Professor Robert Tregay

Senior Partner

A landscape architect with over 30 years’ professional experience, Robert specialises in strategic land promotion, masterplanning, housing design and protected landscapes. He has extensive public inquiry experience and is an accomplished speaker.

Andrew Harland

Partner

Andrew Harland, partner of LDA Design, is a landscape architect with over 25 years' professional experience. He leads the practice's specialist parks team, which has built a nationally recognised reputation through many successful Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) projects, as well as developing new public parks. He is widely involved in the practice's town centre work in designing and building streets and squares. Andrew is also an advisor to CABESpace and an HLF monitor.

Colin Goodrum

Partner

With over 25 years' professional experience, Colin is a highly skilled landscape architect and environmental planner. He is a specialist in the design and promotion of development, particularly new communities, commercial and infrastructure projects. He heads the renewable energy team, working on over 60 wind farms and other renewable projects in the UK.

Colin has extensive private and public sector experience including container and ferry port developments, rail, housing, commercial and mixed use masterplanning and implementation. Landscape planning and expert witness are his forte and he has appeared at over 60 public inquires for clients. He is responsible for environmental impact assessment, which feeds into masterplanning and renewable energy work across the business.

Colin's commitment to the profession are reflected by his involvement with the Landscape Institute for which he is an advisor to Council, board member, Honorary Treasurer and offers guidance to committees. He was a founding Vice Chair of the Urban Design Alliance.

Neil Mattinson

Partner

Neil is a landscape architect and a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, the professional chartered body for landscape architects. His professional interests lie chiefly in leisure, recreational, commercial and residential sectors and especially in the planning, design and management of both new build and renewal projects in the urban/rural fringe and public realm. He has substantial experience of leading complex and large scale design projects.

He has over 30 years' experience and his career, to date, is 'book-ended' by two landmark regeneration projects. Firstly, in the early 1980s, Neil was a part of the team designing and delivering the Liverpool International Garden Festival, a project undertaken on derelict land as a catalyst for the regeneration of the city. Currently, Neil is leading the practice's design and delivery programme for the London 2012 Olympic Park. The sustainable ethos, which underpins the project, sets it apart from all other Olympic sites and helped London to win the event for the UK. The park will be a beacon and lasting legacy for the East End of the capital.

Bernie Foulkes

Partner

A talented designer, Bernie brings a distinctive blend of creativity energy, enthusiasm and humour to projects. He is the practice urban design leader and advises organisations, including CABE, English Heritage and Yorkshire Forward, on design and regeneration issues.

John Phillipps

Partner

An urban designer, masterplanner and landscape architect with over 25 years' professional experience, John has worked around the world on a variety of projects. He specialises in mixed use schemes; redeveloping and regenerating brownfield sites and urban renewal of city centres and housing areas to meet modern and future needs.

John leads a number of schemes for the practice for SEEDA including the regeneration of East Cowes town centre and waterfront; the West Medina Mills Marine Industry Park; a regeneration plan for Newhaven, a major masterplan for Shoreham Harbour and a regeneration plan for the Daedalus military base. In addition to RDA projects, he is leading a masterplan for a new community including homes, employment, schools, a park and transport infrastructure on the site of a former opencast coal mine outside Sheffield and a 30 year strategic masterplan for the eastern expansion of Cambridge.

Reuse of existing, redundant historic buildings is another of John's specialisms. He has conducted a number of feasibility studies for such conversions including the Cranfield Mills complex in Ipswich, now apartments, retail and restaurants and a dance centre, and the Ice Factory at Grimsby.

Alister Kratt

Partner

Alister is a landscape architect and talented designer with a creative team approach to projects. Specialising in large multidisciplinary schemes in sensitive contexts, Alister, manages projects from masterplan concept to planning and delivery.

Frazer Osment

Partner

Frazer is an urban designer and landscape architect. Working with client groups and communities, his engaging approach ensures the development of creative responses to sites and their contexts. Building consensus and creating momentum for change, he insists that proposals are deliverable.

Richard Burbridge

Partner

Richard is a fully qualified accountant and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has worked in a range of businesses from the agricultural arm of Rank Hovis McDougall to transportation and manufacturing industries, including paper and food, giving him many years' experience managing the finances of large companies. In 2001 he brought these proven skills to LDA Design and has expertly managed an exceptional period of sustained growth, ensuring the practice operates on a sound financial footing and maintaining financial stability.

The high level of business acumen which Richard brings to the practice ensures its operation on an excellent professional level and sound commercial basis, demonstrated by its capability of winning prestigious work and the expertise to control and manage such projects in terms of cost control and management. With Richard providing financial stability and business awareness, other partners are free to concentrate on their professional operations and given the freedom to interact with clients to deliver top quality design and project delivery.