The Terra Firma Consultancy is a leading firm of Chartered Landscape Architects based in the rural market town of Petersfield within the officially designated East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and proposed South Downs National Park . The Practice is situated just one hour from Central London, and 15 minutes from the historic channel port of Portsmouth (see map on contact us page).
Launched by ex-Portsmouth City Chief Landscape Architect John Wigham in May 1985 and since 2000, under the leadership of former partner Lionel Fanshawe, the Practice has gone on to secure the highest reputation for its standard of work across the entire spectrum of Landscape Consultancy Services, from Environmental Impact Assessment, Planning and Design, through to supervision of Project Implementation and subsequent Landscape Management.
The scope of the Practice's work engages in every sector; private estates and gardens, upmarket flats and houses, prestigious corporate headquarters, health and community care complexes; sports and leisure centres, school, college and university buildings, heritage schemes, retail schemes, industrial and office complexes, public parks and open space, theme parks, urban streetscape, waterside, inner-city action programmes, community initiatives etc.
The Practice won the 2004 Local Government News Street Design Awards for best 'Home Zone' and runner up for best 'Waterside' schemes for projects completed in Portsmouth and Paddington.
Terra Firma is a Landscape Institute Registered Practice, a Law Society Registered Expert Witness, a Member of the Urban Design Group and an Associate of the Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment. The practice is a Registered Limited Company, has obtained Investors in People Status and is Quality Assured to ISO 9001 (2000).
Terra Firma is currently term consultant to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and Leonard Cheshire Homes, a regular appointee of many leading developers, a partner in the Algiers and London based Afrimed Group and has an Associate Office in Lebanon .
In January 2006 an office was opened up in Dubai ; Alshamsi Terra Firma LLC.
The firm has now moved to bigger offices across town in Petersfield.
