Gary Holliday Fli

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT GARY HOLLIDAY FLI

Gary is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and has over 36 years experience with a wide range of landscape and environmental projects. Masterplanning and environmental assessment of large and complex schemes is an area of particular expertise.Gary has presented evidence at over 90 S278 appeals as an expert witness. Projects include residential development, employment, mixed use, highway, and energy schemes. In recent years much of the planning appeal work has been associated with residential development. Successful recent schemes include 500 new dwellings at the Wheatley Campus, Oxford Brooks University. The site was in the Green Belt and Gary provided evidence on landscape and Green Belt Openness. The scheme gained SoS approval. Also provided the character and appearance evidence at the 2021 appeal at Colney Heath, where consent for 100 dwellings was granted on a Green Belt greenfield site.Other residential schemes where Gary has been expert witness include include Long Melford Suffolk (150 units), Cliffe Woods Kent (225 units), Horncastle (300 units), Kirbymoorside North Yorkshire (225 units), Knaresborough (170 Units) Tutshill Gloucestershire (95 units) Boreham Essex (155 Units) and Sissinghurst Kent (65 Units).Gary has advised on minerals schemes including surface coal and provided expert witness advice for the Bradley surface mine site in County Durham. Evidence also provided for Emplyment, highways and wind energy schemes. Responsible for the landscape design of ‘Conkers’ the Forest Visitor attraction at the heart of the National Forest. The scheme includes a wide range of educational and leisure facilities, set within an arboretum of new woodlands, established on a former colliery site. Conkers won the Civic Trust Special Award for Partnership workingGreen Infrastructure Provision, including the detailed design and implementation of amenity spaces, play facilities and sports pitches has been completed for a number of large residential development schemes. These include Hatchwarren in Basingstoke units) and Cawston in Rugby units).Professional Practice Examiner for the Landscape Institute.