Landsmith Associates
Our Approach
We focus on:
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Retrofitting urban landscapes on estates, streets, spaces, and brownfield sites.
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Our goal is to achieve a minimum 30% biodiversity net gain, demonstrating our commitment to ecological regeneration.
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Co-creating climate resilience, promoting water sensitivity and neutrality, and developing human- and nature-centred environments.
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Employing a systems-based and evidence-led design process, incorporating digital technology
Collaboration and Commitment
We work with local authorities, community groups, and commercial developers, ensuring transparency and open communication for successful project delivery.
Our team of seasoned specialists and technicians collaborates across multiple disciplines to meet environmental, social, and governance targets, striving for resilient, biodiverse, and net-zero estate management aligned with the UNSDGs
Landsmith Associates, founded by director Sarah Jones-Morris FLI FIPM in 2017, is an award-winning landscape architecture and urban design consultancy.
We collaborate and design with people and nature to cocreate for a more resilient planet, regenerate wildlife, and enhance well-being, from strategy to implementation
Services
We offer services from feasibility to detail design through to construction. From nature reserves to residential to BIDs and Universities. Also, insight reporting, research, and participatory engagement with various techniques and materials (hybrid, in-person and digital). Develop regenerative strategies at the city-to-estate scale for nature-based solutions.
We also conduct landscape and visual appraisal, Building with Nature assessors, Nature Positive University, and green infrastructure strategies and policies.
"Landsmith Associates' unique approach, to an issue that has been unsolvable in-house, lent a fresh view of the situation and was represented in a manner that attracted the attention of senior managers within the institution." Head of External Estates, University of Bristol
"Your keen insight into The BID's sustainability objectives, coupled with your vast experience in managing external relationships and knowledge of global greening projects, greatly enhanced our final outcomes and drew widespread appreciation from stakeholders." Redcliffe and Temple BID, Bristol
"We greatly valued Sarah’s constructive comments and ‘push’ to fully demonstrate the approach we are taking to retrofitting urban green spaces in Cornish towns for wellbeing, water, and wildlife benefits." Cornwall Council
2024
Shortlisted for the Design Research for Healthy Cities Award Healthy City Design Congress 2024 for ACD work on The Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work
2023
Building with Nature Full Award for the One Lockleaze, Bristol
Avalon Marshes finalist for the CIRIA award 'Habitat Creation Project of the Year'
2021
Thank You Award for Greening Eastside from Eastside Community Trust
Building with Nature Award for Making Space for Nature, Cornwall
Building with Nature Award for Our Health Meadow, Penarth Wales
2020
Joint Winner of Homes 2030 RIBA Competition with Igloo Regeneration
2017
Berkhamsted Cemetery Bench Competition, Highly Commended
@Stride Treglown
2016
Torbay Masterplan, National RTPI Award Shortlist
Trinity St David National RTPI Award Shortlist
@Nicholas Pearson Associates
2014
St Antony's College, Oxford RICS South East Awards, High Commendation, Civic Trust AwardBALI Principal National Award Oxford Preservation Trust Award
2011
One Brighton Civic Trust Award
2008
Trelowarren Estate, Cornwall RICS South West Awards and The Times Winner
2007
Bath Spa Hotel National BALI Award
Awards
Sarah Jones-Morris
Director
BA Hons PG Dip MA UD FLI FIPM
Sarah Jones-Morris, Director of Landsmith Associates, is an award-winning landscape architect and urbanist with over 25 years of experience in diverse UK projects.
Her expertise lies in integrating health and nature into landscape and urban design, from strategic planning to public realm spaces. As a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and Institute of Place Management, Sarah focuses on developing green infrastructure and public health-led masterplans and strategies. She is trained in UKHAB and BNG matrix.
She co-founded the Association of Collaborative Design and Bristol Soundwalks. Design Council Expert, Design West Review Panellist and Building with Nature assessor and auditor, and has judged numerous awards. Notable projects include the We Can Make project, Avalon Marshes Visitor Centre, Redcliffe and Temple Green Infrastructure Action Plan and the University of Bristol’s Living Estates Strategy
Flavia Goldsworthy
Consultant
BA (Hons) MA LLI
Flavia runs an established landscape design consultancy, focusing on ecologically sensitive design to create dynamic, elegant spaces for both humans and nature.
Passionate about materials and British craftsmanship, she has 18 years of design experience, trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and holds a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Brighton University and an MA in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich University. A visiting lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Flavia teaches Landscape Architecture.
She has completed projects across the UK and worldwide, collaborating with designers, architects, scientists, and developers, including on the We Can Make Avalon Marshes Visitor Centre and Home of 2030 competition.
Duncan Hancox
Consultant
BA & MA (Hons) (Cant) MA (SOAS) Pg Dip (Cant) MSP Practitioner (programme management), Prince2 Practitioner (project management). Co-Active Coaching Practitioner, Social Value UK Practitioner (social impact)
Duncan has over 25 years of management consulting experience, specialising in policy development, strategy, planning, and programme management. He excels in analytical and collaborative problem-solving. He has worked with government and healthcare organisations in the UK, Australia, and the Middle East, including developing social impact frameworks for retailers and business cases for the NHS.
As a Director at Deloitte Consulting in Sydney, he led hospital growth strategies and performance frameworks. Previously, as Head of Business Transformation for Engine Service Design in Dubai, he designed customer-centred models for hospitals and airports.
Duncan has collaborated with Landsmith Associates on various strategic projects.
Who we are