led a team with JTP and Peter Brett Associates to win the Ebbsfleet Garden City Landscape for Healthy Living International Design Competition in 2018, managed by the Landscape Institute. The competition was launched by EDC and NHS England as part of the Healthy New Towns programme.
• London Wildlife TrustminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017The London Wildlife Trust was a collaborator on the Leven Road Gasworks masterplan, working with BMD and JTP on identifying opportunities to integrate community and biodiversity within the urban regeneration scheme along the River Lea.
• Berkeley Group (St William)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2017St William (part of the Berkeley Group) commissioned BMD in 2017 as Landscape Architect for the Leven Road Gasworks masterplan in Poplar, East London, delivering 2,800 homes. Berkeley Group operates as the parent/client entity directing project delivery.
• Abbey Barn (Taylor Wimpey)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2017BMD was commissioned in 2017 by Abbey Barn (Taylor Wimpey) to design and deliver a landscape-led residential development at Abbey Barn Park, Buckinghamshire, making the most of inherited landscape and heritage assets.
• Fletcher Priest ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014BMD worked alongside Fletcher Priest Architects on the Waterbeach Barracks & Airfield project from the outset, providing the full suite of green infrastructure services covering landscape architecture, soil science, ecology, and arboriculture.
• David Lock AssociatescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Part of the consultant team on the Waterbeach Barracks & Airfield project, collaborating with BMD on masterplanning a 290-hectare former airfield and barracks site for 8,000-9,000 homes.
• Stantec (formerly Peter Brett Associates)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014BMD worked with Peter Brett Associates (now Stantec) as part of the Waterbeach Barracks & Airfield consultant team. Previously collaborated with PBA on the HALO Ebbsfleet competition entry.
• Urban & CiviccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBMD has been working for master developer Urban&Civic since the establishment of Key Phase 1 at Alconbury Weald, with this working relationship stretching back over more than a decade. BMD provides landscape masterplanning, design, and implementation services across multiple Urban&Civic strategic sites including Alconbury Weald (Cambridgeshire), Houlton (Rugby), Wintringham (St Neots), and Waterbeach (Cambridgeshire).
• Holder Mathias ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHolder Mathias Architects worked alongside BMD and the Buro Happold sustainability team on the Valley Ridge leisure resort project in Suffolk. BMD provided landscape design and assessment services within this multi-disciplinary team.
• Faulkner Brown ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBMD collaborated with project architects Faulkner Brown on the Kingston Leisure Centre project. BMD was instrumental in establishing the site framework and integrating the landscape design with existing constraints for the regeneration project.
• Ptarmigan Land & Countryside (Zest) / Countryside Partnerships L&Q / Halley DevelopmentscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBMD has worked collaboratively for many years with the developer consortium (Countryside L&Q, Ptarmigan Land, Halley Developments) on the Chelmsford Garden Community. BMD is currently preparing Outline Planning Applications for Zones 1 and 2, providing landscape design, masterplanning, and landscape assessment services.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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