SoilsCon, the
landscape industry’s ‘go to’ conference for soil-related topics, will be
returning once again to the elegant Phyllis Court in Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire, on Thursday, 26th
September.
This year’s event
will be the fourth soils conference to be organised by soil scientist and
landscape consultant Tim O’Hare, and it promises landscape architects and
specifiers, contractors, garden designers, developers, topsoil manufacturers,
local government officers, and wider industry professionals a day of invaluable
professional development, discussion and debate, with presentations by some of
the country’s leading experts in their respective fields.
This year’s speaker
line-up features:
- Tim
O’Hare, Principal, Tim O’Hare Associates
- Tim
White, Senior Associate, Tim O’Hare Associates
- Simon
Leake, Managing Director, SESL Australia
- Neville
Fay, Founder/Director, Sustainable Soils Alliance
- Sarah
Morgan, Chair, Society of Garden Designers
- Andy
Spetch, National TOPSOIL Manager, British Sugar TOPSOIL
- James
Hewetson-Brown, Managing Director, Wildflower Turf
Subjects will
include:
- Establishing low
fertility habitats, referencing low phosphorous soils in Australia
- Reversing the current
crisis in soil health by using soils sustainably
- Problems with soils
on new housing developments and how to avoid them
- The soils project
planning cycle that every landscape and construction professional should follow
This year’s
conference will again include a Soil Surgery, held during the day’s networking
periods. Members of the Tim O’Hare Associates team will be on hand to help
delegates with their specific soil issues.
The final programme
and conference details will be issued shortly but to express your interest in
attending, please email info@toha.co.uk or
call 01491 822653
