About us

Aileen Shackell Associates (ASA) ) is a landscape design practice formed in 2007. Our main work areas are public open space and working with community groups, and we are a leading provider of play design; Aileen Shackell was the lead author for Design for Play, published in 2009. Small complex projects are a speciality and working in the historic environment is a particular skill. Above all our aim is to make people feel happy and relaxed about their environments.

The practice is run on a Studio basis which means that we can offer attention to detail, continuity of service and the 'imprint' of one person on smaller projects; or for larger projects, working with a network of colleagues who are hand-picked for projects as appropriate. The practice also has well-established links with colleagues from other disciplines, from architects to ecologists and landscape historians.

Aileen Shackell the practice director qualified as a landscape architect in 1994 and has over 18 years' experience in both the private sector and with the environmental regeneration organisation Groundwork. Her particular interests are historic landscapes and play design. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts this year.

ASA has an office space in a Victorian building in the centre of Bridport, west Dorset and the practice works both in London and the West Country.