Stephen Kirkpatrick (Principal Landscape Architect/Director)

Stephen is the practice founder and has been a chartered landscape architect and environmental planning consultant for over 20 years.  He adopts a hands-on approach in directing a highly skilled team of professionals at Scarp, has an in-depth knowledge of the UK planning, legislative and regulatory systems and has worked in China, Australia, North Africa and the Channel Islands. 

Stephen has particular skills in landscape master-planning and environmental assessment.  He brings creative visions to landscape masterplans for a wide range of development types and helps ensure, as an inter-disciplinary professional, an iterative and strongly synergistic interface between master-planning and EIA.  LVIA inputs have been provided to the ESs for Phase 1 of High Speed 2, various research/light industrial developments at Harwell Campus and Innovation Centre and numerous strategic residential/mixed use developments across the country.

Stephen is also a seasoned expert witness and has presented evidence for numerous planning appeals that have considered wind farm, residential, commercial and mixed use development proposals.  

The Associate Group

The Scarp team is supported by an associate group of technicians and chartered professionals.