Walshe Associates was founded in 1982 and brings together a broad spectrum of design, restoration and management skills in architecture, landscape architecture, wildlife and environmental conservation, master planning, management planning and sustainable design. The width of our skills and experience has also allowed us to develop project planning, research, evaluation, guidance and monitoring as key components to our work with private and public clients including English Heritage, Cadw, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Europarc, ICOMOS, Scottish Natural Heritage, CABE Space, Natural England and the Tunisian and the Cyprus Governments.
The practice is based in Worcester in England but has a portfolio of projects across Europe and beyond. The practice’s core of professionals frequently joins with others to put together a team capable of exactly addressing the needs of specific projects.
Paul is an architect and a landscape architect with a further degree in environmental conservation. He worked in architectural and landscape practices in England and France before being appointed the National Heritage Adviser for England and Wales. He was also the National Heritage Memorial Fund’s landscape adviser and the Heritage Lottery Fund’s adviser on land, sea and nature policy. He served on English Heritage, Landscape Institute, ICOMOS-UK , Design Council and Garden History Society committees, was Chair of the Board of Conservation Studies, the University of York, Chairs the ICOMOS-UK Cultural Landscapes & Historic Gardens Committee, was a Trustee of the National Memorial Arboretum, the Greenwood Trust, Garland and the Wherry Yacht Charitable Trust and was the Countryside Agency’s Head of National Parks and protected areas. His published works are ‘British Landscape Design in the 20th Century’ ‘French Farm Buildings and Cottages’ ‘The Design of Modern Farm Buildings’ ‘Countryside Recreation for Disabled People’ and various technical and advisory publications. He has been a lecturer, tutor and external examiner at several UK universities. Walshe Associates LLP was established in 2003 undertaking conservation, landscape and architectural projects in Cyprus, Finland, France, Ireland, Libya, Tunisia, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and the United States. The practice has also been appointed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as monitor and mentor on over forty heritage conservation projects across the UK supported by the Fund.
After an early career in financial management Carol qualified in landscape architecture at the Gloucester College of Art in Cheltenham and practised with Strutt and Parker before becoming joining Walshe Associates. She brings not only her financial abilities, being the firm’s financial director as well as ensuring projects run to budget, but also her considerable landscape architectural skills and experience to the firm’s work. She has worked on the creation of new landscapes as well as the conservation of historic landscapes always bringing to the practice’s work a keen concern for the quality of the space about and between buildings believing context should strongly influence the design of buildings and landscapes.
This sense of context has been invaluable to the firm’s master planning and project planning, research, evaluation, guidance and monitoring work.
Carol has a particular interest in garden design and in planting and has designed gardens with a considerable sense of place in England, France and Ireland.