About Us
A new choice but not newcomers
Abseline was formed by Mark Evans and Mary Fisher in early 2023 after 10 years of working together as a team at other landscape practices.
Mary Fisher
Partner
Mary has over 22 years’ experience as a landscape architect. She has co-authored IEMA guidance relating to the integration of design and EIA, and Landscape Institute guidance on the use of visualisations and contributed to guidance regarding residential visual amenity assessment.
Mary specialises in providing landscape and visual impact assessments and is an experienced expert witness, having provided support to Inquiry witnesses for many years and acted as an expert witness herself in relation to wind projects, roads, residential and commercial development and solar farms. Her assessment work includes many housing developments; solar farms; infrastructure projects and distribution sites; wind projects across the UK; and the Arcelor Mittal Orbit sculpture. Mary is currently a member of the Landscape Institute GLVIA Advisory Panel and the Scottish Renewables Onshore Wind Policy Group.
Mark Evans
Partner
Mark is a chartered landscape architect with over 12 years’ experience in landscape planning for large scale infrastructure. Mark’s experience is diverse, ranging from LVIA and feasibility studies for energy and infrastructure projects through to residential appraisal and masterplanning, public/stakeholder engagement and park design.
Mark specialises in providing landscape and visual impact assessments and design of landscape mitigation. He has extensive experience working throughout the UK, under different planning and legislative regimes, and has particular expertise working on sites within or adjacent to sensitive landscapes including National Parks, NSA’s and AONBs. His experience includes providing support to Inquiry witnesses over a number of years, preparation of written evidence and acting as an expert witness.
Sam Hammersley
Senior Consultant
Sam is a chartered landscape architect with over 5 years of experience. He has worked on a wide range of high-profile landscape planning, master planning and design projects across the UK. Sam specialises in providing landscape and visual impact assessments and design advice, particularly for large-scale infrastructure and renewable developments. His portfolio of work encompasses multiple onshore wind farms, solar farms, grid and storage projects, nuclear energy facilities, airport developments, public realm design and a mixture of urban regeneration projects. He also has experience providing witness support for public inquiries.
Through his diverse portfolio of work Sam has developed an acute understanding of both the natural and built environment, enabling him to deliver successful projects that respond to the unique social and environmental qualities of a landscape.
