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ONE Environments

ONE Environments is an award-winning, employee-owned landscape architecture and urban design practice based in Newcastle upon Tyne, working with clients and collaborators across the UK.

Our strength is the combination of clear design vision, nature-based problem solving, commercial intelligence and technical discipline. Clients trust us to work within complex planning, programme, funding and operational environments while maintaining clarity, coordination and design quality.

Our work takes us from schools, universities and hospitals to defence estates, city streets, energy infrastructure and open countryside. Across these very different settings, we use landscape to turn constraints around water, levels, ecology, climate, access and existing assets into opportunities for better places.

Rooted in the North East, our reach is national. Long-standing relationships mean clients, contractors and design partners regularly invite us to work with them again in different regions, sectors and programmes. We value directness, curiosity, craft and collaboration, and believe the best work comes from good relationships, careful observation and people who care about the outcome.

Sailors Bethel

Our studio is based within Sailors Bethel, a listed landmark on Newcastle’s Quayside.

Working within this distinctive structure reflects our independence and long-term outlook. Its material presence and relationship to the river reinforce our belief that landscape and architecture are inseparable from context, memory and civic life.

From here, we collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, planners, environmental specialists and clients.

Why One – About One Environments

Employee Ownership

As an Employee Ownership Trust practice, responsibility for the quality and future of ONE is shared across the studio.

Employee ownership reinforces collaboration, accountability and long-term thinking. It gives our people a genuine stake in the practice they are helping to build and strengthens our commitment to investing in skills, relationships and quality over the long term.

Life At One – About One Environments
  • Design led.
  • Nature based.
  • Technically assured.
  • Rooted in the North.
  • Trusted across the UK.
  • Grounded in people and place.
  • Designed to Connect & Inspire.

The ONE Environments Team

Team & Leadership

The practice is led by founding Directors Jon Eachus and James Brewer, alongside Adrian Clarke, Director of Technical and Operations, supported by Principals and specialists across design, planning, digital coordination and project delivery.

Leadership combines strategic oversight with active project involvement, helping maintain design quality, technical consistency and a direct relationship between clients and senior members of the practice.

  • Yutong (Lee) Li

    Yutong (Lee) Li

    Project Landscape Architect

  • Peter Armstrong

    Peter Armstrong

    Principal

  • Pedram Abedini

    Pedram Abedini

    Senior BIM Coordinator

  • Niranjana Balachandran

    Niranjana Balachandran

    Graduate Landscape Architect

  • Kyle Piper

    Kyle Piper

    Project Landscape Architect

  • Neil Bancroft

    Neil Bancroft

    Principal

  • Nguyen

    Nguyen

    Graduate Landscape Architect

  • HoChing (Tina) Lee

    HoChing (Tina) Lee

    Project Landscape Architect

  • Keith Jex

    Keith Jex

    BIM Technician

  • Gayathri Suseel

    Gayathri Suseel

    Graduate Landscape Architect

  • Helen Summers

    Helen Summers

    Project Coordinator

  • James Brewer

    James Brewer

    Director

  • Jon Eachus

    Jon Eachus

    Director

  • Adrian Clarke

    Adrian Clarke

    Director

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