Lionel Fanshawe

Lionel joined terra firma as equity partner in 1996 from Charles Funke Associates where he was Senior Associate Landscape Architect for over six years. A graduate of Leeds Polytechnic, his experience includes the design and implementation of projects at all scales and in all sectors. He has worked for private practices and public bodies in the UK, USA and New Zealand (where he was Project Landscape Architect for the 1990 Commonwealth Games Village). He is well versed in Environmental Impact Assessment and has frequently appeared as Expert Witness.

Since arriving at terra firma, Lionel has helped the practice to re-establish itself as a major player in the U.K. Landscape profession and has opened up an increasingly international client base. He set up alshamsi terra firma in Dubai in 2006, tf-LAB London in 2013 and terrafirmaLT in Lithuania in 2014.

Lionel is an occasional writer and lecturer on landscape issues and has been involved in the wider profession as an external examiner at the University of Greenwich, Member of the Landscape Institute’s International working group, Chair of its SW Branch and as an annual LI Awards juror.

Lionel has been the LI Representative to the UK Built Environment Action Group Global Future Cities Project and founding member of the Humanitarian Landscape Collective. He is also keenly involved in local community affairs and has been Chair of his local parish council and co-ordinated the production of its Parish Plan; sat on the East Hants District Council’s Architect’s Panel, was a founder member of the South Downs National Park Design Review Panel 2012-2016 and until recently, the NE Hants Design Panel.

He has recently completed a year’s post as Project Director for DEFRA’s Environmental Land Management Convenor for Hampshire, an important initiative for the future of regenerative farming in the UK.