About Us

 I am a Chartered Landscape Architect and landscape planner with over 25 years’ experience across landscape architecture and land and forestry management.

I work across all aspects of landscape architecture, landscape planning and land management, but I specialise in:

• landscape and visual impact assessments;
• site appraisals;
• landscape design and management;
• contract administration, tendering, and site supervision; and
• parkland and woodland creation and management.

Practical Experience

And unlike many landscape architects and land managers, I’ve spent a lot of time actually doing-the-do rather than just managing other people on the ground. I’ve planted thousands of trees from the hills of Scotland to the Weald in Sussex, I’ve wheel-barrowed Type 1 though tenement stairwells in Edinburgh, laid paving in the Cotswolds, felled acres of wind-blown trees after the Great Storm of 1987, and driven excavators and dumpers, big and small, on sites from water-treatment facilities in London to private gardens in Gloucestershire.

Formal Qualifications

My formal qualifications include a 1st Class Degree in Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economy from the University of Edinburgh (1990-94), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture from the University of Gloucestershire (2003-05).

I became a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute in 2008.

I’m also a member of the Royal Forestry Society and the British Deer Society. And I’m trained and formally qualified to use a chainsaw!

The Real World

As well as formal qualifications, I’m also very commercially aware.

There’s no point in designing a public realm landscape that is beautiful but difficult (and therefore expensive) to build and maintain if what the client wanted was somewhere for the local teenagers to play football. And when a wealthy fund manager wants a croquet lawn and summer house for his estate in the Cotswolds, I won’t design and build him a kickabout.

My reports are thorough and carefully researched, but also succinct – they say what needs to be said (including the things that clients may not necessarily want to hear) without waffling on for page after page. Telling a story sometimes has its place, but it’s not always necessary or helpful. My reports are honest and realistic, but I’ll always outline solutions if I’ve identified issues that need resolving.