Experience

Goetre Villa Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director and Urban Forestry Consultant

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  Small urban forestry consultancy that specialise in working with cities and communities to plant more trees and better manage their urban forests. We also work with cities to imbed green infrastructure and improve public realm as part of highways infrastructure improvements as well as embedding smart technology to better manage their assets using TreePlotter and ParksPlotter. Find out more at TreePlotter.com. I lead on the delivery of Green aspects of Bristols Cycle City and Greater Bristol Bus Network which set the standard for how big infrastructure projects in the UK can deliver green improvements in a sea of grey and flagstones. I also set up TreeBristol an innovative city lead community tree planting program that worked with residents, business and community groups to plant more trees all across Bristol, this and the urban forestry program helped Bristol be named European Green Capital. Show less



createstreets.com

• Fellow - Create Streets

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Create Streets exists to help solve the housing crisis and to help neighbourhood, communities, landowners, councils and developers create and manage beautiful, sustainable places of gentle density that will be popular, are likely to be correlated with good wellbeing and public health outcomes and which are likely to prove good long term investments based on the historical data of value appreciation and maintenance costs. Our goal is to make it easier to co-create beautiful, sustainable, prosperous, economically and socially successful places with strong local support and which residents will love for generations. We also take an active part in the debate about the planning and design in the UK and beyond to help landowners, communities and governments support the creation of sufficient homes and places in which people can flourish. Show less



Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Apr 2021 - Present

  Independent Arboricultural and urban Forestry Advisor to Welsh Government, on Welsh Government Wales Tree and Plant Health Governance Board (WTPHB). WTPHB is used by Government as a reference panel of external expertise to advise on tree and plant health policy and governance in Wales.

• • Jan 2015 - Sep 2021

  Independent Arboricultural and urban Forestry Advisor to Welsh Government, on Wales Woodland Strategy Advisory Panel (WSAP). WSAP was used by Government as a reference panel of expertise to advise on woodland and tree policy in Wales. During the term the panel worked with Government to update Woodlands For Wales,The Welsh Government’s Strategy for Woodlands and Trees, which brought about a greater recognition of the role urban trees play across Wales. The panel also advised on schemes for replanting across Wales and as a critical partner around barriers to meeting national tree planting targets. Show less



Institute of Chartered Foresters

• United Kingdom
• Executive Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Oct 2015 - Oct 2016

• • Oct 2012 - Sep 2015



Bristol City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Arboricultural Officer

  • Mar 2006 - Sep 2012

  Managing a team of Arboricultural Officers inspecting and maintaining the cities tree stock across all council departments. Managing TreeBristol, the Councils community tree planting program - www.treebristol.com Project lead on the design and build of the green infrastructure provisions of Bristols Great Bristol Bus Network which saw massive increases in bus useage, improved user satisfaction and improved air quality following the redesign of routes to incorporate new trees, shopping and pedestrian areas Show less


Salisbury & District Recreation Council
• Recreational Facilities
• Arboricultural Officer (Planning)

  • Feb 2005 - Mar 2006

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee
• Arboricultural Officer

  • Feb 2004 - Feb 2005

Epping Forest District Council
• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Assistant Landscape and Arboricultural Officer

  • Aug 2001 - Feb 2004

Friends of the Urban Forest
• United States
• Community Development and Urban Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Voluntary Planting Manager

  • 2000 - 2001