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The School’s Principal, Rob Whitehead, has over 20 years' design and business experience and runs his own successful design consultancy alongside teaching the majority of the Diploma garden design course ...
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Our Lecturers

The quality of all our lecturers is reflected in the quality of our teaching. All the School’s lecturers are successful practising designers and project managers, with real passion for what they do. They are all professionally qualified, specialists in their field, with a wealth of knowledge to share with students. We choose our lecturers not only because of their design skills and experience, but also because of their teaching ability; all have excellent communication skills.

Rob Whitehead

Rob is one of only a handful of people within the garden design profession to hold both a Masters degree in Garden and Landscape Design and registered membership of the Society of Garden Designers

Diane Pyper

Diane has many years’ experience of both teaching and design

Andrew Newland

We are lucky to have Andrew, a surveyor and project manager, as one of our lecturers

Gill Bassett

A solicitor turned garden designer, Gill has a particular understanding of the many legal issues to touch on garden design

Christopher Pickard

A former Vice Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers, Christopher is very well known within the garden design world

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What our students say ...
"I think the Diploma course is excellent and great value for money"

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