Martin Tabor

Expertise

Urban design and regeneration
Heritage landscape
Landscape design
Environmental appraisal
Tourism and leisure

Professional bodies

Member, the Landscape Institute

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh College of Art

Contact

martin.tabor@landuse.co.uk
0141 334 9595

Profile

Martin Tabor, Principal, is a landscape architect, based in our Glasgow office with over 25 years in consultancy.  Martin specialises in urban and landscape design, regeneration, development planning, landscape appraisals and heritage landscape conservation and management.

Martin is currently leading the £5.5m Inverness City Centre Streetscape Project, the £2.5m Mansfield Park Project in Partick and the prestigious £6m International Financial Services District Public Realm Project in Glasgow.  He has led many urban design projects including the recent Kirkwall Urban Design Development Framework, the Hamilton Palace Grounds Project and Aberdeen City Centre Public Realm Management Strategy.  Martin has also been responsible for award winning design projects in a rural context including the Kilmartin Glen Project in Argyle, the Rowardennan Project, Loch Lomond and the Kenmore Timeshare Development in Highland Perthshire.  He has expertise in heritage landscapes including work on the Inventory of Gardens & Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the preparation of numerous Conservation Management Plans and the implementation of notable conservation projects for some of Scotland’s premier designed landscapes.

Martin has prepared many development feasibility studies within urban and rural contexts such as skiing, mountain biking, scramble biking, golf developments.  He is a committed designer responsible for design entries to several internationally short listed competitions these have recently included the new 120ha Central Park for Navi Mumbai and the Flag Market Square for Preston.

For several years Martin has acted as a senior monitor on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and is a guest lecturer at Heriot-Watt University.