Coleton Fishacre National trust garden; new design for the visitor arrival, on the drawing board.

Armada Way update 2024 civic space redesign in the heart of Plymouth; based on the original postwar Abercrombie concept of a north-south axis to create a pedestrian linear ‘park’; following the lead of PCC in-house urban designers, the new scheme introduces many more new trees more appropriate in species/size/location/technical design than the 1980s scheme it replaces (we make no apology for designing-out the existing trees which were wrong species in wrong places, compromising below ground services), with new more usable spaces, a more floriferous character, upgrades above & below ground, with raingardens to help accommodate climate change. All in collaboration with Studio Agora (architects/lead designer) and supported by other professions with practices local to the region (JUBB engineers/YGSE arborists & ecologists/OCMIS water system designers, among many others) and working for MorganSindallConstruction under Design-Build, whose client is Plymouth City Council. The project has been delayed due to public objections from certain quarters (badly handled by PCC) and some areas have had to be retained as is with obvious compromises, redesign & technical complexity. Local/Regional/National press coverage.

The National Trust Brockhampton opened in the spring of 2022, an Art Council funded Celebration of the Apple in Herefordshire and the world, designed as five overlapping orchard circles (Charlotte & Andrew with Walter Jack Studio, sculpture/seating/art designer). Features on the cover of the 2024 NT Year Book. National press coverage.

The National Police Memorial at the Staffordshire National Memorial Arboretum was opened by Prince Charles in the summer of 2020 to great acclaim (Charlotte & Andrew with Walter Jack Studio, sculpture designer). National press coverage.

Secular Retreat at Chivelstone in the South Hams has won one of the RIBA 2019 National Awards for the UK’s best buildings and the RIBA SW 2019 Regional best house award: commissioned by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture and designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (Serpentine Pavilion and RIBA Gold Medal winner) with Charlotte as the landscape architect. National press coverage.

Tate St.Ives was shortlisted for the 2018 Stirling Prize and won the 2018 Art Fund Museum of the Year amongst many others (architects Jamie Fobert/Andrew the landscape architect)….a sensitive and technically difficult site, we designed the roof ‘garden’ to emulate the local cliff-top flora. National press coverage.

Plymouth School of Creative Art at Millbay has won the RIBA SW award 2016, is very red and also features in the September 2016 Architects Journal (architects FieldenCleggBradley/Andrew the landscape architect)…we designed the externals & streetscape.

Swinhay Mansion near Wootton-under-Edge: parkland-garden-lake-1000s of new trees, featured in BBC’s Sherlock Holmes Series3/episode3 (now re-broadcast, starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman), one of the first Future UK Mansions (Andrew the landscape architect) in National newspapers and RIBA/AA exhibitions.

Charlotte is a trustee at The Sharpham Trust (a charity promoting mental well-being) and continues to promote food provenance and healthy soil with her Tasting the Place art piece. She is involved in fewer projects for the Practice now, to focus much more on the River Erme catchment from Dartmoor to the mouth, part of the steering group (W.A.T.E.R. Wild about the River Erme), promoting water quality, managing citizen science (The Dippers), promoting biodiversity/habitat/soil health in pro-bono work for the community and our landscape projects.

Andrew manages the practice as well as landscape design and evaluation, pro-bono work for the community, is a regular SW Design Review Panel member and has become a member of the The Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society having sailed around Nordkapp, Norway.