Steve Maslen
Director
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Short Biography
Steve Maslen studied Agricultural Environmental Science at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Following a year’s practical experience with the Council Architects' Department at North Tyneside, Steve returned to The University of Newcastle upon Tyne to study Landscape Architecture.
After gaining academic and professional qualifications as a Landscape Architect. Steve started his career as a Planning Officer with Macclesfield Borough Council. He later took up the position of Landscape Team Leader in the Land Reclamation Division of Wakefield City Council. His team worked on a range of coalfield related reclamation and restoration projects.
In 1988 Steve established his own landscape and environmental practice, Maslen Environmental. Steve has worked with the Environment Agency and its partners since 1999 on Humber related flood risk management issues, including the project management support for the Alkborough Flats project.
Steve is currently working for the Environment Agency and Natural England in the lower catchments of the Ouse, Don and Trent across the Humberhead Levels on projects which link flood risk management strategies with alternative land use planning. One project is looking at multifunctional benefits from alternative land and water management in particular how carbon sequestration might also assist the implementation of the regional Climate Change Action Plan.
Steve and his team at Maslen Environmental were originally brought in by a group of partners to take the work of the Value in Wetness Land Management Initiative forward across the Humberhead Levels in 2004. The Value in Wetness five year national project considered alternative land and water management options across the Levels. This work is now being taken forward by the Humberhead Levels and Moors Partnership. Steve and his team helped establish this Partnership of organisations working across 3 sub-regional areas.
The team continues to support the Partnership’s projects, working closely with; the Environment Agency, Natural England, Doncaster Council, North Lincolnshire Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, RSPB, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
As well as his role as Technical Director, Steve guest lectures and tutors at the Metropolitan University of Leeds to Landscape Architecture students. He is a committee member of the British Land reclamation Society and is a member of the Landscape Institute’s Education Annual Review Group, which accredits University courses in landscape architecture.
