If you’re a landscape professional with significant industry experience then you can join the Landscape Institute as either a Chartered member (CMLI) or a Fellow member (FLI).
This is done by assessing your skills and experience against our Competency Framework as part of your entry standards review.
So, if you’ve been working in industry for several years, or see yourself as an industry leader, then submit your Expression of Interest form today to join our Experienced Route to Chartered Membership (E2C) or Expert Route to Fellowship (E2F).
The assessment costs £409. This includes reviewing the application and submission documents, as well as the oral assessment itself. It should be paid ahead of the oral assessment.
Applicants also need to be members of the LI (either Affiliate or Associate members) and membership must be active ahead of the oral assessment.
Once elected a Chartered member, the standard membership fee applies.
Application deadline: 18 November 2025
Oral assessment: February 2026 (dates TBC)
As the professional body for the landscape sector, it is the Landscape Institute’s role to continually reflect the changing needs of landscape practitioners, helping them remain trusted, relevant and successful, today and in the future.
The LI Competency Framework has been designed to demonstrate and articulate the requisite knowledge and skills of a landscape professional at various levels of proficiency and experience. The framework underpins the various routes to membership which offers a home for landscape professionals across a wide range of fields of practice, from landscape designers to parks managers. It is the standards that enable the sector to be at the forefront to tackle climate change and guardians of the natural and built environment.
Encompassing professional competencies, core landscape competencies, and additional landscape competencies, the Competency Framework is flexible, adaptable and designed to support landscape professionals as they progress in their career.
E2C and E2F applications currently suspended. The LI hopes have both restored in early 2026
