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Survey 2008

The South West branch of the Landscape Institute is about to begin developing its Action Plan for 2008/09, using the LI Development Plan, Strategic Objectives 2008/09 Priorities as its base. Can you all complete this and return to Nola by 28th May 2008.

There's a Word version for attaching to an email to chair@lisw.org.uk or a pdf version for printing it and returning it Nola O'Donnell c/o Kerrier District Council, Dolcoath Avenue, Camborne, TR14 8SX.

AGM 2008

12pm lunch, 1pm meeting on Saturday 19th April at Killerton House (National Trust), near Exeter. The AGM will be followed at 2pm by a tour of the gardens, which were laid out in the 18th Century by landscape designer and plantsman John Veitch, by the Head Gardener. Families welcome. Contact paul.osborne@exeter.gov.uk with numbers by 11th April and see Events page.

CPD Questionnaire Results

Thanks to all LISW Members who recently participated in the CPD survey by returning completed questionnaires. Over 50 questionnaires were returned and the collated results along with results collected from all the other branches give a picture of the CPD aspirations of members across the country.

Very briefly, respondents reported that employers are largely very supportive of CPD events, with many holding in-house seminars. Sustainability and statutory requirements / new legislation were ‘top of the pops’ of subject areas to brush up on. Distance is the biggest barrier to attending events, with (not surprisingly) the bigger towns and cities being the most popular locations, i.e Portsmouth, Winchester, Bath, Bristol and Southampton.

We can now look forward to seeing what the overall picture is and how this will shape the restructuring of our CPD system. View the Results
Revealed! the LISW Action Plan (draft)
This sets out the actions we aim to complete, and states how these fit into the overall Development Plan of the Institute.

LISW now have a full-colour newsletter! Click to view the May 2007 issue as a .pdf file.

If you wish to print it, use A3 paper, landscape format. The January 2007 and June 2006 issues are still available for viewing.

 

'Evolving Spaces', the Landscape Southwest book published in summer 2004 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Landscape Institute, has been widely acclaimed. It is an excellent means of communicating to those outside the profession the breadth of work that landscape architects are involved in.

To purchase your own copy of this A5 book, which contains more than 100 full colour photographs of landscape projects associated with the south west region over the past 75 years, contact Liz Ford on LizF@lisw.org.uk.

As a special promotion, copies are now available for only £2.50 plus postage and packing, or alternatively may be purchased direct at any Landscape Southwest event.