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Team Members
Linda Nunn - AONB Manager
Since leaving Nottingham University, Linda has worked in the field of countryside management in Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside before moving to Dorset as a Head Ranger in 1988. In October 2000, she started work, on behalf of the Local Authorities involved, to help develop the new AONB Partnership and Management Plan for Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. David Blake – Project Development Officer
David joined us just before Christmas as a much needed addition to the team. He grew up near Salisbury and went to school close to Wimborne; then trained as a gamekeeper for several years, attending Sparsholt College near Winchester to study game and fishery management. He went on to set up a private wildlife reserve in County Cork, Ireland and then returned to the UK to take an honours degree in wildlife biology. David has also been, at various times, a teacher, a sawyer’s mate, a gardener and has travelled to research and study protected landscapes in the USA and France. The last six years have been spent living in Cornwall where he was working for the Forestry Commission. When David is not at his desk in the office, he is most likely to be deer stalking, photographing wild plants or digging the vegetable patch at his home in Fonthill Gifford. Anne Carney - Community Link Officer
Anne grew up in rural Northern Ireland and gained an ecology degree from the University of Ulster. Her first job was with Oldham and Rochdale Groundwork Trust, an urban fringe regeneration charity, carrying out habitat surveys and working with local communities to enhance their environments. She then fulfilled a lifelong ambition to visit Australia and worked as a volunteer in a National Park just outside Melbourne for several months. Upon her return to the UK, Anne became the first Countryside Management Officer for Purbeck District Council. Latterly Anne has worked for Dorset County Council as an Assistant Cycling Officer, South Somerset District Council as a Countryside Planner and for the Rural Community Council for Hampshire as a Community Resources Adviser. Richard Burden - Landscape and Planning Advisor
Richard has an MSc in Conservation, and is a chartered landscape architect specialising in landscape planning and management. Richard has spent much of his career working with the Heritage Coast and AONB landscapes in and around Dorset and the south-west region. He has experience of the private sector as well as public service, and also combined consultancy with University lecturing for six years. He has particular interests in sustainable development and landscape character assessment, and in addition to policy formulation has provided landscape appraisals for Local Plan Inquiries and planning applications and appeals. Probably his largest project was the Wytch Farm Oilfield in the Dorset AONB. He helped co-ordinate the group of officers from the constituent Local Authorities for this AONB in its early days. Nicky Matthews - Communications Officer
Since studying hotel and catering at Portsmouth Polytechnic Nicky went on to have a career in hospitality sales and marketing. As her family grew she established a mail order niche toy business before deciding that running her own company was putting too many constraints on family life. With this in mind she decided to get out into the open and discover more about the beautiful region of Cranborne Chase and the West Wiltshire Downs in which she lives. Emma Rouse – Historic Landscape Characterisation Project Officer
Emma joined the team in January 2007, and has a MA in Archaeological Surveying. She has spent time working as an archaeologist in County Durham, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, as well as working on various projects abroad. |
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