Team

Philip has prepared conservation plans, management plans and heritage impact statements for sites ranging from monastic ruins to Cold War airfields. Clients include the National Trust, English Heritage, the Home Office, private estates and local authorities. He has also carried out wider studies of themes like historic routes, as well as designing period planting schemes. He trained initially as a botanist and landscape architect, but an increasing interest in landscape history led him to study for a MA and PhD at the Centre for English Local History at Leicester University.

He worked for a landscape practice between 1987 and 1998, dealing with infrastructure projects as well as historic landscapes and landscape management. Philip formed acta in 1998 as a practice specialising in the research on, and conservation of, landscapes and buildings. Philip is director of acta.

Clive is an associate consultant. He has 35 years of experience of arboriculture in the private sector and in local authorities. His technical knowledge - along with a broad understanding of the planning process - means that he brings an informed, practical and pragmatic approach to any project. He has a particular interest in the design challenges presented by the retention and incorporation of historic trees into new developments and in sustainable land management.

Amanda is the associate consultant who deals with graphics and GIS. She is a geographer and landscape architect and her career as a consultant has followed work in museums and archaeology, as well as map curator at The University of Sussex. Fourteen years working for a landscape consultancy on a mixture of large infrastructure schemes, roads, historic parks and also World Heritage Sites helped to increase the diversity of her experience. In 2004 Amanda set up Tilia Services which works closely with acta on many projects including historic parks and gardens and Cold War site conservation plans.