Recent Projects

Producing Buckinghamshire County Council’s new Rights of Way Improvement Plan. The plan responds to the needs of Buckinghamshire county, including significant development and major infrastructure.

A comprehensive analysis of green infrastructure functions and public benefits and stakeholder engagement for Dover District.

Producing green infrastructure strategy for Folkestone and Hythe district, with a comprehensive analysis of green infrastructure functions and public benefits.

Producing a masterplan for The Strand Leisure Park in Gillingham, Medway to guide the future direction of the park, as well as installing a Parkour facility.

Developing a vision document for green infrastructure in Medway, to support regeneration, health, environmental and other needs of the unitary authority.

Supporting Godinton Trust in moving towards a new estate management model to increase biodiversity whilst also enhancing heritage and supporting the visitor objectives of the Trust.

Producing new management plans for these locally important community and wildlife areas – Berengrave Local Nature Reserve and Watts Meadow – involving the local community and supporting new community groups.

Scoping the suitability of potential Local Nature Reserves for Maidstone Borough Council.  Assessing ecological, community and other criteria in order to determine which sites will become Local Nature Reserves.

Face-to-face and online surveys of visitors to Haysden Country Park, to help Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council improve the park for visitors and meet future income generation needs.

Develop strategic green infrastructure framework across thirteen local planning authorities in support of the South Downs National Park Authority Local Plan.

Develop strategic green infrastructure framework across thirteen local planning authorities in support of the South Downs National Park Authority Local Plan.

Developing Activity Plan for Guardians of the Deep lottery bid, to increase engagement and stewardship of the undersea and Marine Conservation Zones in Kent.

Audience development work for chalk grassland restoration project

Setting out a strategic direction for Maidstone’s parks and open spaces to ensure that community, environmental and economic imperatives are met.

Producing integrated management plans for both nature and people, to enable the sites to be both Green Flag accredited and designated as Local Nature Reserves.

Online and face-to-face surveys and other data collation to support Stage 2 submission of Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnership Scheme submission.

Mitigation and monitoring plan to support Canterbury City Council Local Plan to address increased recreation pressure

Mitigation and monitoring plan to support Thanet District Council Local Plan to address increased recreation pressure

Comprehensive access management plan to protect Natura sties from recreational pressure arising

Involvement in all editions of the Kent Countryside and Coast Access Improvement Plan (CCAIP) (Kent’s Rights of Way Improvement Plan) (2007, 2012 and 2018 publications). Stakeholder engagement, research in to users and non-users, literature review and drafting of the CCAIP.

Supporting this community group in Kent to progress with plans to purchase a former orchard so that it can be incorporated into the existing park and provide many benefits for the community.

Audience development for the Colne Valley Regional Park to support the ‘Landscape on the Edge’ HLF Landscape Partnership Scheme.

Developing a community engagement and inclusion strategy to take forward audience development and to ensure the project engages harder-to-reach and under-represented audiences.

Formulating evaluation plan for this £2m Heritage Lottery Fund project to restore and increase engagement and accessibility of Fort Amherst, the foremost defensive site in Chatham. Working with Irene Seijo. www.seijoassociates.com

Assessing strategic green infrastructure needs to support development in Kent to 2031.

Producing green infrastructure strategy for Canterbury district, with a comprehensive analysis of green infrastructure functions and public benefits.

Moving forward green infrastructure planning through devising and implementing an approach to demonstrating green infrastructure functionality across Kent.

Delivering Medway’s new Rights of Way Improvement Plan, including stakeholder and public engagement, surveys and network assessments

Audience development for the Chalk, Cherries and Chairs Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnership Scheme. 

Developing Stage 2 submission for the Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme

Setting strategic direction for Kent’s Country Parks Service to balance need for income generation and fulfilling social and environmental requirements of the service.

Audience development to support the Kent element of the national Plantlife ‘Save our Magnificent Meadows’ project. 

Evidence review and recommendations for taking forward a strategic green infrastructure approach across four east Kent local planning authorities.

Habitats Regulations Screening for this strategic development in Thanet.

Producing a strategic green infrastructure strategy for East Hampshire District Council. 

Options appraisal for future of Pegwell Bay Country Park, a NNR and adjacent to Natura site

Devising assessment framework and carrying out quality of open spaces in Maidstone Borough.