Paul Walshe.
M.Sc., Dip.Arch., Dip.L.A., R.I.B.A., C.M.L.I.
Director.

Paul has qualifications in architecture, landscape architecture and environmental conservation and worked as an architect and/or a landscape architect with Casson, Conder and Partners in London, Binoux et Foliassson in Paris, Colvin and Moggridge in Oxfordshire and the Countryside Commission in Cheltenham and Birmingham. He has combined private practice, establishing Walshe Associates in 1982, with the role of National Heritage Adviser to the Countryside Commission/Agency, Landscape Adviser to the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Policy Adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund. He is currently a member of the English Heritage Advisory Committee and of their Parks and Gardens Panel. He is a member of the ICOMOS UK Executive Committee, Chair of their Cultural Landscapes Committee and Chair of the UK wide Landscape Working Group implementing the European Landscape Convention. He is an adviser for the Heritage Lottery Fund and an enabler for CABE Space.

Paul enjoys teaching and has been a visiting lecturer and external assessor in architecture and landscape architecture at the Architectural Association, Birmingham University, Oxford Brookes University, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh University and at the University of York where he was Chair of the Board of Conservation Studies. He is a Director of GARLAND (the Garden and Landscape Heritage Trust) and a trustee of the National Memorial Arboretum, the Wherry Trust and the Greenwood Trust.

Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars and has written and published a number of books including The Design of Modern Farm Buildings (Design Council), British Landscape Design in the 20th century (Landscape Institute), French Farm Buildings and Cottages (Wiedenfeld and Nicolson), Countryside Recreation for Disabled People (Countryside Commission) and various technical and advisory publications.