Our Team
Paul Greatorex BA MA MLitt PGCE MISPAL
Paul has been with LandE since 2000. Prior to his joining LandE he worked in Local Government for over 15 years, first at Lancaster City Council and then at South Somerset District Council (where he was the Community & Leisure Manager - responsible for Sport, Recreation, Play, Youth & Community Development work, Parks & Greenspace, and Countryside Services)
Paul is our play and youth facility specialist. He worked for 5 years as an activities organiser at an Adventure Playground in Lancaster and currently works on strategic play work at local, regional and national levels. He is a qualified mentor within Play England’s Quality in Play quality assurance scheme
On the home front Paul has a smallholding with a productive vegetable garden and keeps hens and a small flock of sheep. He is a keen hillwalker and cyclist
Graham Jones holds an honours degree in Town and County Planning and a Master of Philosophy degree in Social Science Research
Graham is a town planner by training and a sports and recreation planner by experience. He has worked in local government, for Sport England, and with a large private consultancy. He established Leisure and the Environment in 1996, and has since been involved in a wide range of sport and recreation planning projects
Graham is very interested in the geography of sport and recreation, and has devoted a lot of time in recent years to developing spatial analytical and presentational approaches to his work using GIS
At the personal level Graham enjoys turning the soil down at the allotment and cycling. He brews his own cider. Some other main likes: books, maps; family. Some dislikes: jargon; fiddly buttons; windbags
Peter Lane Dip TP MRTPI MISPAL MTMI
Peter is a chartered town planner with over 30 years experience in Local Government, initially in design, derelict land and conservation but more recently as head of leisure and tourism services
He has been responsible for a wide range of leisure services including libraries, museums, tourism, leisure centres, community leisure, children’s play, countryside and arts and events
He jointly established Destination Performance UK to provide a benchmarking and self help service for destination managers and still chairs the organisation, which has around 100 local authority members
He is also a member of the English Tourism Intelligence Partnership Board. At a European level, he is a member of the European Commission’s Tourism Sustainability Group and is a rapporteur for one of its working groups. Since leaving local Government he has followed his main interests in the leisure and tourism field, working on community engagement and the development of best practice guidance
Living just within a National Park makes his leisure time pursuits of walking and biking much easier. Family activities are also very important
Clair McFarlan holds a BSc Honours degree and a City and Guilds Diploma in Biological Surveying
Clair is a self- employed consultant. She previously worked for over eight years as the Ecologist for Solway Heritage in Dumfries. Prior to this Clair worked for Scottish Natural Heritage on the Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve and as an Area Officer working across Dumfries and Galloway
She also worked for various conservation charities including Lancashire Wildlife Trust and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
As an ecologist, Clair specialises in working with people and the environment
Previous work includes working with communities to develop environmental projects and provide interpretation, providing site management plans and feasibility studies, sourcing funding for environmental projects and events as well as managing a wide range of projects
On a more personal note Clair spends most of her spare time as a taxi driver for her two teenage children but enjoys gardening, cooking, reading and socialising with friends given half a chance!
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