Nicholas Pearson BA MA FLI
Director

Nicholas Pearson is Managing Director of the Company, which he founded in 1982.  He started his career with Bracknell Development Corporation and, thereafter, worked for many years on projects in the Middle East and South America. Nicholas is a Chartered Landscape Architect and a Fellow of the Chartered Landscape Institute. With over thirty years professional experience, he has directed a wide variety of projects, including oil and gas developments (Wytch Farm Oilfield Development for BP; Point of Ayr Terminal for BHP Billiton); wind farms (National Wind Power); roads (M4 widening; A303 Stonehenge for Highways Agency); commercial schemes (Sainsbury's plc); residential (Priory Vale, Swindon for North Swindon Development Company) and educational developments (Bath Spa University College).

He has provided expert witness evidence at a considerable number of public inquiries and appeals, and has presented papers at conferences and seminars on landscape planning and design issues.  He has been an External Examiner at Heriot Watt University, and a Member of Council of the Landscape Institute.

 

 

Dr Trevor Turpin BA BSc MSc PhD FCIWEM MCIWM FIEMA CSci CEnv
Director

Trevor Turpin has over thirty years' experience of environmental assessment and management.   He joined Nicholas Pearson Associates in 1986 following a career in local and central government and with Wessex Water Authority where he worked in pollution control for some 10 years.   He became a Director of Nicholas Pearson Associates on its incorporation in 1992 and he has led or undertaken numerous EnvironmentaI Impact Assessments for proposed developments both in the UK and overseas.

He was elected to the Council of the former Institute of Environmental Assessment to represent corporate members in 1997 and now serves on the Professional Standards and Technical Review Committees of the successor Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.   He has lectured at a number of UK universities including the University of Bath where he is a visiting lecturer on the MSc in Integrated Environmental Management.   He is co-author of the best selling Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook:   A Practical Guide for Planners, Developers and Communities (Thomas Telford, 2002).

Simon Bonvoisin BA MSc MICFor MIEnvSc
Regional Director - Tiverton

Simon Bonvoisin, has been responsible for running Nicholas Pearson Associates' Tiverton office since it was established in 1987. Prior to this he was Environmental Officer to BP on the construction of the Wytch Farm Oilfield Development in Dorset. He heads the company's historic landscape and landscape management team having, since 1990, specialised in the conservation, restoration and management of nationally important historic landscapes. He has nearly twenty year's experience of work in this and related fields.

He has advised a wide range of site owners and clients including The National Trust, local authorities, private owners, charitable trusts and the Duchy of Cornwall, in England, Wales and Ireland, and maintains long term working relationships with many of these. He also acts as an assessor and monitor for the Heritage Lottery Fund on individual projects across the United Kingdom.

Paul Jolliffe DipLA MLI
Associate Director

Paul Jolliffe is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over twenty years experience in both private consultancy and local authority. He has extensive experience in undertaking landscape and visual impact assessments, preparing Environmental Statement landscape chapters, and has assisted in master plan preparation for large scale residential developments including for Priory Vale, Swindon, 5500 new dwellings, and Brockworth, Gloucestershire, 1900 new dwellings. On these projects, Paul has acted as landscape architect designing landscape infrastructure for new roads, watercourses and parks, and has acted as environmental project manager overseeing ecological and archaeological interests.

He has prepared proofs of evidence and appeared as an expert witness in planning inquiries. Recently, Paul has been appointed as project landscape architect for the Highways Agency A419 improvements in Swindon, adding to his previous experience as environmental project manager for the M4 J10-12 widening within land. He has experience in urban river restoration, flood defence and waterbody scheme design and has given papers at conferences on this topic. Unusual projects include the elephant enclosure, gorilla island, tropical aviary and play area design and construction for Bristol Zoo Gardens.

Sara Metcalfe BSc DipLD MA MLI
Associate Director

Sara Metcalfe is a Chartered Landscape Architect, with over twenty years experience, and has managed and co-ordinated a wide range of projects for the Company. She has specialist knowledge of the methodology and practice of landscape and visual assessment, both in the rural and urban context, and is committed to the concept of environmental capacity and its potential to guide and inform planning policy. She is a Registered EIA Practitioner with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.

Sara has been involved with the assessment of impact at the site specific level, regional and at the strategic level and covering various types of development ranging from residential to renewable energy schemes and transport routes to commercial development. With this expertise, Sara has prepared and co-ordinated the production of several Environmental Statements, at the same time as being part of the design team. She is currently co-ordinating and managing the Company's input to a number of schemes for the Highways Agency, including the A303 Stonehenge Improvement Scheme, in partnership with design engineers Mott MacDonald.

She has extensive experience if working with the water environment, having been project landscape architect for Wessex Water in the construction of the Blashford Lakes Water Treatment Works, which involved extensive site works to an existing system of gravel workings, based on ecological design principles; preparation of management plans, balancing recreational uses, nature conservation interests and operational requirements, together with preparing designs for a second phase of work, preparation of impact assessment and preparation of a planning application which although locally contentious, achieved permission without the need for public inquiry. Sara has also worked on river systems, both in the practical implementation of improvement works and the assessment of flood-relief options as well as being project manager and landscape architect for the Point of Ayr BHP Gas Terminal and associated pipelines in Wales.

Sara has given evidence at a number of public inquiries and is therefore is experienced at presenting an informed and reasoned professional opinion.

 

 

Simon Kale BA (Hons) MLI
Associate Director

Simon Kale is a Chartered Landscape Architect with a wide interest in the successful and careful design and integration of all scales and types of development into the landscape. He has been the Project landscape architect on numerous schemes set within sensitive locations including Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Conservation Areas and a number of developments within the World Heritage Site of Bath. He has also worked as a Landscape Architect in Australia and New Zealand.

He has extensive environmental, landscape and visual impact assessment experience with involvement in many commercial and infrastructure projects including those within green and brownfield sites, as well as district wide landscape assessments. Work has included site analysis, impact assessment and the design of integrated mitigation proposals.

Landscape masterplanning and design experience has included new residential (The Forum for Crest Nicholson), commercial (Meadowbank Quay for Sainsbury's) and infrastructure developments (Swanage Sewage Treatment Works for Wessex Water) from conceptual design to detailed proposals including the successful integration of scheme proposals into sensitive landscape contexts. Simon has considerable liaison and project team experience with both architectural and engineering professionals during scheme design and implementation.