Liz Lake Associates

What Liz Lake Associates does

Liz Lake Associates is a UK-based landscape architecture and landscape planning consultancy founded by Liz Lake in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, with a second office in Bristol, and operates across East Anglia, Cambridge, London, the Midlands, South West England, South Wales, with selective commissions in Oxfordshire and France. It has completed more than 2,000 landscape design and planning projects over the past three decades and employs over 20 dedicated team members, including chartered landscape architects, associate and senior practitioners, and a Practice Manager. The leadership team comprises Founder Liz Lake, Director of Landscape Planning Mark Flatman, Design Director Sean Vessey, and Associate Director Andrew Ferguson.

The firm's service portfolio covers ten core and specialised practice areas: masterplanning, residential landscape design, public realm and urban design, hotel and leisure, education and research, private gardens and estates, heritage landscapes, wellbeing landscapes for care settings, crematorium and places of worship, and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA). Service delivery follows a holistic methodology spanning initial visioning, context assessment, strategic and sustainable design, and creative solutions, with technical specialisms in LVIA per Landscape Institute standards, heritage conservation management plans, and visualisation. Distribution is direct professional consultancy, with the firm embedded in multi-disciplinary teams alongside architects (Witherford Watson Mann, Nash Partnership, Jestico + Whiles), contractors (SDC), and surveyors (Debois Landscape Survey Group).

The revenue model is straightforward professional services fees on a project-by-project basis, with no public pricing disclosed. The firm serves a diverse client mix across residential developers (L&Q, Vistry Partnerships, Notting Hill Genesis, Dorchester Living, Sanctuary, Watford Community Housing), hospitality (The Grove Hotel), education (NIAB, Cotton End Primary School), and heritage/estate owners. Customer acquisition relies on long-tenured relationships (some dating to the 1980s), repeat mandates on phased developments, regional network effects across East Anglia and the South West, and visibility through industry awards (BALI Principal Award 2024, multiple Gold/Silver/Bronze awards 2024–2025). The firm is privately held with no external investors or parent company disclosed.

Name

Liz Lake Associates

Legal name

Liz Lake Associates

Website

https://lizlake.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UK landscape architecture and planning consultancy founded in 1985, delivering masterplanning, residential design, public realm, heritage, LVIA and wellbeing services to developers, hotels, education and public-sector clients from offices in Stansted Mountfitchet and Bristol.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture
• Landscape planning
• Masterplanning services
• Urban design
• Heritage conservation

Headquarters

HQ city

Stansted

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Landscape Architecture Consultancy Services: Professional fees for landscape architecture and planning services including masterplanning, residential landscape design, public realm projects, heritage landscape work, education and research facility landscapes, hotel and leisure projects, private gardens and estates, wellbeing facilities, crematorium and places of worship.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Liz Lake Associates is a landscape architecture and landscape planning consultancy that designs outdoor environments for residential, public realm, hotel and leisure, education, heritage, wellbeing and crematorium projects. From offices in Stansted Mountfitchet and Bristol, the firm delivers masterplanning, residential landscape design, public realm design, heritage landscape conservation, urban design, private gardens and estates, and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) services. The firm works as part of multidisciplinary design teams alongside architects, planners, engineers and ecologists, and has completed over 2,000 projects in 30 years.

Product overview

Liz Lake Associates is a landscape architecture and planning consultancy offering a comprehensive portfolio of services delivered through specialized practice areas. The company provides Masterplanning (holistic sustainable design for projects of any scale), Residential Landscape Design, Public Realm and Urban Design, Hotel & Leisure, Education and Research, Private Gardens & Estates, Heritage Landscapes (including LVIA services), Wellbeing (care home landscapes), and Crematorium & Places of Worship. Founded in 1985 with offices in Stansted and Bristol, the firm has completed over 2,000 landscape design and planning projects in 30 years, serving clients across East Anglia, Cambridge, London, the Midlands, Bristol, South Wales and South West England.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Masterplanning Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2,000 landscape design and planning projects completed in 30 years
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Debois Landscape Survey GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership with Debois Landscape Survey Group on heritage landscape projects. Worked together on over fifty heritage landscape schemes, including Inheritance Tax Exemption schemes and agri-environment projects for private owners. Notable collaboration on Highclere Castle Conservation Management Plan.
• SDC ContractorscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerOngoing working relationship with SDC Contractors for construction delivery of landscape projects. Currently working together on Peterhouse Technology Park and Whittle Laboratory projects.
• Tooley Foster PartnershipcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnership with Tooley Foster Partnership on Caxton Works development in Canning Town for Galliard Homes. Collaborative design delivery on this 2.2 acre mixed-use project.
• Nash PartnershipcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerClose working relationship with Nash Partnership on The Old Brewery redevelopment in Bristol. Collaborated on public and private realm design sensitive to historic setting.
• Change Real EstatecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerWorked with Change Real Estate on The Old Brewery redevelopment in Southville, Bristol - modern commercial and residential development with historic brewery buildings.
• Witherford Watson Mann ArchitectscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCollaborated with Witherford Watson Mann architects on Clare College, Cambridge retrofit project. Project featured in Architects Journal and involved landscape proposals and planting scheme for historic college.
• Jestico + Whiles and CordecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerWorking alongside architects Jestico + Whiles and Corde on Heyford Park masterplan for Dorchester Living - providing over 1,000 new homes on former airfield.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Gillespies: Gillespies is one of the UK's largest dedicated landscape architecture practices with offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Abu Dhabi. It is a direct peer, offering comparable masterplanning, public realm, residential, and heritage landscape services to enterprise clients across multiple sectors.
• Grant Associates: Grant Associates is a UK landscape architecture practice with offices in Bath, London, and Sydney, specializing in parks, public realm, residential, and masterplanning projects. Comparable to Liz Lake in its residential and heritage focus, but with broader international reach.
• Farrer Huxley Associates: Farrer Huxley Associates is a London-based landscape architecture practice working on residential, public realm, and education projects. Direct peer competing for similar UK developer and institutional clients in London and the south east.
• J&L Gibbons: J&L Gibbons is a London-based landscape architecture practice focused on public realm, urban design, and masterplanning. Direct peer competing for similar urban regeneration, public realm, and education sector clients in the UK.
• Tyler Grange: Tyler Grange is a UK landscape, ecology, and arboriculture consultancy with offices across the south west, midlands, and south east. Direct peer providing LVIA, landscape planning, residential, and ecological services to developers and local authorities — a likely direct competitor in Liz Lake's geographic footprint.
• Bradley-Hole Schoenaich Landscape: Bradley-Hole Schoenaich is a London-based landscape architecture practice with a strong heritage and garden design pedigree. Direct peer with overlapping private estates, heritage, and high-end residential work, competing for similar premium clients.
• Land Use Consultants (LUC): LUC is a UK-based consultancy providing landscape architecture, planning, environment, and heritage services. It is a direct peer with overlapping service offerings in LVIA, masterplanning, residential, and heritage landscape — operating at a larger scale with multiple UK offices.
• Churchman Thornhill Finch: Churchman Thornhill Finch is a UK landscape architecture practice with offices in London and Cambridge. Direct peer with overlapping residential, public realm, and heritage services, competing for similar UK-based developer clients.

Broad incumbents

• Stanton Williams: Stanton Williams is a London-based architecture and masterplanning practice with deep landscape integration on heritage, education, and residential projects. Broader incumbent that competes with Liz Lake on multidisciplinary design teams for large institutional clients like Clare College and The Grove.

Emerging players

• Mw外出 Saunders Boston: (Note: skipping this peer due to uncertainty)

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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