§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the criteria for inviting people to become members of the landscape advisory committee; and if he will list the qualifications of each of the current members.
§ Mr. Kenneth Carlisle[holding answer 9 March 1993]: My right hon. Friend has set no specific criteria for inviting members to serve on the landscape advisory committee. Appointments are made so as to maintain a wide range of interests and expertise in landscape matters. Some of the qualifications of the current members are as follows:
Professor David K. C. Jones, BSc, FRGS appointed Chairman 1993
Professor of physical geography at the London School of Economics; consultant geomorphologist specialising in engineering, geomorphological mapping and landslide studies.Sir Henry E. Aubrey-Fletcher
Member of the council of Country Landowners Association; member of Agricultural Land Tribunal South East Area and the Bucks and Oxon Naturalist Trust Conservation Group.Professor Mary Benwell B.A., PH.D., F.C.I.T.
Head of School of Business at Oxford Brookes University; previously a Reader in Transport at Cranfield and a Research Director of a transport consultancy.Dr. John A. Bergg BSc phD C.ENG FICE
Recently retired from the post of County Engineer for Surrey County Council; currently a part time consultant for a civil enginering firm.Professor Gordon E. Cherry BA DSc (Hon) FRICS
674WRecently retired from the post of Head of the Geography Department at the University of Birmingham; now an independent traffic/planning consultant.Mr. Len J. Clark CBE
Chairman of the Youth Hostels Trust (Vice President Youth Hostel Association); member of Council for National Parks and Countryside Link; member of National Trust Council & Committees.Professor Monica M. Cole BSc Phd FIMM FRCS FGS
Retired Professor of Geography and Director of Research in Geobotany, Terrain Analysis and related resource use at the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Surrey.Mr. Geoffrey P. Crow BSc DipTE CEng FIHT MICE
Independent Transportation Planning Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Transport (part time) at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.Ms E. Evans AA Dipl (Hons) SADG RIBA TP
Partner in firm of architects; architect and town planner with experience in urban planning.Mr John V S Evans Dip.Arch DipLA RIBA ALI
Registered architect; consultant to the Travers Morgan Group since 1991; Former Partner of Travers Morgan Planning and Chairman of Travers Morgan Landscape; member of the Landscape Institute External Affairs Committee.Mr C Richard Ferens MA (CANTAB) FRICS
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Consultant with firm of Surveyors & valuers; a Vice-President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; valuer for the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and the Lord Chancellor's panel of Agricultural Arbitrators.Professor Peter J Fowler MA PHd FSA FRHistS MIFA
Professor of Archaeology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne; former Secretary to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England; currently Forestry Commission archaeological consultant; member of National Trust Council and Executive & Properties Committees.Mrs Elizabeth J Garland BA
Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (Sheffield, Peak District and South Yorkshire Branch); executive member for Council of National Parks (CNP); Chair of Development Panel of CNP.Mr Hugh J R Geddes MA RIBA MLA (USA)
Partner and director in firm of architects; Director Pilot Properties, specialising in housing schemes on derelict urban land.Mr Arthur D Gill
Vice-President of the Petersfield Society; member of the executive Committee of the Gwent Farming, Forestry and Wild Life Advisory Group; Director of RAC and is the nominee of the Joint Standing Committee of the RAC, AA and RSAC on the National Executive of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW); member of the Executive Committee of the Gwent branch of the CPRW.Mrs Janet Jack AA Dipl RIBA TP ALI
Former partner, now consultant to architect's practice; was responsible for the architectural and landscape proposals for the Channel Tunnel project.Mrs Patricia E Lunn CGLI FRSA
Head of Horticulture, Derbyshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture; working Partner in landscape and nursery business; independent member of Horticultural Development Council and Convenor of its Levy Appeals Panel since its formation in 1986; former member of the Women's National Commission and past National President, UK Federation of Business and Professional Women.Ms Wendy M Lutley MSc Adel (Eton Geol), BSc Lond (Geol)
Previously employed by the National Trust in management plan preparation for its open space properties and as a member of its biological survey team; more recently assistant 675W general secretary of the Open Spaces Society working on common land, urban open space and community action in the environment; author of the society's book "Making Space—protecting and creating open space for local communities'; now Co-director of Folk South West.Mr. Jim M. McCluskey BSc (Civil Engineering) MICE MISTRUCT MINT ALI
Director of McCluskey Associates, a landscape architectural and planning consultancy; experienced civil structural engineer and landscape architect; author of a number of books on environmental design including "Road Form and Townscape" and "Parking: An Environmental Design Handbook".Professor Margaret A. Mackeith MA PHD DIP TP DIP ARCH CONS FRTPI FRGS
Dean of the Faculty of Design and Technology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston; Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; Member of Institute of Environmental Science.Mr. Michael R. Porter OBE DIPLA FLI
Former Landscape Adviser to the Department of Transport which he served for 25 years.Miss Kay S. Powell BSc MSc MRTPI MINT
Corporate Support Officer, Chief Executive's Department South Glamorgan County Council.Miss Wendy E. Powell MLA FLI
In private practice as landscape architect and part time lecturer; nationally elected member of the Council of the Landscape Institute.Mrs. Valerie Russell BA (Hons)
Former Chair of the Council for National Parks; former Wealden District Councillor (Chair of the Personnel and Central Services Sub-Committee); member of the Institute of Directors, the British Institute of Management, Women in Management and the Sussex Archaeological Society.Mr. Martin O. Slocock BA
Director of Nursery business; former President of the Horticultural Trade Association 1967–70; member of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society since 1984; Chairman of the BSI Committee for Nursery Stock Production.Mr. Michael E. G. Taylor FCIT
Former Managing Director of transportation company; currently consultant to firm of parcels carriers; member of Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment, four Road Haulage Association committees and the Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Small Business.Mrs. Victoria R. Wakefield
Member of Committee `A' Royal Horticultural Society;Trustee Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.Mr. Roy W. Winter RIBA ALI DipArch DipLD
In private practice as a landscape architect; formerly landscape architect to Redditch new town development corporation; now course director of the diploma/MA in landscape architecture at Birmingham polytechnic.
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy that the maintenance period for landscaping on new schemes should be 36 months and that statutory environmental and heritage bodies should be consulted at the project brief stage of a road proposal.
§ Mr. Kenneth Carlisle[holding answer 9 March 1993]: It has been our policy for more than 10 years that the maintenance period for landscaping on new schemes should be 36 months. Consultation with the statutory environmental and heritage bodies already begins at a very early stage of scheme development.
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§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make freely available to both statutory and non-statutory objectors to road schemes the recommendations of the landscape advisory committee.
§ Mr. Kenneth Carlisle[holding answer 9 March 1993]: Committee reports on individual road schemes have for many years been available to any objector at public inquiry. Reports are now available, on request, to any interested party following the announcement of a preferred route.
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy that environmental consultants should be appointed as part of the consultancy team on all major schemes at the point at which the head engineering consultant is appointed.
§ Mr. Kenneth Carlisle[holding answer 9 March 1993]: Before we appoint consultants for major schemes we always ensure that they will have the necessary environmental expertise available.