Lionel Fanshawe BA, DipLA, FLI, FRGS, FRSA

Lionel’s career has taken him around the world and he has worked in nearly every sphere of his profession. He joined terra firma as Equity Partner in 1996 and took over the practice in 2000. He set up Alshamsi Terra Firma in Dubai in 2006, in 2013 he set up tf-LAB London and in May 2014 terra firma LT in Lithuania. Lionel is an occasional writer and lecturer on landscape issues, and has been involved in the wider profession as an external examiner at the University of Greenwich, Member of the Landscape Institute’s International working group, Chair of its SW Branch and frequently as an annual LI Awards juror. Lionel has been the LI representative to the UK Built Environment Action Group ‘Global Future Cities Project’ and is a founding member of the LI Humanitarian Group. He is currently Project Director for DEFRA’s ELM Convenor for Hampshire, an important initiative for the future of regenerative farming in the UK. He is also keenly involved in local community affairs, including the Petersfield Society Green Infrastructure Group, and has been Chair of his Local Parish Council, led the production of a Parish Plan and sat on the East Hants District Council, South Downs
National Park and North East Hants Design Panels. He is an experienced environmental impact assessor on landscape issues and a Law Society registered Expert Witness.