James is a Partner of HTA Design and established its landscape discipline in 2003. Today he directs the team across four studios. As an expert communicator he contributes to sector thought leadership. As a skilled collaborator, he steers HTA's projects, getting the best results from project teams.

Under James’ leadership, HTA has have delivered celebrated landscapes for housing, public realm and regeneration projects, from the Morningside Estate in Hackney, to the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark, where the diverse range of landscapes has set the tone for borough-wide design coding. 

 

Motivated by projects which serve a social purpose, James has restored iconic modernist parks in the southeast of England and has led the regeneration of Bexhill seafront and town as part of the strategic CABE Sea Change programme. Working in collaboration with the London Wildlife Trust at Cator Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, James has pioneered approaches to biodiversity with national impact. This work has been recognised with the ‘Sir David Attenborough Award for Enhancing Biodiversity’.

 

James has been an Elected Board member at the Landscape Institute, and is a member of the Hackney Design Review Panel.