Welcome to the Landscape Institute Scotland Website. The Landscape Institute is the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture. Under its Royal Charter the Landscape Institute is charged with protecting, conserving and enhancing the natural and built environment for the benefit of the public by the planning, design and management of outdoor space.
The site features the latest news and events from Scotland as well as showcasing the best Scottish landscape architecture schemes. You can also search for a landscape architect in Scotland or look at current recruitment positions.
The Scottish Branch works to represent the interests of members and the environment to the Scottish Government, agencies, and the voluntary sector. This is increasingly recognised to be a series of major tasks, which realistically require a greater level of resources. Administrative support was provided by Edinburgh College of Art until its merger with the University of Edinburgh in August 2011. New arrangements are in hand and will be announced shortly (April 2012)
In recent years a number of responses to Government policy consultations have been submitted. The Branch is also well represented on bodies such as the Urban Design Panels in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Fife. In addition, we are represented on SEPA's Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Working Group.
When website and email arrangements permit, a wide range of seminars, courses and other CPD events of interest to members is publicised by the Branch, and this includes the annual series of Memorial Lectures named after David Skinner, founder of the Landscape Architecture course at ECA. It is intended to re-establish publicity about these events in the weeks ahead.