Rosie James

Senior Professional

Rosie is a Chartered Landscape Architect and has experience of working within multidisciplinary project teams across the various stages of the planning and development process.

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Expertise

Landscape Architecture

Rosie is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 10 years of experience. She works on projects from initial strategic stages, through planning and assessment, to detailed design, construction, and management.

Rosie’s project experience includes dynamic coastal environments, large scale habitat creation, and water infrastructure, as well as masterplan development for health, commercial and leisure sectors.

Expertise

With a background in environmental science and multidisciplinary practice, Rosie understands the importance of communication and collaborative working for project success.

Rosie has a keen interest in sustainability and biodiversity, to deliver resilient and adaptable projects that are fit for the future. Rosie is particularly interested in the relationships between landscape and health and wellbeing, and how we can design places to bring us closer to nature.

Project Experience

Rosie engages in projects across the planning and development process from initial strategic definition stages, through planning and assessment, to detailed design, construction, and management / aftercare.

Rosie’s experience in landscape and visual assessment, ranges from Strategic Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVA) to full Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and Townscape and Visual Impact Assessments (TVIA) for EIA development. Her work has informed masterplans, green infrastructure strategies and development proposals for projects ranging in scale from allocated strategic growth sites to individual buildings.

Design experience includes the ‘Green Heart’, a new flagship greenspace within the hospital campus, for the NHS Royal United Hospitals Bath. Rosie has also developed courtyard and walled garden designs for the National Trust, to provide high quality spaces for visitors, improve access and circulation, and assist with nature integration and historical interpretation.

Since 2021 Rosie has led our Landscape Clerk of Works team for the award winning Avonmouth and Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA) Ecology Mitigation and Flood Defence Project. This Environment Agency scheme comprises 17km of flood defences alongside the Severn Estuary, in proximity to internationally protected estuary habitats. It also includes extensive habitat creation providing 80 ha. of new wetland habitat and over 2 ha. of native tree planting. Regular site inspections are carried out throughout the construction, maintenance and defects periods.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), MA
Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI)

Career History

Rosie started her career as a Landscape Architect at Peter Brett Associates (now Stantec), where she assisted the landscape team with projects across planning and detailed design stages. This gave her a solid foundation in landscape and visual assessment, and experience of collaborating closely with civil engineers and other disciplines to coordinate design work. Rosie joined Nicholas Pearson Associates in 2017 and became a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute shortly afterwards. She has developed her analytical and creative skills across a broad portfolio of projects and contexts, including coastal environments, wetlands and estuaries, National Landscapes and historic environments, and the centres of our two local cities Bristol and Bath. Rosie takes an overview of the use of GIS in landscape projects and has also been a mentor for the Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership (P2C).