Woodland Design & Landscape

Masterclass Objectives


Plan Vision offers bespoke training through masterclasses that are designed for people from a wide variety of backgrounds who are working on national tree planting programmes. The masterclass covers landscape principles of woodland design, and forest design in relation People, Water, Biodiversity, Historic Environment, Soils, Climate Change (the elements of the UK Forestry Standard). It also covers the process of producing a design and the plan based documentation.


Roger has distilled his woodland design and landscape experience to create this one-day masterclass, which he has run for the :-

  • MOD
  • Great Western Community Forest
  • Greenwood Community Forest
  • and The Mersey Forest.

The masterclass can be commissioned for other organisations and adapted to suit specific requirements. Roger also offers a one-hour on-line introduction to Woodland Design and Landscape for organisations/teams.

A sample of the masterclass agenda is available here.



If you would like to discuss your particular requirements please feel free to make contact.

Experience in this field

Roger has the following indepth experience:- 



  • Policy, practice, guidance in developing/delivering UK Forestry Standard landscape training for Woodland Officers and across the forest industry.
  • Training and mentoring for Forestry Englands' Planning Foresters.
  • Advised on the most complex landscape grant applications for Forest Services.
  • Design thousands of hectares of community forests in the Red Rose, Mersey Forest, Thames Chase and National Forest. Roger worked on the South Yorkshire and Notts County Council coalfield restoration programme in the late 1990s and more recently with Forest Research on landfill restoration.
  • Designed woodlands for public access and recreation, large and small (e.g. Jeskyns Wood - 150ha).
  • Community consultation and stakeholder engagement.


Plan Vision has delivered woodland creation projects across the south west of England, the Chilterns, the South Downs, Exmoor and Dartmoor National Parks, and a China Clay tip restoration scheme near St Austell.


Roger has :-

  • Worked for Scottish Forestry on the revision of the landscape chapter of the UK Forestry Standard.
  • Co-authored a revision to FC Handbook 11 ‘Creating and Managing Woodlands Around Towns’ for Forest Research.
  • Produced illustrations to supplement the Forestry Commission’s England Tree Planting Programme, showing woodland design that reflects different kinds of landscape character.