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Historic Parkland Portfolio
reShaped: Elaine Cresswell BSc(Hons) DipLD CMLI reShaped
Professional Experience and Capabilities: Elaine is a chartered landscape architect with 16 years experience delivering successful landscape schemes for heritage, education, health and public sector clients. She is described by her peers as “a pragmatic and innovative designer who has a huge enthusiasm for landscape architecture” and applauded by her clients for her “customer focus ..and achievement of very difficult timescales” Elaine is an active member of the Landscape Institute’s Technical Committee, which gives her the unique opportunity to influence future national standards and guidance. In recent years, she has contributed to BREEAM Landuse and Ecology, SuDS and Biodiversity British Standards and LI housing and health publications. She is currently working to drive up design standards within heritage settings as a member of Cheshire West and Chester’s Design Review Panel, increase the sustainability of developments as part of ZeroCarbon Liverpool and enable Liverpool residents to take an active part of the design of their surroundings through her work with Bluegreen Liverpool.
Telephone: 07788991854 Email: elaine@reshaped.uk.com Address: Suite 8, Church House, 1 Hanover St, Liverpool, L1 3DN Company Number: Shaped Ltd. TA reShaped 08211993 Website: www.reshaped.uk.com Twitter:@elainecresswll
Over her career, Elaine has purposefully specialised in the creation and delivery of sensitive, welldesigned, healthy and sustainable places that people want to spend time in. She believes that sustainable design is less about ‘Eco-bling‘ and more about making space usable, maintainable, attractive and efficiently masterplanned, whilst also sensitively integrating a development with its context and reusing existing resources. Many of her previous schemes have won high profile awards, including: • • • • •
LGN Pedestrian Realm Runner Up 2009 (Lower High Street) (see inset) RTPI Regeneration Network Award 2009 (Merthyr Regeneration) BSCA Environment Gold Award 2009 (Merthyr Regeneration) RIBA Northern Network Award Shortlist 2011 (Burgage Square) Wakefield Civic Society Regeneration Award 2011 (Burgage Square)
Work History 2012-Present Director of reShaped Landscape Architecture, Liverpool 2010-2012 Senior Landscape Architect and Construction Lead at Camlin Lonsdale, Marsden 2005-2010 Landscape Architect and Project Director at Austin-Smith:Lord, Liverpool 2000-2004 Landscape Architect at Cooper Partnership, Bristol
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reShaped: Catherine Higham BA(Hons) MA CMLI reShaped
Professional Experience and Capabilities: Catherine is an artist and chartered landscape architect, whose unique vision, flair and creativity brings something really special to her projects. She works with reShaped on a project by project basis, where her thoughtful and art-led approach compliments Elaine’s own expertise. Catherine specialises in hand drawn graphics, often combining them with digital media to create beautiful bespoke details and places of meaning and relevance to people. Her designs explore surface & form, genus loci and the nature of physical boundaries. Her ambition is to prompt users to take notice of their surroundings and deviate from their usual routines. Catherine’s creative vision has brought a unique flavour to numerous projects over her 13 years of experience, including the following award winning schemes: Bury Mount SAM & Watermeadows Grade II* Registered Park, Towcester • English Heritage Guidance ‘Valuing Places: Good Practice in Conservation Areas’ • Museums & Heritage Award for Restoration & Conservation 2011 • BALI Land Renewal and Regeneration Award 2010:
Telephone: 07788991854 Email: cat@reshaped.uk.com Address: Suite 8, Church House, 1 Hanover St, Liverpool, L1 3DN Company Number: Shaped Ltd. TA reShaped 08211993 Website: www.reshaped.uk.com
Burgage Square, Wakefield • RIBA Northern Network Award Shortlist 2011 • Wakefield Civic Society Regeneration Award 2011 Catherine developed her design based on the ancient burgage plots previously located in this area. Their location, form and materiality were celebrated throughout the new square and expressed in bespoke paving, lighting, water wall and herbaceous planting details. Selwyn Close Housing, Oldham 2006 • Building for Life Gold Award, supported by CABE Catherine worked closely with the local Islamic community to design bespoke threshold tiling, laser cut railings and car port gates that were unique to the place and had meaning to them. (See inset) Work History 2015-Present Artist & Landscape Architect at reShaped 2005-2015 Camlin Lonsdale Landscape Architects, Marsden, Huddersfield 2004 Illustrator, Map 21 Planning Consultancy, Sheffield 3
reShaped: Suite 8, Church House, 1 Hanover Street, L1 3DN reShaped
reShaped Capacity: reShaped Landscape Architecture was formed in September 2012 and specializes in the creation of attractive and sustainable people-centred places that fit sensitively into their setting. We have experience in historic landscape restoration, re-envisioning public parks for the future, landscape management plans, design codes, habitat creation, green infrastructure and high quality bespoke street furniture design. reShaped adds value to projects through creative problem solving, lateral thinking and visual imagination, which can reduce costs, increase economic value, enhance public engagement and create better places that people want to live work and play in. Our current projects include social media training for the Friends of Anfield, extending Kings Park (Southport), Zero Carbon Liverpool, Great George Square Temporary Chinese History Museum, Bold Street to the Baltic Community Green Infrastructure, Newsham Park for Treehouse CiC and Homebaked’s market square codesign. We currently hold professional indemnity insurance of £500,000 and public liability insurance of £2,000,000. We are happy to increase our level of cover in accordance with project requirements. Telephone: 07788991854 Email: elaine@reshaped.uk.com Company Number: reShaped Ltd 08211993 Website: www.reshaped.uk.com Twitter:@elainecresswll
References Nigel Spaven, Capital Projects Manager RDASH Mental Health Trust: Tel: 01302 796000, Email: nigel.spaven@rdash.nhs.uk Gavin Lewis, Physical Regeneration Manager, MTCBC: (refer to last page)
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Historic Parkland Restoration and Landscape Management: Stoke Park, Bristol (Grade II) Client: Stoke Park Consortium and The University of Western England
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Brief Description of Phase 1: Restoration of Grade II registered parkland, designed by Thomas Wright, including footpath works, fencing, vegetation clearance, new woodland planting, management of ornamental shrubbery, veteran trees and ancient woodland, re-establishment of woodland ground-flora and traditional hay meadows, repair of historic walls and clearance of Japanese knotweed. Landscape Budget: ÂŁ100,000 per year Brief Description of Phase 2: Fifty year management plan for the restoration and management of the parkland, obtaining costings, identifying risk elements, providing advice on suitable uses of the historic parkland and potential ways of funding parkland works.
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Historic Monument Restoration and Landscape Design: Stoke Park, Bristol (Grade II)
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Client: Stoke Park Consortium Brief Description of Project: Restoration of eight listed structures, historic walls, ditches, gardens, balustrades and Anti-aircraft Scheduled Ancient Monument within Grade II registered historic landscape. Works included: • • • • • • • •
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Stonework repair, stabilisation and removal of mature trees from the Dower House retaining wall, cattle tunnels and tunnels under carriageway drives; Rebuilding stone retaining walls to parkland footpaths and horse drinking ponds; Clearance and revealing stone lined dew ponds; Taking casts from the Obelisk and Gateways, faithfully recreating historic stonework details; Creating gateways in stone walls where appropriate to bring use to redundant areas of the park and dower house terrace gardens; Recreating Dower House stone balustrades from broken sections found on site; Slightly realigning the Dower House Green to allow for car access to the flats; and Landscape design to clocktower surrounds.
Sceduled Ancient Monument and Registered Parkand Restoration and Landscape Design: Bury Mount and Watermeadows, Towcester (Grade II*)
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Client: Northants Council
Brief Description of Phase 1: Restoration of ‘Bury Mount’, a Scheduled Ancient Monument at risk and reasserting it as the public heart of Towcester town centre. Works included sensitive re-profiling earthworks and stabilization of the former Norman motte, new planting, access, and bespoke stonework/ wood detailing which narrates the history of the place. This project was cited as an exemplar project in English Heritage publication, ‘Valuing Places: Good Practice in Conservation Areas’ and the Landscape Institutes’s ‘Clients Guide.’ It won the Museums & Heritage award for Restoration & Conservation & a BALI award for Regeneration in 2011 Brief Description of Phase 2: 5 year management plan for Bury Mount and adjacent Watermeadows Grade II* Registered Parkland. The management plan was developed to ensure: • • • •
Continued conservation of Bury Mount and Watermeadows grade II* registered parkland. Provision of high quality recreation areas at the heart of the community; Safe and open public access to the site; and Enhancement of habitat and wildlife biodiversity.
These objectives were met via a ‘light touch’ approach; drawing out the character of the site with minimum interference.
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Historic Restoration and Landscape Management: Whaddon Park & Snelshall Benedictine Priory SAM, Milton Keynes Client: David Lock Associates/Corran Wakefield
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Brief Description of Phase 1: Sensitive restoration and reuse of Whaddon Park and Snelshall Priory SAM as a modern country park. This involved extensive research into the history and location of Whaddon Chase and Whaddon Park, developing a masterplan that integrated the historic features of the landscape with current and proposed uses, and protecting the setting of Whaddon village from views of the future western expansion of Milton Keynes. Brief Description of Phase 2: Fifty year management and implementation plan for the restoration and management of Whaddon Park and Snelshall Priory SAM. This included detailed proposals for the management of existing over-mature copse and plantations, Oakhill Wood, veteran trees, grasslands, meadows and new plantings. Brief Description of Phase 3: Specification and tender package for phase one planting works and application for a woodland improvement grant.
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Community Co-design of Historic and Registered Parklands: St James Cemetery (Grade I) & Newsham Park (Grade II), Liverpool
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Client: Friends of St James /Treehouse Liverpool St James Cemetery: reShaped, ProSocial Place CIC and PLACED CiC organized and delivered a day long community design workshop in conjunction with Hidden Liverpool. The workshop offered the opportunity for residents, Liverpool University academics, design professionals and the Friends of St James Gardens to explore the future use and design for the Anglican Cathedral Gardens, The Oratory and St James Mount. The design day was a great success, widening the scope of the Friend’s work, enlarging their numbers and forming the basis of subsequent funding applications for restoration works. Themes explored included: Balancing public access, vandalism and sensitive integration of safety features, appropriate reuse of historic buildings and structures, appropriate income generation events to provide funds to maintain the park, balance between faithful restoration and reinterpretation to enhance usage.
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Newsham Park Grade II Registered Park: reShaped provide ongoing pro-bono advice to Treehouse Liverpool CIC to ensure that their aspirations and landscape interventions are appropriate to and enhance the landscape character of Edward Kemp’s original design for Newsham Park. This advice has included leading guided walks to discover special views that should be preserved or opened up, specification of trees, spacing and tree pits to restore avenues, bulb planting, design and funding proposals for ‘The Green Room’ and potential locations for sensitive screen woodland planting to hide previous inappropriate residential development.
Future Vision, Income Generation and Management of Public Parks: National Wildflower Centre and Court Hey Park Masterplan, Liverpool
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Client: Tony Jones, National Wildflower Centre Brief Description of Project: Masterplan and Implementation Plan for the National Wildflower Centre and Court Hey Park. The main principles of which will be to: • • • • • • •
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Create an inclusive landscape that promotes the centre’s core values of inclusivity, social justice and environmental sustainability; Increase the centre’s presence in the surrounding area and connectivity between the NWF, the loop line, Knowlesley and Liverpool city centre; Revitalise the visitor centre and create a year round attraction; Integrate the visitor centre with Court Hey Park; Reinterpret the purpose of a public park - what could parks give the public to take home: power, food, skills, office space, wifi connectivity...; Create domestic scale demonstration projects that teach the public about how to make their homes more sustainable; and Develop of an exemplar parkland strategy to persuade the Local Authority to transfer ownership of Court Hey Park to the National Wildflower Centre.
Community Visioning of Historic Landscapes: Liverpool Waterfront Park
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Client: Engage Liverpool / Canal and Rivers Trust
Brief Description of Project: reShaped were commissioned to project manage Bluegreen Liverpool public engagement project. As part of this project, we wanted to generate ideas and discussions about how our historic docks could be used and how to improve their environment. We invited ten designers to spend a weekend with us discussing and visioning what made a great place and how this might be realised in Liverpool South Docks. Ideas generated included: • • Three Graces
Canal Link Proposed Eden Centre of the
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Swimming Platforms in Canal Link
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Rationalise car access and surface car parking; Create a pedestrian walkway along the eastern side of the dock and canal link (blue route) a cycle route, largely free of cars, through the centre of the docks (red route) and a Riverside walkway where pedestrians were the priority (Purple route); Creating breathing spaces (paved and planted) between historic and modern developments for people to use for recreation, play, picnic, meet their neighbours or relax in in the middle of a busy day; Development of the Eden Centre of the North on vacant land at Brunswick dock to draw tourists from the Three Graces, through the dock system and onto the Garden Festival Site and Otterspool.
The ideas generated by the design slam were included within Liverpool’s mayoral review of parks and greenspaces 2016 and link in with the city’s funded Urban Green-Up ambitions creeate a green movement corridor between the docks and Bold Street.
Sustainable Design & Environmental Masterplanning within a protected setting Parc Cybi, Holyhead
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Client: Welsh Assembly Government Brief Description of Phase 1: Masterplan for a large business park on the outskirts of Holyhead in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The structure, plot boundaries and road layouts were based on the original field boundaries and protected the setting of and intervisibility between archaeological remains and respecting the site’s ecology and cultural heritage. The commission included design and implementation of the site boundary and road blue and green infrastructure and involved the construction of 5km dry stone walls, footpaths, swales, bio-retention ponds, wetlands, meadows and gorse scrubland. It achieved the highest CEEQUAL (‘Excellent’ 94.6%) score awarded to date for sustainability of masterplan, detailed design and implementation. Landscape Budget: £1.5m Brief Description of Phase 2: Design Code for the future development of the business unit plots included: • • • • • •
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Building materials and colour palettes based on the local vegetation and vernacular building ral colours; Building height, floor area and form designated for each area based on landscape capacity; Specification of on-plot stone boundary wall details; Existing site seed bank meadow creation guidance; Building signage design; and Planting palettes and identification of nurseries with local provenance planting stock.
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Elaine’s outstanding work has recently been recognised with the achievement of 3 awards: o Gold Award for BCSC Town Centre Environment 2009 for Merthyr Tydfil’s Regeneration, including the River Taff and Lower High Street projects o RTPI Regeneration Network Award 2009 for Merthyr Tydfil’s Regeneration, including the River Taff and Lower High Street projects o Runner Up Award in the Pedestrian Realm category at the LGN Street Design Awards 2009.
I would not hesitate to commission reShaped as Landscapeconsultants to projects in Merthyr Tydfil due to the dedicated service that Elaine has previously provided and the positive reception that her designs haveengendered from businesses and community alike. Yours sincerely,
Gavin Lewis Physical Regeneration Manager Regeneration Department
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