Landmarks Planning Strategies Ltd. facilitates heritage projects or projects seeking to establish community landmarks.
We will work with you to understand your project’s connection to community and identify challenges to secure the success of your project and of your community.
Landmarks offers professional planning services that bring governments, businesses, and citizens together to improve our communities’ housing, heritage, tourism, climate change adaptation, culture, and many other critical matters. We will work with you to ensure the success of your project; aligning your interests with the interests of your community.
We have specialised knowledge and experience in the technical and ethical standards of heritage planning and evaluation. We will guide your heritage project toward a successful outcome; ensuring that any interventions are informed by an in depth understanding of the historic place.
Landmarks offers services in heritage interpretation and education. Heritage interpretation reveals meanings and relationships of cultural interest to the public, through direct experience with a landscape or site. Education is a powerful tool to build community support for policies and projects and to develop public understanding of community, planning, and conservation.
”“Your determination and genuine interest to enhance the quality of life here in our region is an admirable example for us all.”
Mike Savage, Mayor of Halifax Regional MunicipalityIn reference to Seamus’s leadership in obtaining a National Historic Site designation for Melville and Deadmans Islands
”"The Friends of Schmidtville hereby bestow this award of Heritage Excellence for the dedicated and invaluable contribution to the preservation of Schmidtville in drafting the Heritage Conservation District plan and working with the community"
Seamus McGreal is Principal with Landmarks Planning Strategies. He is a senior planner (MCIP, LPP) and a heritage professional (CAHP) with over 20 years of experience in undertaking increasingly complex planning and heritage projects. He has worked with all three levels of government and non-government organizations. Seamus has led major planning projects, including the implementation of community plans, programs, and Heritage Conservation Districts.
Seamus currently serves as President of the Atlantic Canada Association of Heritage Professionals: a society dedicated to promoting the value of heritage conservation and to maintaining principles and standards of practice for heritage consultants in Atlantic Canada.
His most recent professional awards include:
