A postgraduate has won a major national landscape award.

Writtle College Landscape Architecture postgraduate Jacqui Jobbins, of Bradwell, won the student dissertation category in this year’s Landscape Institute awards.

She was also runner up in the President’s Award.

Jacqui, who graduated this year with a Masters in Landscape Architecture, said: “It is a great honour and privilege to have won the student dissertation category.

“Even more of an honour was being on Noel Farrer’s shortlist of three for his President’s Award.”

Responding to the environmental and social challenges that face us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and finite resources, Jacqui’s dissertation aimed to develop a new ethical approach to the design process.

She developed a matrix to assess ethical value during the design process, which focussed first on the natural, then the social and then the built environment.

This applied the theory developed by philosopher Warwick Fox and she demonstrated its use through the case study of South Woodham Ferrers and its 20-year development plan.

Jacqui now works for Greenlight Environmental Consultancy.