Lyndis Cole

Expertise

Rural futures/ integrated rural development
Landscape character assessment and planning
Policy review, guidance and research
Protected landscapes

Profile

Lyndis Cole, Principal, has over 30 years experience in environmental planning and management. Lyndis leads our work on rural futures and protected landscapes.

Throughout her career Lyndis has been a leading proponent of ‘Nature in the City’; catchment planning; the development of flood alleviation schemes that work with natural systems; landscape characterisation; and the promotion of local foods. She is strongly committed to finding sustainable solutions for rural areas, including ways of managing land to maximise the benefits delivered in the face of climate change. This includes important contracts into ecosystem service delivery and studies that seek to maximise renewable energy provision in harmony with the local environment.

Lyndis has worked extensively in protected landscapes. She has prepared guidance on the preparation of National Park Management Plans for both England and Wales and has written some of these plans, including the National Park Management Plan for Dartmoor. In 2004 she led the review of the Welsh National Parks on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government.

An expert in policy, Lyndis has written many guidance documents, including Conservation Issues in Local Plans, Woodland Creation, the Amenity Reclamation of Mineral Workings, the Reclamation of Damaged Land for Nature Conservation; and Planning Controls over Agricultural and Forestry Developments and Rural Building Conversions.

Professional bodies

Past director of the River Restoration Centre, the Ecological Parks Trust, BTCV, and London Ecology Centre
Past member of the Forestry Commission’s South East Regional Advisory Committee

Qualifications

BSc, Geography, University of Durham
MSc, Landscape, Ecology, Design and Maintenance, University of London
National Environment Research Council scholarship

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