JM Environmental
Landscape and historic building conservation
Our Projects
Clare Castle Country Park
Project management of a £2m National Lottery Heritage Fund restoration. Improvements include the restoration of the beautiful county wildlife site, the medieval moat, motte and bailey (scheduled ancient monuments) and the UK's only surviving complete complex of grade-II Victorian railway buildings.
Conservation enabled a series of heritage related community engagement events and activities, appealing to a wider, more diverse audience and volunteers.
Grand Etang, Boughton House
Partnering Miles Water Engineering to lovingly restore the 18th century reflecting pool, within over 400 acres of grade-I parkland on the 11,000 acre estate.
Orpheus, Boughton House
Working alongside Kim Wilkie (architect) and Miles Water Engineering (contractor) to construct 'Orpheus'.
Its serene lines of the sunken inverted pyramid invite you to descend into its depths and enjoy the tranquillity of the landform.
The Garden Museum
Project management of the £8.4m National Lottery Heritage Fund restoration of the deconsecrated grade- I church of St Mary-at-Lambeth (now Garden Museum).
The garden courtyard, designed by Dan Pearson, includes the grade-I burial tomb of John Tradescant, an early royal gardener and plantsman.
Holywells Park,
Ipswich Borough Council
Project management of the £3.5m National Lottery Heritage Fund regeneration of the town's hidden gem to conserve and enhance the park's unique heritage.
Improvements include re-modelling of the parkland, walled garden, a new visitor centre in the Stable Block, and the restoration of the Orangery to enable a series of events and activities that encourage its increased use by a wider and more diverse audience.
RSPB, Snape, Botany Marshes
Working alongside Stirling Maynard (engineer) and Miles Water Engineering (contractor) to create the 70ha wetland ecosystem with suitable reed bed habitat for Bittern and Marsh Harrier.
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS),
Bridgewater
Project management the restoration of the historic lake and construction of the Chinese stream, at the fifth RHS garden and one of the largest new gardening projects undertaken in Europe in recent years. The transformation of this 154-acre green space has enriched the lives of local communities and their environment for the future.
Tatton Park
Delivering a feasibility study relating to the restoration of the Mill Pond.
The estate includes 50 hectares of water and 161 hectares of woodland, including management of the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and RAMSAR (an intergovernmental convention for the conservation of wetlands) sites.
St Leonards, Flamstead
Project management of the £1.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund restoration of the beautiful C12 medieval church, enabling a series of heritage related events and activities that encourage its increased use by a wider and more diverse audience and volunteers.
New River Walk,
London Borough of Islington
Project management of the restoration of New River Walk, a 1200m canal originally constructed in the 1600’s to bring water from Hertfordshire to London. The restoration was driven by historic and cultural significance combined with ecological principles to encourage a healthy aquatic habitat and preserve the rivers’ place as a unique landscape feature and wildlife haven for the local community.
Heartwood Forest
Woodland Trust
Project management of the visitor experience and interpretation plan. The land was acquired in 2008, which consisted of farmland, predominantly oilseed rape fields and only 18 hectares (44 acres) of the site's total 347 hectares (860 acres) consisted of ancient woodland. To-date, the Trust have worked with local volunteers and school children to plant 600,000 trees.
St John, Hackney
Project management of the development phase of a £5.0m funding application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore the church. Funding resulted in delivery of a 'resource' church for the diverse community of Hackney.
The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Project management of the development and delivery of this £1.7m restoration. The medieval building is the oldest recorded civic building in the England.