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LI Webinar: Thamesmead, Living in the Landscape

Summary

This webinar will explore Peabody’s recently launched framework for landscape and green infrastructure in Thamesmead – “Living in the Landscape”. Thamesmead has a unique landscape – not seen anywhere else in London – it’s the same size as central London and has 5 lakes, 7km of canals and 5km of Thames River frontage.

“Living in the landscape” creates a blueprint for how green infrastructure in Thamesmead can change lives for the better. It sets out five programmes for change (improve waterways, create and preserve wildlife habitat, outdoor education and awareness of the landscape, improve people’s health and well-being and better connectivity) which will recast Thamesmead as one of London’s greenest and most inclusive places.

What delegates will learn:

  • The importance of blue and green spaces in a post pandemic world
  • The positive impacts our parks and waterways have on climate change and our health and wellbeing
  • The challenges around stewardship and caring for these spaces over the long-term

Dr Phil Askew & Neil Mattinson FLI



Dr Phil Askew, Director of Landscape and Placemaking, Peabody 

Phil is a landscape architect, urban designer and horticulturalists.  He has practiced in all these fields and over the last decade acted as an expert client for the Olympic Delivery Authority as project sponsor for the 2012 London OlympicsAs well as at the LLDC for the post Games Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and is now at Peabody in Thamesmead.



Neil Mattinson FLI,  Director, LDA Design Consulting Ltd 

Neil Mattinson Neil Mattinson brings almost 40 years’ expertise as a landscape architect, creating award-winning schemes in the residential, leisure, recreational and commercial sectors. Neil jointly led the masterplanning and detailed design of the 2012 London Olympic Park. He also co-led the Park’s post-Games transformation. He continues to nurture new talent and leads key LDA Design projects, including The Eden Project’s first overseas venture in Qingdao, China, and ‘Living in the Landscape’, a ground-breaking green infrastructure study that puts the environment at the heart of recovery for struggling London new town, Thamesmead.

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