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Andrew Haines
Postgraduate Dip Landscape Architecture, BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture
Grant Associates
Andrew is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute with 30 years of experience in private and public sectors, working on a diverse range of projects. He excels at managing multidisciplinary teams and delivering complex landscape projects ranging from brownfield urban locations to sensitive heritage environments. Andrew has strong design, technical and communication skills, and is involved in practice administration and management. He has a keen interest in creative ecological and sustainable design. Andrew has previously been a visiting lecturer at The University of Bath.
Patricia Hawes
BASc, L.Arc, PGCE
Mei Loci Landscape Architects / Eden Project
Patricia is a founding director of Mei Loci Landscape Architects. Her expertise lies in the design of public realm, parks and gardens, and heritage settings with award-winning projects completed across the UK, including Lesnes Abbey Woods in London; Penzance Promenade, Cornwall, and numerous town centre regeneration projects across Cornwall. Her work integrates ecology, archaeology, and stakeholder engagement to create meaningful landscapes, focusing on education, well-being, and community involvement. Patricia is also an associate lecturer in garden and landscape design at the Eden Project.
Fiona Heron
BSc (Hons), MSc, Dip LA, MA, CMLI, FRSA
Fiona Heron Design
Fiona is a landscape architect with over 25 years strategic and detailed experience in both public and private sectors including open spaces, squares, housing, sensitive sites and international garden design competitions. Her focus is on place-making and promoting quality external design. She has won urban design awards for both landscape and art. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she has written for the Landscape Journal, is a regular university tutor, a member of the CPD Landscape Committee, Cambridge Quality Panel and speaks at multi-professional training sessions and seminars.
Birgit Hontzsch
Dipl-Ing
Cornwall Council
Birgit is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI) with over 20 years’ experience. She is acting Chair of the Landscape Institute South West Branch and a committee member of the Constructing Excellence Cornwall Hub. After many years in the private sector, she now works in the public sector, supporting delivery of Garden Villages. Her specialisms include Green and Blue Infrastructure, Biodiversity and Climate Change Resilience. She is a member of the Soils Taskforce.
Kate Jeffreys
CEnv MCIEEM
Geckoella
Kate is a Director of Geckoella and an ecologist with over 20 years' experience within both private and public sector. Her fieldwork skills, specialising in bats and botany, provide the grounding for her knowledge of development control and planning across terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The ecology sector is very dynamic at present, and Kate is looking forward to the technical and practical challenges of making policies such as Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery deliver for wildlife and communities, both at the individual site and at the landscape scale.
Sarah Jones-Morris
BA (Hons), PGDipLA, MA UD, FLI
Landsmith Associates
Sarah is a multi-award winning landscape architect, urban designer and director of Bristol-based Landsmith Associates. Her passion is climate resilience, health and wildlife led projects, with experience ranging from rural to urban, small-scale courtyards to urban extensions, early feasibility studies to post-implementation reviews. She is a Design Council expert, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Building with Nature associate, contributes to the citizen-science project Hush City and is the co-director of the global Association of Collaborative Design CIC. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and facilitates workshops with Design West.
Simon Kale
BA (Hons) CMLI
Nicholas Pearson Associates
Simon is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 25 years’ experience in urban and rural projects including those within green and brownfield sites. Work has included site analysis, impact assessment and the design of integrated mitigation proposals. Landscape master-planning and design experience has included new residential, commercial and infrastructure developments from conceptual design to detailed proposals including the successful integration of scheme proposals into sensitive landscape contexts.
Jane Knight
BSc MPhil MLA CMLI
Eden Project International
Jane Knight is a key member of Eden Project creative development and project delivery team. She is a professional landscape architect with more than thirty years’ experience gained working in multi-disciplinary teams in the public and private sectors in UK, USA, Australia and Hong Kong where she has worked on many high impact projects. Jane has worked at Eden Project Cornwall since 2002 and is now responsible for landscape design and development across Eden’s international portfolio and consultancy work which includes projects on nearly every continent. She has an overview of Eden Project Cornwall’s specialist horticulture and operations and brings this experience to EPIL projects. Jane teaches a module on Contemporary Issues to Eden Learning students studying Garden and Landscape Design and sits on the RHS Bursary and Awards Committees.
Martin Knight
BA (Hons) MA CMLI
Studio Knight Stokoe
Martin is a chartered landscape architect, urbanist, and co-founding Director of Studio Knight Stokoe. He is passionate about working collaboratively to create regenerative, inspirational, and beautiful places that delight, and consider the needs of people, nature, and the environment. Over his career, he has developed a diverse portfolio across a variety of project scales and sectors. He is a mentor on the Landscape Institute’s Pathway to Chartership and an Expert Associate for the Design Council.
