Lottie Delamain

Director

Lottie started working life in textile design and spent six years living and working in South-East Asia working in fashion and homewares. On returning to the UK, Lottie retrained in Garden Design at the Inchbald School of Design, graduating with Distinction. Since then she has been working on gardens around the UK, from small urban spaces to historic estates and commercial developments.

Lottie is passionate about connecting people to the natural world and the underrated story-telling power of gardens. In May 2022, Lottie completed her first show garden at RHS Chelsea, A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution.

She has been featured widely in the press, talks and chairs panels on gardens and design, and regularly writes for House & Garden. Lottie is a big advocate for the power of gardens to enrich our lives, and is a trustee of We Are Grow a charity working with schools & communities delivering programmes in sustainable food growing & outdoor learning. Her first book, published by Thames & Hudson is out in Spring 2026.

Ben Brace

Landscape Architect CMLI

Ben is a Chartered Landscape Architect, Project Manager and Horticulturalist with 18 years experience across a range of projects and scales.

He spent several years at the Royal Horticultural Society playing a major role in delivering the Key Investment Projects, most notably at RHS Garden Bridgewater. More recently he has worked on the delivery of high end, complex landscapes, with a focus on commercial development projects throughout London.

A self-confessed plant nerd, Ben is a champion of community green spaces, Ben loves the challenge of integrating green infrastructure into urban sites and enabling equitable access for all.

Fred Tiffin

Garden Designer

Fred came to garden design from a career as a documentary producer working all over the world in news, current affairs and sport. He retrained at the London College of Garden Design at Kew, graduating with a distinction and then began his career at Cameron Gardens before joining the studio in 2024.

He is an avid gardener, passionate plantsman and devout believer in the capacity of nature to cure the soul. He learnt his love of romantic, naturalistic gardens from his father’s rose collection and has a gimlet eye for good design. Today his designs draw on many years of travelling, having visited over 70 countries and counting. When he’s not in the garden with his dog Olive, he might well be found at Stamford Bridge supporting his other love Chelsea.

Innova — transforming brownfield sites across London into a new generation of homes & greenspaces

Unlocking the potential of Network Rail land for homes designed for living with nature

We are delighted to have beem appointed to work across an ambitious portfolio of projects, delivering hundreds of new homes across London on forgotten and underurtilised Network Rail Land for Innova, a joint partnership between Network Rail and IJM Land.

The sites are all located in Central London and its inner suburbs and are situated above or adjacent to railways. It’s a fanatstic opportunity to apply our belief in the value of great green spaces at a larger scale, designing and delivering gardens, podiums and public relam that serve residents, the wider community and the natural world. It’s a huge honor to have a seat at the table in the regeneration key infrastructure sites across London.

The sites, which include Marylebone and Drayton Park, Islingston have the potential to deliver up to 320,000m² of development including a mix of housing, life sciences, student housing and a variety of commercial uses. In the region of 1,600 new homes could be created and the estimated gross development value of these projects is in excess of £3billion.

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