I am a landscape and urban designer and my horticultural career began at Capel Manor in 1991. I have Bachelors and Masters Degrees in spatial planning, urban environmental design and landscape architecture, together with three diplomas in horticulture and landscape design.

I am currently the Parks Projects and Strategy Manager at Brighton & Hove City Council, where my role is to develop all of the open spaces across the city. I previously worked for the Mayor of London as a landscape and urban design adviser in the London Development Agency and Transport for London for six years.

I am also an adviser to the Department for Education at technical level, the National Trust Historic Environment Group and the Royal Horticultural Society Community Engagement Committee.