David Singleton
Landscape Architect

David Singleton’s experience covers a wide range of environmental design and management practice, from planning scale down to detailed design working with commercial, voluntary and public sector clients.  He is an advisor to CIRIA in the on Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and worked on the CIRIA SuDS Manual.   He is an author of the NHS/Homes England’s Building for a Healthy Life.  This has now been adopted by over half of England’s local authorities. 

David set up DSA Environment + Design in 2005.  His geographical background has enabled him to focus the practice on his particular interest of bringing people and the environment together to make places.  He believes that the creation of carefully considered well-managed blue-green infrastructure is an effective way to do this.

David’s intention is to be always at the leading edge of innovative work and thinking.   He teaches at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.  He is a member of the Design Midlands Design Review Panel and past chair of the Landscape Institute, East Midlands.  He has given talks on SuDS planning, design and management of SuDS/WSUD in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Australia and China. 

DSA projects have picked up many design awards including Building Better Healthcare, Design in Mental Health, RICS, LABC, and ProCon.  Forest Way School won the national Best New Build Primary School award in The Times Education Supplement.  Numerous projects are CIRIA susdrain case studies.