When working with us we promise to:
- Look closely
- Listen carefully
- Research diligently
- Communicate clearly
- Co-operate wholeheartedly
- Design with imagination and flair
- Consider sustainability
- Respect the environment
- Work proactively within project timetables &
- Rectify concerns quickly
THE STUDIO
Our practice was founded ten years ago, but with aspirations to form a practice together that went back to the mid 1980's when we found a common desire to design beautiful, sustainable landscapes among diverse environments.
Working separately for government organisations and private practices since the late 80's, we decided to set up the practice together in 2010. Since then we have grown our client base and enhanced our expertise in sports, educational and early years landscapes.
With an international and inter-generational blend of influences, we strive to remain exciting, modern, and relevant in every environment.
Our Experts
We have a wide variety of personal project experience for both public and private clients. We are able to assist all aspects of landscape design. We approach every project with freshness and vitality, and bring all of our skills to the
table every time.
GUY WALTERS
He gained his professional qualifications whilst working for the PSA in 1991. When the PSA was privatised he became a landscape associate with TPS Consult from 1994 before joining Abbey Holford Rowe in 1999. Guy became an Associate at AHR in 2003, shortly after the company changed its name to Aedas.
Guy was Regional Director of Aedas from 2007-2010 and had overall responsibility for the landscape output from the 4 UK landscape teams with in particular the Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. Originally working in Glasgow he grew his team sufficiently to move across to Edinburgh in 2008 where he was closer to home. During 2009-2012 Guy represented the Landscape Institute Scotland on the Edinburgh Urban Design Panel.
Guy set up The Sterry-Walters Partnership, with his wife Hannah, in December 2010. Hannah is also a qualified Landscape Architect with experience in, Private Practice, Charitable Organisations and Local Authority.
The aim of the new practice has been to be able to provide a more focused and personal approach to landscape projects and to offer closer support to clients than was possible under previous employment.
HANNAH WALTERS
Hannah is a Director of The Sterry-Walters Partnership Ltd. She is a Landscape Designer with over 10 years’ experience in the industry with a variety of organisations.
Following graduation, Hannah joined Guy in Cambridge and worked for The Groundworks Trust on a voluntary basis working with the community to design and build a playground on a derelict recreation area in the town. Moving, with Guy, to Scotland, Hannah worked for the Livingston Development Corporation on various groundworks and soft landscape projects where she gained valuable experience in the design of robust public planting schemes.
When LDC closed Hannah moved to private practice, using her groundworks and planting experience on a number of business and recreational projects throughout central Scotland.
While bringing up children she worked freelance for Crummock Homes, providing planting designs for housing developments within the Scottish Borders.
Hannah has in-depth experience of working within education as she managed an early years setting through the introduction of the Curriculum for Excellence and provides regular supply assistance in Nursery, Primary and High Schools in the Borders.
Since setting up S-WP Ltd with her husband, Hannah has specialised in outdoor education and is a member of Grounds for Learning.
Over the past three years Hannah has volunteered with the Borders Environmental Education Service (Instinctively Wild), with whom she gained a Forest Schools qualification, and now regularly leads woodland based natural play projects on behalf of Scottish Borders and East Lothian councils.