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Alice Cooper

BA Hons, Dip LA, CMLISenior Chartered Landscape Architect

Alice’s role has also included supporting County and District Councils and the South Downs National Park Authority;  providing advice to planning teams, including Expert Witness and specialist advice on delivering countryside and management projects.

Her portfolio of projects is wide ranging and contains recent notable projects such as :

  • Osterley House and Park, Isleworth – Conservation Management Plan in collaboration with the National Trust.
  • The development of Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire – leading on the long-term landscape vision for this open-air experimental archaeology museum.
  • Cefn Coed Colliery Museum, Neath Port Talbot – supporting the council and Planning Solutions Ltd (PSL) with the vision and illustrative masterplan to restore the mining heritage and region regeneration. This work contributed to the award of £1.8m in extra funding by the Welsh Government.
  • Care-Home development for dementia care in South Oxfordshire.

Past projects include advice and design consultancy work to the National Trust at Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk to improve the visitor centre facilities and experience of the wider landscape at this international recognised and archaeological significant Royal Burial ground.  Large commercial leisure and residential developments, private country estates, the refurbishment of public parks seeking HLF funding and coastal regeneration studies.

Prior to joining terra firma Alice has been involved in high profile public realm schemes for the Environment Agency on major flood alleviation schemes with Black and Veatch for Nottingham, Northwich and Morpeth and Heritage Lottery Funded Parks for People, historic city regeneration and designing the entrance for Chester Zoo’s new Jubilee Quarter.

Her specialism and passion for hand-drawn illustration, photography and sport has led to new areas of work, increasing terra firma’s depth of services and has resulted in illustrative commissions for private clients, exhibition, visitor guides and publication.

Qualifications:
Chartered Member (CMLI) of the Landscape Institute (1998)

Post Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (1995)
Leeds Metropolitan University

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

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