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Alan Corner
MICE, B.Eng, C.Eng
Corner Water Consulting
Alan is a chartered civil engineer with over 40 years’ infrastructure, flood risk, hydrology plus foul & surface water drainage experience in the UK, middle and far east. Working for a UK Water Authority plus international multi-disciplinary consultancies where he has been a technical lead in drainage and flood risk design, delivering solutions for hundreds of residential, commercial and industrial development sites in all flood zones. Also experienced in drainage and flood protection for highways, nuclear facilities, ports and airports. He was Global SuDS Knowledge Leader at Halcrow plus assisted in drafting the National SuDS Standards and The SuDS Manual 2015. More recently undertaking lots of Nutrient Neutral designs – particularly around mitigating or absorbing phosphates from new housing. Alan has been a design review panel member in the Midlands and the Southwest for over 8 years.
Michael Cowdy
FLI MAUD Ba (Hons)
McGregor Coxall
Michael’s passion rests in achieving healthy, smart, green and locally responsive places. With 15 years international experience, Michael adopts a systematic design approach that achieves restorative and engaging outcomes for places. As a Director and Urbanism Leader for McGregor Coxall, he has delivered award winning visions, strategic frameworks, masterplans and public realm projects in the UK, Australia and China.
Len Croney
MBA, DMS, Final Dip PRA, Dip Hort, Cert, ARB
Based in Cornwall, much of Len’s work has been around assisting public bodies to improve the quality of design proposals from developers. This has included writing developer contribution policies and minimum standards of open space and community provision. He worked extensively with Local Authorities through CABE on open space strategies. He has been engaged by individual Local Authorities, Sport England, Play England and Natural England to write policies on standards of Provision, e.g. "Nature Nearby"
Ben Croot
BSc (Hons), MSc, CMLI
LDA Design
Ben is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 17 years’ professional experience. He has worked on a range of development projects, including nationally significant infrastructure projects. He has co-authored technical guidance for the Landscape Institute and regularly acts as an expert witness. Ben believes strongly in design as both a process and an outcome and the importance of understanding place and the wider context to shape a clear and compelling narrative that underpins projects to deliver memorable and cherished places.
Will Day
CMLI BA Fine Art (Hons)
Churchman Thornhill Finch
Will is an Associate at Churchman Thornhill Finch having joined the Bristol Studio in 2017 and has two decades of experience as a landscape architect. With a first degree in Fine Art Sculpture he is interested in the boundaries between landscape, art and architecture and believes that good landscape design should be socially inclusive, environmentally sensitive, technically hardworking and imbued with a sense of wonder. A former Design Council Expert, he believes in pushing designs to go beyond the expected norms and in utilizing natural systems to help meet challenges of today’s world and work within planetary boundaries. He has worked on public realm, residential, healthcare and education projects from inception to completion on site and has detailed technical knowledge and extensive on-site experience both in the UK and abroad including the landscape infrastructure package at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. A keen runner and cyclist, Will believes that walking and wheeling are the best ways to understand a new city and landscape.
Caterina di Garbo
BA(Hons) DipLA
Portus + Whitton Landscape Architects
Caterina is a skilled landscape architect with almost a decade of experience; currently specialising in ecological, regenerative, and permaculture design. She's focused on honing design skills to bring effective and creative solutions to our time of rapid change and in the context of the wider biodiversity and climate crisis. Caterina's work has been primarily based in rural areas, often highly designated and publicly significant sites, which have expanded her professional capacity through unique challenges and learning opportunities.
Marc Dix
Ba Hons Dip LA CMLI
LT Studio Ltd
Marc is a Principal Landscape Architect with 20 years’ experience of designing landscape projects for public realm, residential and mixed use markets. He has experience of high profile schemes in the UK and Asia and recently led on masterplans for Lancaster University Management School, Watchet East Quay Harbour Regeneration Project and the regeneration of Shrewsbury Flax Mill Visitor Centre – the oldest iron-framed building in the world. Marc is a teaching fellow in the University of Bath Architecture Department and at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. An experienced assessor, he is a panel member of the Bristol Urban Design Review and the South West Design Panel. He is a Built Environment Expert (BEE) for Design Council CABE and has been a chartered member of the Landscape Institute for more than 18 years. An influential advocate for external space design and passionate about design quality, Marc is a frequent invited speaker at events and seminars.
David Finch
BA (Hons), BArch (Hons), DipLA, FLI, RIBA
Churchman Thornhill Finch
David has a major interest in landscape and sustainability and has spent his 25 year career transforming external spaces where people and nature can thrive. He is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and has delivered award-winning masterplans and public realm designs in the UK, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. David is a director of Churchman Thornhill Finch based in Bristol and a Design Council Expert.
Jane Fowles
BA(Hons) DipLA (Hons) MAUD CMLI
Chair
Novell Tullett
Jane is a chartered Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and Managing Director of Novell Tullett. Jane is also co-chair of the Bristol Design Review Panel for Design West, an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, and a part-time tutor for the Masters degree in Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Cardiff. Jane’s professional life revolves around the creation of successful places. She believes that being alive to the city context is the key to generating quality and value in the public realm. Well-related spaces bring opportunities for social interaction to local people, and inspiring design can entice life outside with all the wellbeing benefits it provides.
