Key Skills & Attributes:

• Co ordination and management of design teams.• Tender package development.• Construction package development.• Site monitoring and project delivery.• Client liaison and development.• Extensive supply chain contacts.• Long established specialist sub consultant relationships.• Proven experience in sports stadia and training complexes.• Track record in delivering high end time share developments.• Wide ranging history and experience in the restoration of parks.• Delivery of public realm projects.

Steven T Dawson CMLILandscape Architect, Golf Course Architect and Project ManagerEducation : BA, DipLA, Landscape ArchitectureProfessional Institutions : The Landscape Institute CMLI

Steven is a registered Landscape Architect with over 25 years of experience in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. During this time he has had a core involvement in the planning, design and implementation of significant projects in the UK and overseas for public and private sector clients.Within the UK, he has worked upon complex restoration projects at Stanley Park Liverpool and The International Garden Festival Site in Liverpool. Major leisure developments in sensitive landscapes such as Cameron House and The Carrick Golf Course on the banks of Loch Lomond within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park together with a number of sports stadia and complexes such as the new Anfield for LFC and Chelsea FC’s training academy at Cobham. Plus delivered high end public realm works and bespoke private residencies. Through the many projects Steven’s role has evolved from design to managing design teams, developing designs into viable and effect construction packages and procurement of contractors to project management on both client side and within construction teams. This has created strong relationships within supply chains and amongst specialist sub consultants. This comprehensive experience and associated knowledge are major assets in reducing risk during project delivery.

Steven is currently working freelance.

Selected Projects:

Parks & Public Realm Projects

Stanley Park, Liverpool.

Stanley Park is a 45ha listed park, designed by Edward Kemp opening in 1870. It is significant among Liverpool’s park due to its layout and architecture, containing grand terraces, lakes, walks and expansive bedding schemes with fountains. Steven worked closely with LFC, LCC and English Heritage and played a pivotal role in its restoration through design and site monitoring.

Liverpool International Garden Festival.

The IGF originally opened from May to October in 1984. After the initial success it went through a series of failed leisure projects and lay untouched for almost 20 years. Through funding from Langtree Developments and the NWDA the gardens were restored with major new interventions introduced. Steven managed the design team working closely with local communities and the original Japanese garden designers whilst being novated to the contractor in order to maintain the spirit of important retained elements.

Experience:

2013 - Present Peracto Projects

2002 - 2013 Planit I.E. Ltd

2001 - 2002 Landmark EDI

1992 - 2001 Tyton Design Ltd 1990 - 1991 Clifton Design

1985 - 1990 BAM

Interests:

• Travel. Europe and the Indian subcontinent are two favourites.• The Arts. Reading, music and films. • Current Affairs.

M : 07879 485 662E : steventdawson@hotmail.co.uk

Private Residencies

Mobberley Old Hall.

Cheshire : Parts of this beautiful residence date from the 17th Century, the most obvious of which within the gardens is the remnants of a moat. This has been restored and brought back to life with aeration systems and fish life. Else where a maze has been introduced, manicured lawns, extensive herbaceous perennial beds, a bridge over the moat to connect gardens to the house and large wildflower meadows on the approach to the house. A large courtyard has been created within the stables to connect the converted stables to the original house. The redevelopment of the external areas took place over a number of years with Steven taking responsibility for management of the design team and implementation of the works.

Blythe Hall, Lancashire.

Blythe Hall is a large grade II listed country house, it was probably built in the late 16th Century or early 17th Century and has extensive grounds. The client comprehensively redeveloped the gardens, the main drivers being providing a sympathetic setting for the house and leisure opportunities for the family, friends and to accommodate major charity events. Large lawns with mature tree planting were introduced with formal water bodies. A sunken 5 aside astro pitch with terraced seating, together with tennis courts and peripheral privacy planting were introduced. Existing ponds were drained regraded with filter beds introduced. A gallops and helicopter landing pad completed the works. Steven managed the design team, contractor procurement and monitored site works.

Sports and Leisure

The Ridge Golf Club, Kent.

Steven was responsible for the golf course architecture and landscape architecture for the project and was resident on site throughout the construction in a design / construction management role. This parkland course receives much acclaim due in large part the mature apple orchards that it sits within, the site was previously a redundant apple farm. The orchards and their poplar shelter belts provide an instant wooded back drop to the course and have been brought into production where viable blocks exist.New lakes were created as for both visual benefit and to provide reservoirs for the course irrigation. Making the course self sufficient in terms of irrigation, which was essential for its financial viability.

Cameron House, Loch Lomond.

Cameron House Hotel and Golf Course is a world renowned five star leisure complex on the banks of Loch Lomond, within the National Park. With a historical hotel, luxury time share lodges. Additional leisure activities include fishing, shooting and walks. Whilst working at Tyton Design Steven lead the team that carried out detailed environmental and historical audits of the estate. This base line information was used to inform the redevelopment proposals, comprising time share lodges sat within the protected landscape, alterations to the golf course and a golf teaching facility within the walls of the old kitchen gardens.

Sports Stadia and Training Academies:

Chelsea FC, Cobham Training Complex.

Cobham is Chelsea FC’s non match day base and training complex for all levels within the club from junior teams to the first team squad. The brief was to provide instant privacy initially for the first team squad training pitches, upgrade the immediate environs to the main building and to design a formal lake that acted as a reservoir for the pitches irrigation. Steven worked direct to the main board on behalf of Planit-ie, designing and monitoring the site works. A week was spent in Germany selecting almost 200 semi mature trees some upto 80cm in girth, the trees were planted above pitch level to avoid undersoil heating, fibre optics and irrigation systems. To this end bespoke sub soil and top soil mixes were produced to plant the trees on and in. A fully automatic irrigation system was installed providing water to each of the trees and thundreds of meters instant hedging.

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Liverpool FC, New Stadium (AFL / HKS)

The proposals for the creation of a new stadium for LFC were intrinsically linked to the restoration of Stanley Park, as the new stadium was to be located to the margins of the park and the club being one of the funders for the works. Steven acted as a link between both projects and managed Planit’s design team for the external works element of the stadium package. Great emphasis was placed upon accessibility for all, security and sustainability. Whilst the stadium package was never realised it was a great education, created lasting professional relationships with a wide range of specialist sub consultants and led to Steven being part of the successful bid team for Planit on the current redevelopment of Anfield.

Commercial and Retail:

New Brighton Development, Wirral.

This retail and leisure development sits immediately adjacent to the sea wall and is allegedly the second most windest foreshore in western Europe. This location has created one of the most difficult environments within which to establish plant life. Through his work at Planit on the project and latterly direct to the client and working closely with Tim O’Hare Associates Steven has developed a plant palette that is able to with stand the prevailing conditions. The complete site was flooded in 2013 when the sea breached the flood defences, this required extensive testing of retained soil and the introduction of bespoke soil mixes designed to allow reduced retention of salt and the successful establishment of selected grasses.

Sci-Tech Daresbury.

One of two National Science and Innovation Campuses established in 2006. In 2010 a new JV involving Langtree Developments was formed to develop and promote the campus. As part of these works upgrades to highways and peripheral landscaping was proposed and implemented. Due to the nature of the site these works required considerable planning and close liaison with site facilities management, Steven provided this role and monitored the site works. Buildings had to be demolished, involving bat survey’s and piecemeal works so that sensitive monitoring equipment within the site was not disturbed. The works are on going and should provide a campus all can be proud of.

Education:

Crawley Schools, West Sussex.

BAM retained Steven as a landscape consultant on this major PFI project to provide a number of secondary schools and a junior school. The site was originally agricultural land adjacent to a new housing estate, it contained a number of mature specimen trees that had to be retained requiring careful level solutions in order to maintain level access to classrooms. The development of the design required extensive consultation with the educational authorities and local authority ecologists and tree officers. Extensive sports facilities were provided within the constraints of the site levels and existing vegetation. The project successfully passed CABE reviews and is still standing the tests of time.

Fairway Primary School.

Is a community school, situated in the NW of the Borough of Barnet, near the A1 and adjacent to Mill Hill Golf Course. Designed by ACP Architects, the design of the building itself and most importantly its interface with a restricted sloping site required careful consideration of site levels. This manifested its self dramatically when external class rooms and play areas were being designed. Also located centrally to the building is a mature oak which had to be retained. Extensive retaining walls, often gabion walls were introduced to accommodate the constant falls across the site. These combined with an environmental green roof and timber cladding to the building have softened the building mass within the green belt allowing it to ‘nestle” into the ground. The perimeter woodland belt was carefully retained and an ecological teaching area with ponds introduced.

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