About

Anna French Associates is a landscape architecture practice headed up by Anna French along with our dedicated team of landscape architects. We are a highly skilled and service-orientated practice, we want to take care of your projects getting the best results for your budget, maintaining a high-quality finish and producing a landscape that works for the people who will use it, as well as enhancing the local environment.  

We offer a comprehensive service, managing projects from inception to completion, we are particularly skilled in steering schemes through the planning system and providing the technical detailing needed for construction. 

Our focus is mainly on residential and mixed-use urban developments and we work extensively on projects in London and Birmingham in particular. As well as urban developments, we regularly undertake garden/landscape design for hotels, elderly care facilities and educational establishments.

Our areas of specialist expertise lie in ecological design and technical detailing. 

In 2019 we signed up to Landscape Architect’s Declare and campaigned for the Landscape Institute to do likewise. We are working hard to reduce the carbon footprint of our practice and learn more about the low-carbon materials we will be specifying in the future. 

Awards winning projects

St Chads – RIBA East Award 2018
Bracelet Close – Civic Trust Awards Commendation 2018
The Echoes – RIBA East Award 2017
Bruyn’s Court – RIBA East and National Awards 2016
Bruyn’s Court – Civic Trust Awards Commendation 2016

The Team

Anna French

CMLI - BSc(Hons) DipLA in Landscape Architecture and Ecology

Managing Director

Anna set up AFA in 2011 with a desire to provide excellent, client-focused services in landscape architecture. The practice has come a long way since then and we are now working on some exciting and challenging projects in London, Birmingham and around the UK. Anna studied at the University of Sheffield, which had an emphasis on ecological design which is proving ever more relevant in today’s world.

Alexia Lechat

MSc Diploma in Landscape Engineering

Senior Landscape Architect

Alexia trained at the Agrocampus Ouest, in Angers, France. She has been with AFA since 2018 and is an experienced and highly skilled landscape architect. Her Engineering training gives her excellent technical and problem-solving skills. She is currently heading up our largest and most complex projects and coordinating the work of the team to meet budget requirements and deadlines.

Magda Zwierzynska

MSc in Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architect

Magda studied at Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. She is a talented and conscientious landscape architect who has worked on many schemes from concept design to completion on-site and also has experience in garden design and maintenance. Magda is currently working on a broad portfolio of projects in design and planning including some of our large London residential schemes. 

Han Cai

MA in Landscape Architectural Studies

Landscape Architect

Han studied her Masters degree at the Newcastle University in the UK where she particularly enjoyed learning about landscape construction. She has worked on a wide range of projects involving design and construction in China. Han is currently working on some of our most bespoke and challenging residential schemes providing technical and illustrative drawings.