Programme

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Landscape Institute South West CPD Day + AGM
Resilient Landscapes: Multifunctionality and Wellbeing
Thursday 4th
May 2017
PROGRAMME
10:30 - Arrival for COFFEE
11:00 - Introduction: A Perspective on Resilience
11:15 - Regional Green Infrastructure: Shelly Dewhurst, West of England
Partnership
11:50 - Catchment Based Approach and Natural Flood Management in
the Bristol Avon Catchment: Emilie Graille, Wessex Water
12:25 - Annual General Meeting of the LISW, including a presentation on
a vision for the Landscape Institute by Dan Cook, LI’s Chief Executive
Officer
13:00 - LUNCH
13:45 - Infrastructure Planning for Cycle Networks – the Dutch
Approach: Rachael Cox, Witteveen + Bos UK Ltd
14:15 - Green Infrastructure Action Plan for Pollinators: Jo Wall & Tim
Wrobbleski, TACP Landscape Architects
14:45 – Exploring Health through Landscapes: Richard Tisdall, Tisdall
Associates
15:15 - TEA/COFFEE
15:30 - Public Art, Belonging, Connectivity and Wellbeing: Tom
Littlewood, Ginkgo Projects
16:00 - The Edible Landscape and its Effect on Wellbeing: Sara Venn,
Incredible Edible Bristol
16:30 - Discussion and Questions
17:00 - Closing Address: Dan Cook, Chief Executive Officer, Landscape
Institute
17:30 - LI Awards Exhibition and Evening network event
Note: this part of the day is a separate, free to attend event.
19:30 - End

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Resilient Landscapes: Multifunctionality and Wellbeing
Landscape Institute South West CPD Day + AGM
Thursday 4th
May 2017
Speaker Biographies and Notes on Presentations
Shelly Dewhurst, West of England Local Nature Partnership (WENP)
Shelly Dewhurst is the Manager of the West of England Local Nature Partnership
(WENP). In her role as partnership manager, Shelly drives forward the partnership by
overseeing a number of multi-disciplinary working groups established to embed the
value of nature into decision making. Originally educated in Environmental
Management and Sustainability, Shelly has been working for over a decade in the
environmental sector and is passionate about delivering high quality places. She
previously worked for the UK Green Building Council, where she developed a series
of accredited training courses entitled The Green Building Series, technical
masterclasses as part of London 2012 and an online portal for built environment
sustainability resources. Shelly is currently part of a small working group developing
a Green Infrastructure strategy for the West of England.
Presentation
The importance of identifying and investing in our strategic regional GI corridors. How
this can be embedded into decisions for spatial planning.
Emilie Graille, Wessex Water
Emilie is a fluvial consultant with Wessex Water and works as a Catchment
Coordinator in the southwest. Previously, Emilie has worked in France as a wetland
technician to create a wetland inventory in the Ardennes area, as well as develop
flood protection water-management programs across watersheds.
Presentation
Presentation of the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership role: partnerships drive cost-
effective practical delivery on the ground, resulting in multiple benefits including
improvements to water quality, enhanced biodiversity, reduced flood risk, resilience to
climate change and greater community engagement with their local river. Partnerships
provide a catalyst to attract additional funds and to date some have levered up to 8
times the initial investment. Read more about Defra's Policy Framework behind the
Catchment Based Approach.
Rachael Cox, Witteveen+Bos UK Ltd
Rachael is a landscape architect with an international background in communications,
marketing and programme management which has given her unique insight into
setting up Dutch engineering firm Witteveen+Bos’ first UK office in London in late
2015. As part of a small design led team, Rachael and her colleagues design resilient
infrastructure and active travel within the urban realm.
Rachael’s work at Witteveen+Bos UK focuses on connecting people with their
environment through sustainable design, active travel and resilient interventions in the
wider landscape. She has a unique experience in engagement and leads engagement
programmes with engineers and community stakeholders in England and Scotland to
support and promote active travel and resilient infrastructure. Rachael engages with
local communities and schools and has written papers on active travel within
communities to challenge and engage with them on their active travel provision and
actively campaigns for improved cycling provision for children.

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Presentation
Rachael will be discussing how Witteveen+Bos UK use the Dutch approach to
infrastructure planning resulting in multi-functional, resilient infrastructure solutions
from small cycle interventions to large-scale network solutions. Using UK and
international examples, Rachael will discuss how Witteveen+Bos UK Ltd approach
cycle infrastructure design using the Dutch integrated approach which incorporates
vision, process and systems to result in multi-functional, resilient solutions.
Jo Wall and Tim Wroblewski, TACP
Jo is a Director of TACP (UK) Ltd, an environmental consultancy which focuses on
landscape architecture, ecology, landscape management and environmental co-
ordination, based in South Wales. She has been a chartered member of the
Landscape Institute for 26 years and is a Practitioner member of the Institute of
Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). She is a CEEQUAL assessor
and promotes environmental excellence on all projects. The interdependency of the
science and art of landscape has always been important to her work and whilst
working in Southern Africa she gained a Field Guide licence for South Africa and
Botswana
Tim is an Environmental Planner for TACP (UK) Ltd. He is a Practitioner Member of
IEMA and has a background in the analysis of environmental data using Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) to find populations across Africa which are most
vulnerable to climate change. Most recently, he has worked on major infrastructure
schemes across Wales and England and led projects in South Wales to tackle
landscape crime and build relationships and understanding between environmental
and landscape professionals and hill farmers.
Presentation
The Green Infrastructure Action Plan for Pollinators in South-east Wales (GIAPP) formed a
component of Pollinators for Life; funded by the Welsh Government’s Nature Fund supporting
landscape-scale projects to address the decline in biodiversity and provide benefits to the
economy and communities. The presentation will describe the GIAPP’s aim to produce a
long term Action Plan for publicly-owned land across Monmouthshire, Blaenau-Gwent,
Caerphilly and Torfaen, focusing on how public organisations can embed sustainable
management principles into their daily activities.
Richard Tisdall, Tisdell Associates
Richard Tisdall is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute and Member of the
CIEEM, with landscape experience in Local Authority, Commercial Development, and
Private Practice. He is currently MD of Tisdall Associates, a registered practice of the
Landscape Institute. Building upon a platform of Sustainable development, in order to
understand more fully the impact landscapes can have on physical health and mental
wellbeing, he was granted a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of
Liverpool, undertaking original research into the effects of landscapes on
psychological distress. He is one of the co-authors for the Landscape Institute’s
publication “Public Health and Landscape: Creating healthy places” and has spoken
at conferences in Europe and the UK. By researching and interpreting the scientific
evidence base, Tisdall Associates have developed design assessment models which
they use to promote health and wellbeing in the design of Green Infrastructure, Parks
and Open Spaces; developing landscape strategies embracing Landscape, Amenity,
Biodiversity and Health. In so doing they have extended the contribution landscape
architects can make to the delivery of truly sustainable development, and the
prevention and treatment of physical and mental illnesses in our communities.

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Presentation
Exploring Health through landscapes: How do we see GI, Parks and Open Spaces?
Do we have the right paradigm? This talk will provide a brief overview of an
alternative paradigm, and increase our perception of the value Landscape Architects
can bring to society through our work.
Tom Littlewood, Gingko Projects
Tom founded Ginkgo Projects in 2001 after having led the arts charity Independent
Public Arts. Originally a landscape architect he broadened his practice to encompass
the concepts of linking cultural planning and placemaking in the mid 1990’s. He has
wide and grounded experience in generating and leading creative projects that
integrate art and creativity as a key element of environmental, architectural and
regenerative schemes.
Presentation
Collaborating with artists to create multifunctional people focussed public spaces:
An exploration of the role and ways in which artists can help develop socially engaged
public spaces that promote a sense of belonging, connectivity and wellbeing.
Sara Venn, Incredible Edible
Sara is a Professional Horticultur(al)ist, plantswoman, gardener, garden writer, food
activist and self confessed plant nut! Sara moved to Bristol having spent a lifetime
growing for large urban regeneration projects, historic landscapes and gardens, RHS
Flower Show gardens, garden designers and landscape architects as well as
individual gardens and gardeners. In January 2014 Sara founded Incredible Edible
Bristol, which aims to teach growing skills, enable people to be outside even in the
urban environment and grow food that is accessible to all for free.
Presentation
Edible Landscape and its effect on wellbeing: Looking at how Incredible Edible Bristol
works with communities to affect changes in the landscape whilst working with people
to ensure a healthier landscape means healthier people. The presentation will look at
several people Incredible Edible Bristol work with and the positive effect this has on
their health, as well as how including people, young and old, in decision making,
empowers them to be more confident both in themselves and in their communities.

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Attendee List
Resilient Landscapes: Multifunctionality and Wellbeing
Thursday 4
th
May 2017
Attendee From Attendee From
Michele Lavelle 4D Landscape Design Michael Cowdy McGregor Coxall
Cynthia Filipiak ARUP Placemaking Tim Linnington National Trust
Matt Jackson ARUP Placemaking Liz Bingham Natural England
Kathryn Ball Barton Willmore Sarah Manning Natural England
Paul Corfield Barton Willmore Neil Williamson Neil Williamson Associates
Sha Li Barton Willmore Eleanor Hall Nicholas Pearson Associates
Richard McWilliam Barton Willmore Nicola Greaves Nicola Greaves Design
Caroline Roe Barton Willmore Loic Caron Novell Tullett
Mark Cowell Birmingham City University Simon Lindsley Novell Tullett
Nicolette Smith Bristol University Agnieszka Nancholas NPS Group
Richard Goldthorpe Bristol City Council Neil Furber Pleydell Smithyman
Agata Szacilowska CH2M Rhea Parkes RAE Limited
David Finch
Churchman Landscape
Architects Rivka Fine RFL Consultants
Daniel Evans Clifton Emery Design Ltd Cheryl Firkins RPS Planning & Development
Clare Van Someren Clifton Emery Design Ltd Angela Bence-Wilkins South Gloucestershire Council
Amanda Neal
Cornwall Environmental
Consultants Alison Brown South Gloucestershire Council
Graham Sansom
Cornwall Environmental
Consultants Rachel Fry South Gloucestershire Council
Sarah Foque East Devon District Council Mark Pumphrey South Gloucestershire Council
Jane Knight Eden Project Andrew Sanders South Gloucestershire Council
Mark Robertson EGD Landscape Architects Dilly Williams South Gloucestershire Council
Ian Simkins experiemics Isabelle Carter Stride Treglown
Roger Worthington Forestry Commission Flo Marshall Sustrans
Christina Edge
Freelance Landscape
Architect Garth McWilliam The Landmark Practice
Catherine Haigh HAB Housing Ross Kennerley The Woodland Trust
Alexandra Pick Hanson UK Chris Hancox Urban Perspective
Jenna Counsell Land Use Consultants Leon Bryant Waterman Group
Maria Grant Land Use Consultants Nigel Albon White Young Green
Alan Kerr Land Use Consultants Amanda Bonnefin
Sally Marshall Land Use Consultants Ian Clark
Katie Norris Land Use Consultants Frances Russell
Ed Tarratt Land Use Consultants
Cont….

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Adrian Winstone LISW Committee Chair
Christine Tudor LISW Committee Branch Rep
Claire Hancox LISW Committee Secretary
Sarah Jones-Morris LISW Committee
Rachel Howlett LISW Committee
Holly Birtles LISW Committee
Clare Billany LISW Committee
Agnieszka Nancholas LISW Committee
Many thanks for your attendance today. Please contact us with your thoughts on the
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