About Shaun
Shaun Walsh is a qualified landscape architect with over 30 years experience in landscape architecture, town planning and environmental management. Shaun is permanently based in the Noosa Hinterland and works from his studio in a large garden setting in Black Mountain, Noosa Shire, with a dedicated focus on landscape architectural services in the Sunshine Coast, Mary Valley and Wide Bay Areas. He draws from his diverse career for local, state and federal government as well as private consultancy. Career highlights include:
- CEO, City Parklands (South Bank Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane)
- Environmental Manager (Acting) Noosa Shire Council
- Director and President of Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)
- Director Oxley Creek Transformation P/L
- Design Manager (Landscape Architecture), PLACE Design Group, Brisbane
- Environmental Manager, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart
- Environmental Manager, City Design, Brisbane City Council
- Town Planner, Noosa Shire Council and Maroochy Shire Council
His regional landscape architecture work of note of the last 2 decades includes:
- Cooran Streetscape – Concept Design and Design Development
- Peregian Beach Village – Concept Design and Design Development
- Cooroy Lower Mill Site – Site Master Plan and Design Development
- Pomona Precinct Plan, Pomona
- Station Place, Noosa Landcare Hinterland Hub, Station Street Pomona
- Concept Design and Design Development, Private Garden, Willawong Place, Cooran
- Concept Design and Design Development, Private Garden, Tallowwood Place, Black Mountain
- Surfers Paradise Foreshore Redevelopment
- Fitzgibbon Chase Parklands
- South Bank Parklands Master Plan (as client)
- Roma Street Parklands Master Plan (as client)
- South Bank Parklands, Riverside Green Playground (as client)
- South Bank Parklands, Pool Surrounds Upgrade (as client)
- Roma Street Parklands, Children’s Playground (as client)
Shaun is also keen gardener of many decades standing, with his own gardens featuring in the former Open House Garden Scheme (Annerley, Brisbane), ABC Gardening Australia (Hobart Tasmania) and feature published in “Foreground” (Cooran, Queensland)
Shaun is also committed to his local community and sustainability. He is an active volunteer with the Noosa and District and Landcare with a dedication to the use of locally native plants in his gardens and design work.
