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    2B Landscape Consultancy was formed in early 1998. Our principal business object is not growth, but stability. As well as the core team of talented and attractive staff below, we also work with numerous professional colleagues, such as those within Hull Sustainability Consortium. Depending on the project requirements, we can bring onboard planners, architects, arborists, ecologists, environmental managers, engineers and other disciplines, to provide a complete range of design and environmental services for our clients.

    We strongly believe in maximising the sustainability benefits - which are present in all forms of development and change - for our clients and the wider community.


    Bill Blackledge, BA DipLA, CMLI

    Bill has a broad range of experience within both public and private sector. Public sector work has included community landscapes, housing, and public open space design. Private sector work has been for clients from local and government authorities, to private developers and utilities; including housing, retail developments, highway planning, transmission line routeing, reclamation, and landscape and environmental assessment. Since 1983, he has worked for: Leeds City Council; Hull City Council; and as a landscape architect and then a partner of a regional landscape practice. He is particularly interested in landscape applications of CAD, 3D modelling and IT generally.

    Bill has served on the Landscape Institute Yorkshire+Humber Branch as both Chair and Branch Rep to the LI Advisory Council. Bill is also Chair of the LI Professional Review Group for Leeds Metropolitan University accredited landscape courses, and is currently serving on the LI's Technical Committee.

    Elizabeth Blackledge, BA(Hons) DipLA

    Elizabeth has an honours degree and a diploma in landscape architecture. Work experience with Kirklees Metropolitan Council included leisure, industrial and environmental improvement work. Whilst raising a family, Elizabeth was able to complete some twenty varied garden design commissions. Since the inception of 2B Landscape Consultancy, she has been involved in the design and implementation of a range of landscape projects including hard and soft landscape design, specification and contract management. She has also contributed to numerous landscape and visual impact assessments.

    Elizabeth served as Honorary Secretary and webmaster to LI Yorkshire+Humber Branch from 2005 to 2010 and is currently on the 'Pathway to Chartership' of the Landscape Institute.

    Bill Cooper, BA(Hons), MA, PG Cert Urban Environmental Design, PG Cert Writing, CMLI

    Bill has substantial environmental planning, design and management experience. He has worked for Rotherham Council, Doncaster Council, Groundwork Dearne Valley and Weddle Landscape Design. His work has included: parks, playgrounds, allotments, Transpennine Trail, cemeteries, trees and woodlands, housing, waterfront regeneration, football stadia and business parks. He is experienced in writing green space and allotment strategies, landscape and visual impact assessment, pre-application discussions, neighbourhood planning and local development frameworks. Bill is also a poet, scriptwriter and historian. His interests include fruit trees, poetry in public art, bioclimatic design, historic landscape interpretation and the architect, Edwin Lutyens.

    Bill has chaired a community forum and local development trust and served on the Landscape Institute Yorkshire and Humber Branch as newsletter editor, secretary and committee member.

    Sue Rogers, BSc 1st Class (Hons) Ecology, Dip/MA LA, CMLI

    In gaining a first class honours degree in Ecology, Sue was awarded the 'Boswell Prize for Botany' before completing a Masters in Landscape Design and Architecture and becoming a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute.

    Sue has worked in both the public and private sectors and has carried out a wide range of planning and design projects including: local and district landscape sensitivity, capacity and character assessments; a variety of LVIAs for EIAs; open green space audits; play areas, schools, nursery and ecological planting designs. This work has involved consultation, planning applications, tenders, CDM coordination and contract administration.

    Sue's particular interests are sustainable planning and design for multi-functional SuDs, community involvement and inclusive design in local projects.

    Amanda McDermott, BA(Hons), MA

    Amanda is a creative and committed landscape architect. Throughout her time at university, she has been a leading light in the Student Landscape Institute Council (SLIC) and the Landscape Institute Yorkshire & Humber Branch (LIYHB). Having served as a Student Representative, she continues to serve on the Landscape Institue Advisory Council as a Licenciate Representative. Her qualifications and work experience include architecture and landscape, and her landscape studies include in-depth landscape character and landscape and visual assessment, as well as landscape design at all scales. Her software abilities include advanced CAD, Graphics, Office and GIS.




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