Karen Pinckney joins Gillespies to lead the company's landscape planning team in the southern England region

Karen Pinckney BA Dip LA CMLI, an experienced landscape architect with over 25 years' experience, has joined Gillespies to lead its landscape planning team in the southern England region.

Gillespies is expanding its landscape planning team, building on its recent successful delivery of a number of major projects including Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station and National Grid's electricity network.

Karen joins Gillespies as head of planning after building her reputation as a highly-qualified expert witness, based on her landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA) expertise, across a variety of sectors.

Karen previously worked for AMEC Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited where her recent work included aviation projects, landscape character and capacity studies and landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA) for a series of windfarms and historic landscapes.