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Uprising at Landscape Institute
28 May 2009 | By David Rogers
No-confidence vote in trustees sought over loss of
facilities
Landscape architects are backing a vote of no confidence against
senior managers at the Landscape Institute,
claiming financial mismanagement.
The required 20 signatories have requested an emergency general
meeting in a revolt being led by former
past-president Brian Clouston and the principal of Land Use
Consultants, Dominic Cole.
The proposal will be heard within the next two months and comes
after an outcry over the institutes recent
decision to close its archive and downsize its library to
balance the books.
The institute, which recently changed its constitution prompting
the switch from executive committee to
trustees, has also arranged a loan on its former headquarters
building at Battersea in London, now being let as
offices.
Dominic Cole
Cole said: We were told it was needed to replenish resources.
The previous reason was that the institute needed
the money. We keep getting new reasons.
The current situation seems to have declined in the past few
years under the same group on the executivecommittee who have now
been elected to the board of trustees. This is an uncomfortable
thing to ask to happen
but we believe they have to stand down.
Three motions have been drawn up, with the main one proposing a
vote of no confidence in the abilities of
former executive committee members, now elected unopposed to
form the board of trustees of the institute.
These are president-elect Jo Watkins, honorary secretary Keith
Rowe and honorary treasurer Colin Goodrum.
Cole is proposing an interim board be parachuted in until a
permanent board is elected.
Another signatory, Gabino Carballo, now based in Spain but who
worked in the UK for 10 years, said there was
not enough transparency in reporting any problems with cashflow.
He added: They simply do not reply to ourquestions about whats
going on satisfactorily.
A spokesman for the Landscape Institute, which has just under
6,000 members, said: We will be providing a
detailed response to the EGM request in the near future. The
eligibility criteria [to join the board of trustees] are
set out in our by-laws and were the subject of full consultation
with members.
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