Robyn Butcher

Robyn is Associate Director at terra firma and has been with the company for 22 years. She has recently completed work on the BAi360 vertical pier public realm on Brighton seafront with BHCC and Marks Barfield which completed on site in the summer. Current projects include: the Hoe Valley Free School, a secondary free school and leisure centre with extensive outdoor sports facilities and national standard 400m running track in Woking; the Green School for Boys, a new secondary school in Isleworth; a new extension to Princes Mead School at Worthy Park House, a listed building near Winchester; a secondary free and SEN school in Twickenham on the Richmond College Campus and an SEN primary school in Croydon. Robyn has jointly worked on a Strategic Development Framework for Houghton Regis in Central Bedfordshire with planning consultants and urban designers Place-Make to look at infrastructure opportunities for an imminent increase in residential housing from 7000 to 14,000 properties. Other projects include housing schemes in Bursledon and Chichester, as well as working on various leisure and infrastructure schemes in Gibraltar and acting as Expert Witness on behalf of Chichester District Council for a forthcoming appeal.

She has been Project Landscape Architect for over 300 terra firma projects, including the National Air Traffic Control Centre, Prestwick which she regularly visits to review ongoing management; three schemes for the University of Portsmouth including the award winning Dennis Sciama Building with adjacent public space – Lion Square; the Cumberland Area Project, for Portsmouth City Council (which won a Local Government News Street Design Award); a new public park at Thamesmead, Gallions Park; new sports facilities at St Swithun’s School, Winchester; Manor House Hospital, Aylesbury; Older Peoples Mental Health Unit, St James Hospital, Portsmouth; the Falklands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne; plus numerous schools, healthcare, residential, commercial and leisure projects.

Robyn regularly appears as an expert witness at planning appeals, including Cornwall’s largest ever Planning Inquiry, representing the Council against the development of a huge ‘Energy from Waste’ facility. She has written design guidelines for new dwellings in the Chichester Harbour AONB, soon to be adopted as Supplementary Design Guidance by the Local Authorities, and has produced EIAs for various controversial exploratory minerals schemes.

Qualifications:
Chartered member of the Landscape Institute (1998)

Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Leeds (1995)

BA (Hons) in Landscape Architecture
– Leeds Metropolitan University (1993)