Catch-Up
2 Jun 2025
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How to Define and Promote a Landscape-Led Approach to Development

As the demand for new housing increases, so does the urgency to restore nature, enhance climate resilience, and create vibrant, sustainable communities. A landscape-led approach provides a holistic, cost-effective solution – placing landscape at the heart of planning and design to achieve environmental, social, and economic benefits while streamlining the planning and consultation process.

Join this Landscape Institute webinar to explore how to define and advocate for a landscape-led approach. We’ll share insights from our upcoming LI briefing, launching at UKREiiF in May, and examine case studies and evidence that demonstrate its benefits.

The session will feature expert speakers and a panel discussion, providing valuable insights and practical guidance. There will also be a Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how a landscape-led approach can deliver more for people, place, and nature.

Learning outcomes

Understand what a landscape-led approach looks like in practice
Learn about its principles and benefits
Gain confidence to advocate for its multiple benefits, delivering value in a cost-effective way.

This webinar will equip you with the knowledge and tools to champion landscape-led development and help shape a more sustainable future.

Speakers

Dr Nick White

Chartered Landscape Architect and horticulturalist with extensive work experience especially in the public and third sectors in the UK and overseas. Work specialisms include horticulture; design and implementation of gardens, urban, natural and heritage landscapes; charity and land management.

Strong advocate for the importance of sustainable and quality landscapes as they are essential for health and wellbeing benefitting all – people and nature.

Carolin Göhler FLI

Carolin is a Chartered Landscape Architect and horticulturalist with extensive work experience especially in the public and third sectors in the UK and overseas. Her specialisms include horticulture; design and implementation of gardens, urban, natural and heritage landscapes; charity and land management.

Carolin is a strong advocate for the importance of sustainable and quality landscapes as they are essential for health and wellbeing benefitting all – people and nature.

Andrew Tempany FLI

A Chartered Landscape Architect, Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Andrew is Landscape Design Director at Stephenson Halliday within the RSK Group. He is a creative, strategic thinker who enjoys finding multi-functional, landscape-led, nature-based answers to our world’s modern challenges and wicked problems.

Over his twenty-two year career, he has delivered a huge variety of projects including some of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK, eco-tourism and green infrastructure strategies and town parks and urban green space regeneration. He has particular interests in green infrastructure, regenerative design and conservation design for some of our most significant historic designed landscapes and parks.

He has also written in the technical press on nature-based and regenerative design approaches. Notable examples include Nature of the City: Green Infrastructure from The Ground Up, which he co-authored with Tom Armour for RIBA Publishing (2020).

Philip Askew

Dr. Phil Askew is Director of Landscape at Peabody, overseeing environmental design across its estates. He leads the regeneration of Thamesmead, using a landscape-led approach shaped by the Living in the Landscape strategy. Formerly, he led the creation of the London 2012 Olympic Park and its transformation into Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, he holds qualifications in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Horticulture. He is a Design Council Ambassador and serves on multiple Quality Review Panels. Dr. Askew also judges for The Society of Garden & Landscape Designers, advises on a Royal Parks project, and mentors through Future of London. His work has received multiple awards and national recognition.