Whilst the landscape associations have much greater efforts to be inclusive in recent months I still get a feeling that old habits die hard.
Take the geographic distribution of their respective landscape awards, for example.
Analysis shows that there are definite patters of concentration for the various schemes.
I have uploaded the data for Marshalls Register, APL and BALI into Google maps - see the live map here.
Whilst one would expect BALI and the APL to show clusters of award winners in the affluent south east, Marshalls, however, are clustered around the industrialised north of England.
What can this data tell us?
I guess we can speculate on the causes for the concentrations. Money and affluence spring to mind but one has to wonder, also, whether there's a marketing element to attracting members in these respective areas...or even a sub-concious favouring for these locations by those who run these schemes?
One thing is for sure. Not one Irish nor Welsh company has won an award in the latest rounds. Neither has there been any awards won between Edinburgh and John O'Groats. West of Exeter down to the tip of Cornwall sees a dearth of awards and the mid-section between York and Edinburgh have only two award winning companies.
Here are the individual maps by association/installer scheme:
Marshalls Register
APL
BALI
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