Karli Edmondson
Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 2:14 pm

HLM Architects has appointed a new landscaping expert in its Belfast office, Jonathan Assorto-McIlwaine, and landscape architect Hannah Glanvill in its Cardiff office. 

Jonathan has joined the practice from RPS Planning and Environment, also in Belfast, where he was involved in a range of major landscaping projects throughout Ireland, ranging from city centre public realm to large housing developments and motorway construction projects. He has specialised in landscape management and before joining RPS worked at Bradford MDC and McIlwaine Landscape Architects.

 Hannah Glanvill joins the practice from Bath-based practice Grant Associates.  She has wide ranging experience gained both in the UK and internationally and has handled a variety of high profile projects. These included the Olympics 2012 Velopark in London, the headquarters of the Woodland Trust in Grantham and the Bath Western Riverside urban quarter. She was also part of the Bath University Campus 2020 masterplanning team and was involved in the masterplanning of Al Mansura, Libya.

 Hannah’s first project on joining HLM will be the £700m Defence Technical College at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. The development, which affects a site of 298 hectares (721 acres), is HLM landscape division’s largest ever project. 

“Hannah’s wide experience, and particularly her masterplanning work, gives her work a breadth and maturity which will be invaluable to HLM, especially as we progress with the Defence Technical College.  Jonathan’s practical experience of managing projects, both on and off site, reinforces our ability not only to create innovative and workable designs but to make them a reality on the ground,” said HLM Director Karen Mosley.