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A guide to our Built Environment Experts

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Built Environment Experts (BEEs)Design Council Cabe is England’s national champion for design in the built environment. We are committed to demonstrating how good design improves our built environment, stimulates innovation and provides better places for people to live and work in.

Our work includes advising government and providing support to local authorities, communities and the private sector in promoting and delivering good design. Support is provided through expert advice, practical hands-on help and training.

Our model of delivery focuses on having a small core team of dedicated and skilled staff based in London, supported by 400 multi-disciplinary Built Environment Experts (BEEs) that bring together an unprecedented breadth of expertise. National experts and specialists in public health, inclusion, SMART and culture, are joined by experts in planning, built environment and design, creating an interdisciplinary network of skills and experience. Together, we offer knowledge, insight, inspiration and best practice to clients across England.

Their involvement is critical in offering independent advice on design in the built environment, ensuring that we create places and spaces that improve everyone’s quality of life.


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Academia Architecture Community Engagement

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Procurement + Viability

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ConsultancyPublic Health Surveying

Sustainability Transport Planning Urban Design User Centred

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Central Government Construction

Design Develpment Planning

Events& Training

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Landscape Architecture

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Government Marketing Planning Policy

PublicConsultation & Engagement Urban Design

Our areas of expertise include:


Better places and spaces

All our BEEs care passionately about design. Whether it’s the principles of place making or specialisms including procurement, housing, transport, public health, heritage and conservation or inclusion, they are united by a desire to make better places and spaces.

How BEEs work

We believe good design is essential to the creation of successful places, and is fundamental to the planning system. To support this Cabe produces support at all stages of the development process, from visioning and concept development through to the occupancy, management and maintenance of buildings and spaces. We assist a range of clients from community groups; Local Authority Planning Departments; to developers and health care professionals.

BEEs play a vital role in the delivery of this work. This may include one-to-one working with an individual client or small group or as part of a review panel. BEEs may also work directly with Cabe staff to develop best practice advice, help shape our policy position, or participate as an expert in topic-specific focus groups.

BEEs provide inspiration and reflect good practice in giving clients the understanding and confidence to apply the principles of good design, to achieve great outcomes for people and raise standards within the built environment.

Diversity and Inclusion

Cabe promotes diversity, equality and inclusion on an ongoing basis, and ensures that this approach is at the heart of our role as a champion of good design. When appointing BEEs we aim to increase diversity and inclusivity within our network.

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How we select our BEEs

During an intensive selection from a huge pool of enthusiastic individuals, we assessed applications against key competencies, including inclusive and sustainable design, advocacy and analytical skills. We also looked for a geographical spread, a balance between experience at strategic and operational levels, and of large and small scale projects. The BEEs provide independent advice to challenge, encourage and support Design Council Cabe’s clients to make the right design decisions.

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Where they are from


Index

AArthur AchesonRobert AdamLynda AddisonDr Olutayo AdebowaleSorwar AhmedJe AhnPam AlexanderSarah AllanSimon AllfordBob AlliesDavid AltabevGideon AmosPaul ApplebyPaul AppletonGayle AppleyardRuth AscroftMaayan AshkenaziStephen AshworthJanet AskewDr Phil AskewFiona AstinMike Axon

BNicola BaconMargaret BaddeleyKen BaikieKimball BaileySimon BakerJon BaldwinRob BallantyneIan BanksNeil BarkerTim BarkleyAlistair BarrRenato BenedettiRab BennettsAlan BermanJohn BestJoost BeundermanToby BlumeRiccardo BobisseDavid BonnettEddie BoothChris BowdenDr. Jos BoysKeith BradleyAngela BradyPaul BragmanDarren Bray

Joyce BridgesAbigaile BromfieldAndrew BrookesAlison BrooksAdam BrownJessica Bryne-DanielRobin BuckleDr. Lucy BullivantJacqui BunceCatherine BurdMark BurgessSarah BurgessRuth ButlerAnne Byrne

CAndrew CameronJames CameronCharles CampionRachel CaponMattew CarmonaRichard CassBen CastellPhilip CaveLynne CeeneyPhilip ChambersJim ChapmanRichard ChargeHeather CheesbroughDarryl ChenDave ChetwynAndrew ClaibornePeter ClashDerek Clements-CroomeMichál CohenGarry ColliganNicole CollombCharlotte ColverPeter ConnellAnnie CoombsMichael CoombsGerard CouperGed CouserRob CowanRosemary CoyneMichael CrillyDorian CroneRichard Crutchley

DJane DannMeredith DaveyNeil DavidsonKathryn DaviesAndrew DawesSophia De SousaIan DeansNeil DeelyJohn DevlinAnne DiackMarc DixNick DixonPaul DoddDavid Dropkin

EJayne EarnscliffeNick EdwardsTony EdwardsJoanna EleyAlex ElyMike EntwisleJo EvansMeredith EvansSteph EverettJim Eyre

FHelen FarrarNoel FarrerAlice FergusonPaul FinchKathryn FirthKarl FitzgeraldJulie FleckAndy FosterSarah FosterBeatrice FraenkelSusan FrancisDaisy FroudSandra FryerTony FullwoodJulie Futcher

GJason GardnerMagda GayChristopher GaylordBill GethingTim GillJulian GitshamStephen GleaveLouise GoodisonVincent GoodstadtAndy GrahamMarcus GrantSusan GreenJulie GreerIan GreggorSam Gullam

HAndrew HaleyBen Hamilton-BaillieAnnette HardsLiane HartleyRoger HawkinsMike HayesColin HaylockWayne HeadPhilip HeatonJon HerbertDan HillStephen HillDavid HillsLuke HillsonEdward HobsonTom HolbrookEric HoldingAnthony HollingsworthGillian HornGlenn HowellsSimon HudspithKay HughesMichael HurlowDonald Hyslop


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IPhilip Insall

JJohn JenkinsAnnalise JohnsLesley JohnsonMark JohnsonDan JonesPhil JonesMaja Jorgensen

KKristian KaminskiHanif KaraPaul KarakusevicRoland KarthausTim KellettMike KellyJonathan KendallLiz KesslerMaria KheirkhahMike KielyDoug KingGraham KingDieter KleinerJane KnightStefan KruczkowskiCora Kwiatkowski

LMatt LallyPaul LavelleLone Le VayJustine LeachMarcus LeeThomas LefevreSophie LeonJohn LetherlandCaroline LewisHolly LewisEkaterina LichtensteinAlex LifschutzNicky LinihanTom ListerAndrew LlowarchMatthew Lloyd

Jane Lock-SmithHana LoftusIan LomasRoger LomasPhil LomaxTim LongTom LonsdaleEmma LuddingtonJohn LyallKelda Lyons

MPaul MaccabeeGerard MacCreanorEuan MacDonaldKelvin MacDonaldKathy MacEwenAlex MacLarenRoger MadelinAli MangeraFred MansonEdward MarchandGraham MarshallSteve MaslinSelina MasonPeter MaxwellGail MayhewDeclan McCaffertyJo McCaffertyMartin McConaghyJane McElroySue McGlynnNigel McGurkKieran McMahonFin McNabStephen MelvilleConor MoloneyMay MoltenoPaul MonaghanClaire MookerjeeJulie MorganSue MorganJanice MorphetPaul Murphy

NDeborah NaganPeter NealPauline NeeJustin NichollsRobin Nicholson

Geoff NobleVanessa Norwood

OPeter ObornStephen O’MalleyDavid OrrValerie Owen

PJason PalmerDominic PapaAndrew ParsonsDr. Tim PascoePankaj PatelMark PearsonAndy PenningtonIan PhillipsLouisa PhilpottSteven PidwillSylvie PierceHelen PineoKarl PitmanJohn PlumridgeNeil PorterRichard PowellSunand PrasadDr. Stephen PretloveJohn PrevcDarren PriceMiles PriceBrenda PuechJohn Pugh-Smith

RJulia RatcliffeRichard ReesAmanda ReynoldsGeoff RichKay RichardsonAntony RifkinAndy RobertsDavid RobertsGraham RobertsAnna RoseJon Rowland

SAlireza SagharchiFlora SamuelClare San MartinRachel SandbrookPeter SandoverDr. Gina SandsChristie SarriLucy SaundersBiljana SavicAlexia SawyerWade ScaramucciMartha SchwartzIrene SeijoYasmin ShariffJustine SharmanNick SharmanIan SharrattBarry ShawJon SheaffWendy ShillamAndy ShipleyKen ShuttleworthJane SimpsonChristina SinclairPhilip SingletonDr. Mark SkellyLindsay SmalesRachel SmalleyDarryl SmithNeil SmithDr. Bridget SnaithRos SouthernLes SparksAlexandra SteedMichael StiffMartin StockleyJane StonehamRichard StonesTim StonorDr. David StrongMark StrongPeter StuddertSimon SturgisAndrew Swain-SmithPaul SwannMark Swenarton


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TAmanda TaylorAndrew TaylorEdward TaylorNick Taylor BuckLudwig TewksburyAnthony Thistleton-SmithJames ThomasSophie ThomasVaughan ThompsonJohn ThorpPenelope TollittMatthew TulleyGlyn TullyChris Twinn

UDavid UbakaPeter UllathorneDr. Deb Upadhyaya

VJo Van HeyningenPaula Vandergert Atam VerdiAndrew von Bradsky

WCharles WagnerNigel WakefieldDanna WalkerDr. Helen WalkerLorna WalkerCindy WaltersVincent WangJonathan WardJames WarneElanor WarwickPaul WatsonMary WebsterCamila WeenSarah WeirMatthew WellsDr. Michael WellsJane WernickMichael WestleyAntony WhiteheadSarah WigglesworthLindsey WilkinsonMarcus WillcocksMartin WilleyFinn WilliamsKeith WilliamsNeil WilliamsonJonathan WilsonGeoff WrightNigel WrightClare WrightTony WyattLouise Wyman

ZSuzie Zuber


Arthur Acheson

Arthur is an architect and civic planner with ten years teaching experience in schools of architecture in Australia, Canada and the United

Kingdom. For over twenty five years, Arthur was a partner in a medium sized architectural practice with offices in Belfast and Kendal, Cumbria.

He is currently a sole practitioner with a special interest in civic stewardship as an early improver and sustainer of places and an informer of better procurement, briefing and strategic design in the built environment. Arthur has considerable experience in the design and construction of educational buildings at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, including integrated schools in Northern Ireland. Arthur acquired development and urban regeneration experience with the commissioning and design of riverside and heritage housing projects and loft style apartments in former linen mills in Belfast and Carrickfergus.

He chairs the Northern Ireland government’s Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment and its cross-sector Strategic Design Group. Arthur was the founder chair of Belfast Civic Trust and is a director of several local community interest companies. He is Northern Ireland regional convener for the Academy of Urbanism and a governor in a Belfast inner city primary schoo

Robert Adam

Robert is an architect with 40 years in practice and a director of ADAM Architecture, the largest UK firm specialising in

traditional design. Projects include a new, mixed-use classical building in Piccadilly, London, and a new village development in Norton St Phillip, Wiltshire.

He is a participating member of the Art Workers’ Guild, the Academy of Urbanism, the Prince’s Foundation and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism. He has been a councillor of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), a Member of the RIBA Planning & Urban Design Group, a Trustee of the RIBA Trust, and Honorary Secretary of RIBA.Robert writes on theory and practice. His books include Classical Architecture: a complete handbook and The Globalisation of Modern Architecture. He lectures internationally and is visiting professor of Urban Design at the University of Strathclyde.

Robert has initiated and published research on: Kerb Appeal (1998); on Privacy and Density (2003); A study of the energy performance of two buildings with lightweight and heavyweight facades (2007); Four Facades, on public preference in commercial and public architecture (2009); Identifying Trends in Masterplanning (2014); and social trends in the 18 to 34 age cohort, Tomorrow’s Home (2014).

Lynda Addison

Lynda is a planner and transport planner who has worked for /within the public sector for over 40 years. She is Director of Malcolm Baker

Consulting. Lynda was founder Director of Addison and Associates, an award winning consultancy.

Previously Director of Planning and Transport in Hounslow, she works at national and local level supporting improvements in planning and transport services including leading on planning performance and resources, best practice research and guidance in travel planning, local plan making and what makes an “ideal planning authority”. Lynda has led on local plans and regeneration in several London Boroughs. As an English Heritage Commissioner she chairs the London Advisory Committee; Adviser to The Campaign for Better Transport; a Visiting Professor in Planning at the University of Westminster; Chair of the Sustainable Transport Panel of Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport; a member of the Planning Committee of London Legacy Docklands Corporation; a former Trustee of Living Streets and Town and Country Planning Associatio; a Director of Garden City Developments and an Academician.

She received her Order of the British Empire for services to planning in 2006 and was awarded the Royal Town Planning Iinstitute/Transport Planning Network (RTPI/TPS) award in 2010.


Dr. Olutayo Adebowale

Olutayo, Director of Cirkadia Olutayo is an Environmental Scientist with over 30 years experience. She provides independent

environmental and sustainability advice to a wide range of clients. Olutayo’s portfolio is extensive, including projects such as: Chair of the Forestry Commission’s initial Public Forest Estate Study; and Project manager of numerous Environmental Impact Assessments, including the Kingsway Business Park Development in Rochdale.

Her current roles include: Board Member of Environment Agency (EA) North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) as EA representative for Sustainability; Board Member of Manchester and Pennine Waterway Partnership (Canal and River Trust); and a Committee member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) North Western and North Wales Branch. Previously she was a GB Forestry Commissioner; and a Non-Executive Director of the Countryside Agency.

Sorwar Ahmed

Sorwar is a planning and regeneration professional with extensive experience in socio-economic regeneration, community planning,

healthy urban planning, neighbourhood management, public consultation and stakeholder engagement. He has worked across central and local government, the private sector and the voluntary and community sectors. He specialises in engaging stakeholders and communities in shaping policy, places and public services. This includes delivering major regeneration programmes in Greenwich, Lewisham and Lambeth; leading community regeneration programmes for a large housing association; delivering neighbourhood management for a Local Strategic Partnership; advising the public health and local government sectors on delivering healthier places; developing successful partnerships; and project management of multi-disciplinary masterplans and regeneration studies. As a trained and skilful facilitator, he has a successful track record in designing and delivering consultation exercises, design workshops, public participation, and action learning for diverse audiences.

A Chartered Town Planner, Sorwar was Chairman of the Royal Town Planning Institute London Branch in 2000, and is involved in voluntary planning aid and development work.

Je Ahn

Je is co-founder of Studio Weave and is a Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Architect. He is especially interested in the role

of successful collaboration between wider stakeholders as well as with the design team, through understanding and leading an assembly of various interests to positive outcomes. Je is a member of the Southwark Design Review Panel, an advisory panel reviewing development proposals throughout the borough.

He has taught at architectural summer workshop Studio in the Woods and is a visiting critic at a variety of architecture schools including KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Recent projects Je has led on include 250+ units of social housing development in West London; a new school building for a Special Needs Secondary School in Ealing; extensive refurbishment of a 1970s house in Hackney; a computer-numerically-control fibre cement pavilion dedicated to crafts people; and a number of unusual installations including converting a barbershop bus into a mobile host for craft workshops, and a collaboration with contemporary dancers to create a moving, percussive theatre set and research into new typologies of ‘Commons’ through Co-housing developments.


Pam Alexander

Pam is an economic geographer who has held senior executive and non-executive roles delivering physical and economic

regeneration and housing, innovation, growth and economic development in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

She is currently Chair of the Covent Garden Market Authority, Non-Executive Director of Crest Nicholson Plc, of Crossrail Ltd, and of the Future Cities Catapult. A trustee of the Design Council, where she is chair of Design Council Cabe, and of Brighton Dome and Festival, she is also a member of the London Mayor’s Design Advisory Group, the London Open Workplaces Group, and New London Architecture’s Sounding Board.

A senior civil servant in the Department of the Environment until 1995, Pam then ran the Housing Corporation’s £2billion housing programme before becoming Chief Executive of English Heritage and then of the South East England Development Agency, where she led large physical redevelopment and economic regeneration projects across the south east, working with businesses and local authorities to support sustainable economic growth.

Pam was previously Chair of Peabody and a board member of The Housing Finance Corporation and was made OBE in 2012 for her services to sustainable regeneration in the South East. Pam is a Fellow of the Academy of Urbanism, the Royal Geographical Society and the RSA.

Sarah Allan

Sarah is an architect, urban designer and project manager with nearly 20 years experience supporting public and private sector clients

delivering high quality residential projects, from large-scale masterplans to individual homes. Experienced at setting up projects and programmes, procuring design expertise, running design competitions, preparing design guidance and principles for large-scale masterplans and engaging communities in complex projects.

Sarah is a director of Field Work Enterprise, a Community Interest Company providing design management and advisory support to public sector clients, helping them to achieve design leadership and embed quality management processes in their organisations. Field Work helped a local authority to run a two-stage design-led competition that met European Union procurement rules, selecting a developer team to build 100 homes and provide employment uses on a former brownfield site. We produced guidance to help local authorities working on building projects to consider place and design quality alongside management of local government services.

Sarah also works for an independent developer, managing the design and construction of residential projects on gap sites. She is a member of Hackney Council’s design review panel and a housing advisor for the Community Land Trust Funding Committee.

Simon Allford

Simon co founded Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects in 1989. From its base in London’s Clerkenwell the practice works in

England, Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East, engaging both public and private clients in the exploration of a particular architecture’s potential to offer delight as well as utility.

The work of the practice has been extensively exhibited and published; and individual/assembled offices, housing, health, arts and educational buildings have received national/international awards. Simon has advised many organisations including the Architectural Association - he was on the Council, and Honorary Treasurer and Vice President; The Royal Institute of British Architects, where he was VP for Education and CABE, where he chaired Design Review panels. For eighteen months he was the weekly columnist in The Architects’ Journal.

Now, aside from pursuing the design and execution of architectural proposals, Simon focuses on short term activities with definite timelines. He is visiting professor at the Bartlett, University College London and Harvard; is a frequent lecturer, guest critic and external examiner at many schools at home and abroad; a judge/advisor on national and international urban and architectural design competitions; and contributes to debates, lectures and publications that discuss architecture and the work of his practice.


Bob Allies

Bob and Graham co founded the practice Allies and Morrison in 1984. Together they continue to retain responsibility for its design direction.

Bob trained at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded the Rome Scholarship in Architecture. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and has held visiting professorships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Bath and the University of Maryland. Bob has been a member of the faculty of the British School at Rome; has served on the Council of the Architectural Association and was a member of the Advisory Board for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment/Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (CABE/DETR) document ‘By Design’.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards Group and chairman of the annual Brick Awards.

David Altabev

David is a chartered engineer with the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He works in Nesta’s Innovation Lab leading on City Initiatives for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CITIE), a framework to help cities develop policy to support innovation and entrepreneurship. Previously David managed Innovate UK’s £35m Future Cities Demonstrator programme that saw Glasgow, Bristol, Peterborough and London explore the challenges and opportunities around shaping the urban environment, testing new solutions for integrating city systems.

He was a Cognicity Challenge start-up mentor - a Canary Wharf Group initiative to accelerate development of smart city technologies, and led the development of design challenges for the European Commission.

Gideon Amos

Gideon is a chartered architect, planner and qualified urban designer who specialises in sustainable development, with

over 25 years’ experience. One of the 8 core UK Infrastructure Planning Commissioners he helped set up and operated the national infrastructure regime, taking a keen interest in Development Consent Orders (DCOs) and design quality. Gideon led examinations, reports and recommendations on the largest offshore wind farms in the world and the Swansea Tidal Lagoon. He also led on the first DCO to be made, as promoted by Network Rail. In his time at the Planning Inspectorate he also examined Local Plans and decided on planning appeals. Gideon is National Planning Advisor at Capita GL Hearn and works with private and public sector clients on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. He is a Board member at Swan Housing. For ten years Gideon was Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association contributing to sustainable communities and national infrastructure policy. The lead author of Standards for Eco-towns (2009), he initiated research to reinvent the Garden City concept for the 21st century. He is now an Association Vice President and was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to sustainable development in 2009.


Paul Appleby

Paul advises design and masterplanning teams on the integrated sustainable design of buildings and communities. He has

worked in the construction industry as a consultant, lecturer and researcher for 47 years, including 25 years’ consultancy experience running practices specialising in building health and sustainability, working with some of the world’s leading architects and developers on high profile and award winning projects, such as Battersea Power Station; Scottish National Heritage and the Pinnacle tower.

As well as writing 70 publications, including key guidance published by the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE) and others, his book: Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings has appeared in Cambridge University’s ‘Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010’. His follow up: Sustainable Retrofit & Facilities Management was published in January 2013. Paul is on the HS2 Independent Design Panel and South East Design Panel.

Paul is actively involved with the UK Green Building Council, participating in a number of task groups including developing retrofit incentives and, with the World Green Building Council, explores the relationships between productivity, health and wellbeing, and sustainability in the office environment.

Paul Appleton

Paul is a partner of Allies and Morrison. Educated at Bristol and Edinburgh Universities he joined Bob and Graham in 1984, the year the

practice was founded. Since then, he has led projects across all of the sectors of the practice’s work including the public realm - The Mound Edinburgh 1984-7, Liverpool Pierhead 1995, Tate Britain 2001; cultural projects -Contemporary Applied Arts 1996, The Guardian Newsroom 2002, Welney Wildfowl and Wetland Trust 2006, Royal Festival Hall 2007, Royal Observatory Greenwich 2007, Royal Albert Museum Exeter 2012, The Sam Wannamaker Playhouse 2014; education - Goldsmiths College 1997, Chelsea College 2005, Kings College Neuroscience Institute 2015; and a series of mixed use projects in historic town centres: Winchester, Salisbury, Hereford.

Paul has lectured regularly on the work of the practice. He has been a Cabe Design Review panel member since 2009 and sits on Historic England’s London Advisory Committee.

Gayle Appleyard

Gayle is co-founding director of GAGARIN Studio, a small award-winning architecture practice in West Yorkshire, and until recently Senior

Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research and practice explores the creative & sustainable re-use of existing buildings and Interior Architecture. She is a strong advocate of regional design ambition, particularly in towns and rural communities, recognising the opportunities to respond to context, invest in our regional economies and engage local communities.

Gayle has regularly co-ordinated live projects within both academic and professional studio practice; engaging students, clients and users to strengthen collaborative outcomes. Clients include Castleford Heritage Trust; Leeds City Varieties; Calderdale Council; Halifax Piece Hall; Hepworth Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery; IOU Theatre Ltd; Halifax Industrial Museum and Square Chapel Centre for the Arts. Although moving her focus back to practice recently, she continues her role as external examiner, academic advisor and tutor for a number of University Schools of Architecture. Gayle is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has worked for award winning, international architecture and interior design practices including Eva Jiricna Architects and HMKM Design Consultant.


Ruth Ascroft

Ruth graduated from Brunel University in 1995 with a BSc Occupational Therapy and was awarded the University Prize in

acknowledgement of the high standard of her final year research project . She began her career as an occupational therapist working in a dynamic social services team in the London Borough of Hackney, before moving to Westminster City Council to work with people affected by HIV. Ruth has worked in Lancashire and South Yorkshire, before recently moving to Suffolk.

Her work has been predominantly in the public sector, working for local authorities to recommend home adaptations for children, adults and elders with physical disabilities and mental health problems. A member of a UK-wide network of occupational therapists with a special interest in housing, she has been a voluntary panel member for Designability and Remap for several years.

An advocate of cross-sector collaboration, with a particular interest in the links between health, housing and the environment, Ruth’s current role focuses on assessing the needs of children with a range of conditions from autism to rare genetic disorders, working within the constraints of the public purse to design home adaptations from conception to completion.

Maayan Ashkenazi

Maayan has worked at the intersection of anthropology, architecture and urban design for over six years. Having established the role of

anthropologist urban designer at one of the UK’s foremost studios, she went on to set up an independent consultancy for local planning organisations, and is engaged in academic research into urbanisation and health.

Maayan works at a number of scales, including individual buildings, public spaces and masterplans. She has been involved with a number of high profile projects in central London, developing interdisciplinary strategies to promote vibrancy, wellbeing and socio-economic sustainability, by applying spatial and social analysis within the design process. She is an advocate for locally led change and has supported local planning organisations in their consultation, design and research strategies - developing both digital and physical modes of engagement to increase outreach and participation.

Maayan has worked both for high profile clients, and in more challenging environments, on self-initiated change for security and health in Nairobi’s slums. She trained at the University of Cambridge, University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her current research examines urban wellbeing as it relates to the integration of diverse user groups in European cities.

Stephen Ashworth

Stephen is a planning lawyer and development advocate with 30 years of experience. He has worked on projects for the public

and private sector - for the local authority on the Kings Cross development; for Places for People on their 10,000 home proposals at Gilston Park Estate, and for Grosvenor on Liverpool One.

Stephen is a Board member of the Centre for Cities; chairs the Advisory Board for British Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), and has been an expert on Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) panels on the Community Infrastructure Levy and planning reform.


Janet Askew

Janet is a chartered town planner. During her forty year career in planning, she has worked in the public and private sectors, and in academia at

the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she was the head of the School of Planning and Architecture for many years.

Her main area of research is in the detailed regulation of place, and she regularly lectures across the world on this subject, including in Taiwan where she holds a professorship at the National Taipei University of Technology. Janet has advised the UK, Welsh and Dutch governments on planning regulation and implementation of projects, and has recently been appointed to become a founding member of the International Garden Cities Institute.

She is a passionate enthusiast for planning, good design, for place making and sustainability and believes that the best way to achieve this is through multi-disciplinary working across professions. Janet is the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2015, and will be immediate past president in 2016.

Dr. Phil Askew

Phil is a landscape architect, urban designer and horticulturalist with over 30 years’ experience. He was as project lead at the

Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for the London 2012 Olympic Park and then with the London Legacy Development Corporation, leading the transformation of the Games park into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - the largest new urban park in the UK for over a century.

Phil is currently leading on all aspects of landscape and public realm in relation to legacy housing and development projects. A Landscape Institute judge,he regularly gives talks on the Olympic Park, and also sits on the professional review group for Writtle Colleges landscape architecture courses.

Fiona Astin

Fiona has worked as an affordable housing development professional for over 20 years. She has worked with many communities to

successfully deliver both Community Land Trust and Co-housing projects, including the Roman Barn scheme at Worth Matravers and The Threshold Centre in Gillingham. Fiona was also instrumental in gaining lottery funding for a public art project as part of an award-winning public library and housing scheme in Bournemouth.

As well as new build schemes, she has also been involved in regeneration projects in central London, including Lansdowne Green in Stockwell and Chater House in Bethnal Green. She has worked at director level in a corporate environment and played key roles in business transformation initiatives. Fiona has a keen interest in taking a holistic approach to sustainability issues in a housing and community setting.


Mike Axon

Mike is a founding Director of Vectos with more than 25 years’ experience in the development industry. His expertise includes transport

masterplanning, advising on transport policy and directing innovative and design-led transport approaches to development schemes. Mike graduated in 1988, formed Savell Bird & Axon in 1994, subsequently sold it to WYG - Global Consultancy in 2007 and formed Vectos in 2011. Vectos is a transport planning and infrastructure design consultancy specialising in maximising the value of land/assets in the property development industry.

Mike leads complex, mixed-use scheme projects placing design at the heart of transport solutions. His work includes major strategic developments, expert witness appearances on projects across the UK, and Select Committee and Upper Tribunal appearances. His work spans the land use spectrum, including the residential, retail, commercial, leisure and sustainable energy sectors. He is involved in strategic planning for European research and demonstration transport projects.

Mike is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation. He is a Member of the British Council of Shopping Centres and the Milton Keynes Business Leaders Partnership. He is a Director and owner of indoor rock climbing centres in Milton Keynes and Snowdonia.

Nicola Bacon

Nicola is a Founding Director of Social Life, set up in 2012 by the Young Foundation as a centre of research and innovation about the social life of

communities. Nicola has worked with the public, private and third sectors to explore the relationship between people and places, understanding how day-to-day experience is shaped by the built environment. Nicola has advised governments and agencies in the UK and internationally on different ways that people can be put at the centre of placemaking. Her work ranges from big data projects to qualitative research and practical engagement and empowerment projects.

Nicola was the Young Foundation’s Director of Local Projects from 2007 to 2012, setting up major programmes on local social innovation, wellbeing and resilience and neighbourhoods. Before joining the Young Foundation, she worked at the Home Office and was Director of Safe in the City, an award winning action research programme set up to pilot new ways of preventing youth homelessness, and was Director of Policy at Shelter. Nicola started her career working in locally based third sector organisations in Newcastle and London. She is a Fellow of the Young Foundation and a mentor for Bethnal Green Ventures.

Margaret Baddeley

Margaret is a planning director with Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (NLP), a planning, economics and urban design consultancy. A town

planner and planning and development surveyor, with over 20 years’ experience, working in private practice advising both public and private sector clients. She has worked on a wide variety of development projects, with proposals, taken through all steps from inception to implementation.

She leads a team responsible for solving complex project-related legal and policy problems, most recently advising on Kings Cross Central and a series of residential projects nationwide. Her team reports and comments on emerging planning-related legislation and Government policy for clients and in-house, advising on implications for their interests and submitting responses to consultations.

Margaret is vice-chair of the British Property Federation’s (BPF) Planning Committee and regularly participates in discussions regarding emerging law and policy with Department for Communities and Local Government’s (DCLG) and Business Innovation and Science (BIS). She independently reviewed development management sections of the draft Planning Practice Guidance and is currently assisting DCLG with Housing Bill proposals (for the brownfield register and ‘permission in principle’). Margaret is an architectural tour guide for Hamburg-based architects and Open-City; she regularly volunteers on built environment educational programmes.


Ken Baikie

Ken has been utilising his skills as a planner for over 25 years in a variety of sectors and projects in London. He joined the Peabody Trust in

2014, to client a strategic master planning exercise for Peabody in conjunction with two local authorities: the Greater London Authority and Transport for London. Ken is now working with the Interim Executive Director Thamesmead at Peabody to agree a whole organisation step change in investment and service delivery across Thamesmead.

Prior to Peabody, Ken worked in a variety of senior roles in local government on a range of regeneration projects in East London. He also spent 3 years with the Homes and Communities Agency London Team culminating in leading on housing and regeneration investment across South London.

Kimball Bailey

Kimball is a published author, an experienced and practical business director and manager with significant expertise in

governance, procurement, benefit realisation and the management of change in a strategic commercial context. For the last 27 years he has worked for international consultancies, both independent players and former ‘big four’ firms - with nine years at Ernst & Young. Kimball has a law degree from Cambridge University.

He helps organisations to realise benefit from their investment in business change and has most recently applied this on a series of projects to procure architects, a strategic design team and development advisers for NHS Trusts. He has worked with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Design Council Cabe. Kimball has worked across a range of sectors, including healthcare, central and local government, education, financial services, retail and distribution and the voluntary sector.

Simon Baker

Simon graduated from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture in 1995. He has worked in architectural practices with Piers

Gough, Terry Farrell & currently manages the architecture studio of Chetwoods Architects in Leeds.

He is involved in a number of built environment activities outside of his role as a director of a national practice. Chair of the Architecture Centre for the Leeds City region; a design review panellist at a local level for Barnsley and regionally level for Yorkshire and Humber; honorary treasurer of the regional Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) council; regular contributor to the Leeds School of Architecture; and a CABE enabler. With extensive architectural and urban design experience he delivers projects of all scales and in numerous sectors including: retail, residential, commercial, leisure and culture.

Simon is a designer and creative leader, passionate about producing meaningful work by delivering better places to live/work through stimulating of debate and producing appropriate built forms. He believes projects should reflect their location, respond to history and originate from a narrative specific to the client, use of the building, the user, and the wider community. He is willing to listen to others and promotes a culture of collaboration.


Jon Baldwin

Jon a committed and widely experienced urban planning, economic development and regeneration professional. He has

completed a substantial body of work in placemaking, development management, masterplanning and at all stages of the project cycle, successfully delivering innovative projects and significant programmes.

Jon has worked for County, District and Unitary local authorities; Residential Development Agencies (RDAs) and Uniform Rail Costing Systems; a private consultancy and freelance consultant. He has specialised in urban planning and regeneration activity, including bidding for/delivering various national and European funding regimes. He is a former Director and trustee of Urban Vision North Staffordshire. Strengths include the ability to develop and retain a strategic programme overview whilst successfully ensuring detailed of individual project delivery. Adept at working with inter-disciplinary professional colleagues; partners; stakeholders and clients at all levels in all types of organisations, either as part of an in-house team or an external freelance consultant.

Jon has worked extensively with elected politicians, trusts, management boards and community groups. A believer in the dynamic future of cities and the ability of place shapers to improve city regions through good urban design.

Rob Ballantyne

Rob is an independent consultant in planning and health. A full member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), he

also has a considerable background in health, having been of years an Executive Director of a large Health Authority for several years; responsible at various times for planning, commissioning and primary care. Since 2002 Rob has used his background in planning, urban design and health to work with health bodies, local authorities and developers on ‘healthy urban planning’ and ‘healthy urban design’.

This includes developing and reviewing guides and policies, carrying out Health Impact Assessment and advising on urban design. Author of: ‘Building In Health – a checklist and guide’, and one of the authors of the Royal Town Planning Institute guide: ‘Delivering Healthy Communities’. He recently co-authored a second edition of an ‘Active Planning Toolkit’, commended in RTPI Planning Awards.

He was personally invited to give evidence to the Parliamentary Health Select Committee on the role of the built environment in health inequalities, and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Programme Development Group on Spatial Planning for Health.

Ian Banks

Ian is both a chartered architect and a public art consultant. He is the director of Atoll Ltd, his micro architecture and art collaborative

of just one, that likes to partner with a growing network of creative artists, architects, landscape architects, engineers, designers and curators.

He is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and acts voluntarily for the Arts on the Waterways national advisory panel of the Canal and River Trust. His commercial and domestic architectural commissions are carried out separately and profits from this work are reinvested to subsidise further cultural, community and non-profit interests that the studio is engaged in. As such, work is split to varying degrees between four main working interests of architecture (primarily housing & leisure); public art (collaborations and consultancy); afilliations (associations, joint ventures and voluntary work); and writing (articles, journalism and other editorial).


Neil Barker

Architect, client design advisor and associate of the Association for Project Safety, with 40 years experience, Neil has expertise in

most aspects of architectural practice. Now a Director- owner of emBarkArchitecture Chartered Practice.

Focusing on good client and stakeholder communication and liaison, helps Neil develop and manage effective teams and partnerships. He has wide experience on projects from feasibility to completion and operation. Recent extensive work with various large care provider clients developed a programme of assessment, new build projects, extension and renovation of building stock, to provide and maintain modern, attractive premises, benefitting all users and occupants. Neil understands the requirements of care registration bodies and their importance in the design process.

He is Client Representative for many projects. His work as an Assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects Continuing Professional Development Providers’ Network keeps him up to date with technical, legal and design issues. Neil represents North East Chamber of Commerce on Newcastle Age Friendly City, and as Director on the Boards of International Newcastle and Newcastle Business Improvement District. Fifteen years as a Non-executive Director in the National Health Service provided insight into and understanding of complex organisations, public sector procurement and major capital projects.

Tim Barkley

Tim has been a Chartered Town Planner since 1984. He spent most of his career in development management rising to

manage environmental health, building control, land charges and development control services. Recently he led on the Council’s project to revitalize three town centres which included three town centre master plans. The project involved working with a private sector development partner, master planners and lead architects for each town.

Tim was instrumental in setting up a local design panel with support from the south east region of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Other roles have included strategic lead on emergency planning; Chairman of the Mid Sussex Emergency Planning Liaison Group; Chairman of the Mid Sussex Safety Committee and lead officer for strategic accessibility issues across the district. Whilst managing the Development Control Service he introduced charging for planning advice at Mid-Sussex, area based planning committees and public speaking at planning committees.

Tim was a member of the council’s senior management team for eight years until retiring from the Council. He has now taken on the role of Chairman of the Sussex Community Rail Partnership and is currently supporting a Town Council in preparing a Neighbourhood Plan.

Alistair Barr

Alistair is an architect with thirty five years’ experience. He founded Barr Gazetas in 1993 and directs the design strategy there. He has steered

a path to seek challenging projects on interesting sites. He believes that context and place generate a unique design approach to each individual project. His project at Air Street is the only Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) Outstanding achieved by a listed building and is in the top 1% of sustainable buildings in the UK.

The Greenwich Market scheme is providing active shop fronts, residential units and regenerating a well-loved market with a combination of restoration and modern structures. Alistair has other projects in Greenwich Peninsula, Regent Street, Green Park, Camden Market and Christchurch, Dorset. He has lectured widely on architecture and urban design at universities and conferences.

He is a judge for the Civic Trust, Academy of Urbanism, and FX Design Awards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. Alistair was born and bred in Milton Keynes and credits growing up in this dynamic architectural experiment as his first architectural education. Formal education was at Nottingham and Bristol Universities.


Renato Benedetti

Renato formed McDowell and Benedetti with Jonathan McDowell in 1996. Their award-winning practice has a high

profile reputation with unusually divest projects, at all scales in varied sectors including: urban design, public and cultural buildings, bridges, education, healthcare, offices, housing, shops, restaurants and furniture. Born and educated in Canada, Renato was a stonemason/bricklayer before studying Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. He began his career working for practices in Canada and Italy, and worked for BDP and YRM UK Ltd in London.

Professional affiliations include: ARB - Architects Registration Board RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Chartered Practice Registration FRSA - Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Professional appointments include: Design Council Cabe – Built Environment Expert (BEE) 2012; ongoing Lewisham Design Review Panel 2013; Wandsworth Design Review Panel: founding member/chair 2011; Southwark Design Review Panel: founding member/chair 2006; RIBA Competitions judge 2003; RIBA Client Design Advisor (1995 – 2011). Visiting professor at Roma Tre University, Italy 2009; London Architecture Festival: founding committee member 2003 – 2012. Architecture Club: committee member 1997; Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Art for Architecture Award Panel (1998 - 2004). Who’s Who entry 2000.

Rab Bennetts

Architect Rab co-founded Bennetts Associates in 1987 with his partner Denise, and provides overall design direction. In common

with the other Directors and Associate Directors, he takes a personal, hands-on approach and is keen to create a collaborative spirit throughout the practice’s activities. Notable projects by the firm include the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon; Hampstead Theatre; major hotels in London and Amsterdam for Mint Hotels; The Informatics Faculty at Edinburgh University; Brighton’s Jubilee Library and the New Street Square office complex in the City of London.

He plays an active part in many aspects of the design and construction industry, including research projects, professional committees and education. Rab was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to architecture in 2003. He is a Board member of the UK Green Building Council, Trustee of the Design Council and a director of Sadlers Wells Theatre.

Alan Berman

Alan founded architectural practice Berman Guedes Stretton in 1978, after studying at Cambridge and the Bartlett Schools of

Architecture. A hands on designer he remains closely involved with new and Listed Buildings, using his extensive knowledge of architectural history, particularly 20th Century buildings. Alan now acts as consultant to Berman Guedes Stretton and does advisory work in his own right as Studio Berman.

At Pembroke College Oxford Alan lead the team’s award winning design of five buildings which created two new quads on a restricted historic site, providing 120 student rooms, auditorium, seminar rooms, and café, with a bridge over-sailing the ancient City and College wall. Wolfson College is a listed 1960’s building where Alan and the practice have designed three significant additions: two blocks of student accommodation, an auditorium and study centre. Both projects are highly valued by the colleges who have invited Alan to retain an ongoing relationship. An Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College Oxford, he advises the Building Committee. Alan has written a number of books, contributes to architectural journals, and is visiting Lecturer at Liverpool University’s School of Architecture.


John Best

John has spent 25 years in London government, 10 years each in the London Boroughs of Newham & Haringey, including 5 years as Haringey`s

borough planning officer.

The next 12 years were spent in Milton Keynes: flagship of the New Towns, initially as Director of Environment: planning, development, highways, waste, landscape, community safety, parishes, Direct Labour Organisation (DLO), etc., later as CEO: overall health of the place, its economy, community & trajectory 2003-2008. In 2008 John left to develop his current mixed-sector portfolio, both paid and pro bono. This has included international activity in China, United Arab Emirates (UAE), former Yugoslavia and India; UK work in public and private sectors, on placemaking, computer modelling and mentoring; voluntary sector work in waterways, sports, arts, music and film. Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, and interested in working with Design Council Cabe.

Joost Beunderman

Joost is a Director of the London based architecture, design and strategy practice 00, which he joined in 2008 to lead on a wide range of urban

design and regeneration projects; focusing on economic development, community co-production, and public realm design and management.

He has particular experience in translating high level aspirations for outcomes into specific design, delivery and management strategies. Joost was the main author of the ‘Compendium for the Civic Economy’, an overview of local innovations in economic regeneration, published with Nesta and Design Council in 2011. He has collaborated with several local authorities: the Greater London Authority, Housing Associations and private developers. Joost is also Director of Impact Hub Islington and Impact Hub Brixton: two workspaces for start-up businesses.

From 2005 to 2008, Joost was a researcher at the think tank Demos. He co-authored a wide range of publications on urban governance and the public realm (e.g. on children and play in public space). From 2004 to 2012 he worked on range of urban regeneration projects with the Amsterdam based practice Urhahn Urban Design. Joost trained as a geographer and urban designer at Utrecht University, University of California, Berkeley and London School of Economics Cities Programme.

Toby Blume

Toby is an experienced social innovator, community participation practitioner and strategist. He has over 20 years’

experience of working in the not-for-profit sector, particularly supporting excluded communities to achieve positive social change. His work has included influencing public policy, community engagement and self-help, grant-making and developing innovative ways for marginalised communities to have influence over decisions that affect them. He ran two national charities – Groundswell UK and Urban Forum - for over 15 years, before leaving to set up the Archer Academy: a new free school in north London.

He now runs Social Engine, an agency helping public and not-for-profit organisations improve their impact by working differently. Toby’s recent work has included developing a blueprint for building community on the Olympic Park for the London Legacy Development Corporation; and using behavioural insights, and running randomised controlled trials for local authorities to improve public service outcomes. Toby is a trustee of the Involve Foundation and the Travellers Aid Trust, Chair of Barnet Giving, Chair of Finance of the Archer Academy and an Analytical Associate for the Department for Education.


Riccardo Bobisse

Riccardo is an urbanist with a multidisciplinary background and over 12 years’ of experience. He has worked on

masterplanning, urban and public realm design projects, with a specific focus on mixed urban schemes and town centre revitalisation strategies in the UK and Europe. Riccardo applies a rigorously contextual approach to urban design, which explores the role of culture and community participation in placemaking.

Riccardo holds multiple academic degrees from Westminster University, University College London’s Bartlett and Venice University and has built his professional experience in both the public and private sector. He has worked for small and large organizations in Italy, Ireland and the UK. Riccardo is a Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design and a former member of the Urban Design Group executive committee.

He has published a number of articles and papers as well as given several talks on urban regeneration. Currently, Riccardo holds a senior position at PLP Architecture where he is working on the development of the Old Oak Park masterplan. The project is a complex brownfield regeneration scheme in West London and is earmarked to provide thousands of much needed new homes and jobs for the capital.

David Bonnett

David is an architect with a background in both local authority and private practice. In 1994 he completed a research degree (PhD) at Oxford

Brookes on designing for people with disabilities.

This, as well as David’s personal experience of disability, has made him a leading figure on the subject. David Bonnett Architects was established in 1994 in response to his particular skills as both Architect and Access Consultant. Following expansion, the practice was reformed in 2011 as David Bonnett Associates (DBA). DBA is now one of the leading Access Consultancies in the UK, working on significant projects, with many of the leading architectural practices both at home and abroad. DBA application of access consultancy and inclusive design skills now extends to transportation and urban design, in addition to buildings.

David is author of several publications and articles on a wide range of related subjects. He has contributed to and chaired many national committees and continues to give talks in the UK and abroad. David is visiting Professor of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and a member of the Quality Review Panel for the London Legacy Development Panel.

Eddie Booth

Eddie is a heritage specialist with qualifications in town planning and urban design. He worked for local authorities in London and West

Yorkshire before joining English Heritage as an Historic Areas Adviser. Since the turn of the century, he has been a Director of The Conservation Studio, a practice that has provided heritage services to a range of clients including more than a third of the local authorities in England and Wales. Eddie has been the Chairman and then the President of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. He was a member of the Design Review Panel for the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company and a trustee of the Woodchester Mansion Trust.

He is currently a member of the Oxford Design Review Panel and has a parallel role as Course Leader for the MSc in Building Conservation at the Weald & Downland Museum in Sussex.


Chris Bowden

Chris is a geographer/planner with over 15 years’ experience in private planning consultancy. His particular specialisms include community

regeneration and infrastructure planning. He set up Navigus in 2010 to help communities take greater ownership of social change through more positive engagement with the planning system.

Chris has supported numerous communities across the country in preparing neighbourhood plans, introducing a range of community engagement techniques to help people constructively shape future change. He has also undertaken a significant amount of work on infrastructure planning and social impact assessment, including for major regeneration projects such as Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea, Southend and north-east Chelmsford. Before setting up Navigus, Chris worked for four of the leading planning consultancies in the UK.

Alongside his professional career, he is a director of a local charity which seeks to support local regeneration projects and enhances his own experience of community planning through active membership of a number of community action groups. Chris is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute - Chartered Institute of Housing, Planning for Housing Network and a planning panel member for Civic Voice, the charity which champions the civic movement. He also undertakes training and case studies for the Planning Advisory Service.

Dr. Jos Boys

Jos trained in architecture and has worked as an architectural journalist, researcher, educator and in community-based

design practice. She is particularly interested in how the design of buildings and spaces affects diverse everyday lives, and in improving our built surroundings for those with the least access. Jos was a co-founder of Matrix feminist architects practice in the 1980s, and has also done a considerable number of community projects - most recently bringing together disabled artists with architects and other built environment professionals to explore ways of designing more creatively.

She is author of ‘Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life’. Jos also has expertise in new learning spaces for higher and adult education, having undertaken consultancies at many universities worldwide; and written extensively on this subject, including ‘Towards Creative Learning Spaces: re-thinking the architecture of post-compulsory education’.

Keith Bradley

Keith is a senior partner with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS), joining in 1987.

He was made a partner in 1995, senior partner in 1997 and established the London office in 1998. Keith was Vice Chair of the Cabe National Design Review Panel and Trustee of Shape East, Centre for Architecture and the Built Environment, Cambridge. He has led numerous FCBS award winning projects including 30 Royal Institute of British Architecture Awards; the Queens Award for Sustainability and the 2008 Stirling Prize. Ongoing work in London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Bath with award winning high-density urban housing and major urban regeneration schemes throughout the UK. Public buildings include London Academies and two new buildings for the Royal Air Force Museums.

Recently completed Higher Education projects include the masterplan and design of London’s largest student campus for Queen Mary, University of London, and the London Centre for Nanotechnology for University Collage London. The new Business School and Student Hub for Manchester Metropolitan University, and their new School of Art and Design are currently nearing completion. Early design stages of a new 170 million urban campus for the University of Ulster, Belfast is a major work in progress.


Angela Brady

Angela was born in Dublin and graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in Architecture. Past president of the Royal

Institute of British Architects, and Director of Brady Mallalieu Architects, set up with Robin Mallalieu: an award winning Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered practice, specialising in quality contemporary sustainable design, based in London. Angela has given over 50 keynote speeches around the world, including in India, China, Vietnam, USA, the EU and Middle East on sustainable city making and low carbon design.

Angela advises on many design review committees, including English Heritage-Urban Panel; Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland; Design Champion for London Development Agency; Chaired Royal Institute of British Architects Women in Architecture and is a rep of the Global Irish Business Forum.

She is a professional TV broadcaster co-writing and co-presenting a new series: “Designing Ireland” - a review of Irish Architecture, Craft and Industrial Design and Design Thinking. Angela has previously presented the overseas strand of The Home Show Channel 4 and designed/built the house on “Building the Dream” on ITV. She co-produces/directs and makes short films including: “Why Study Architecture? - The role of the architect” and: “Designing for Champions”, about the London 2012 designers.

Paul Bragman

Paul originally trained in town planning and has integrated this into 20 years’ experience in community and economic

development regeneration in the UK & internationally.

At Genesis Housing Group he established a successful Community Development Programme, delivering 57 projects across London, benefitting over 3000 people and generating additional funding of £1.25m a year. For ten years, Paul has been running a consultancy in community and economic regeneration, providing community and economic development services, as an effective way to deliver tangible change to local communities. He has worked with over 80 housing associations, local authorities, community/voluntary organisations and non governmental organisations in the UK, Asia, South America and Africa. Paul was a Board member of Stonebridge Housing Action Trust and is currently a Trustee of Conflict and Change, and Action Village India.

He is also an approved National Council Voluntary Organisations consultant and a member of the International Association of Community Development and the Community Cohesion Practitioner Network. Qualifications include: Advanced Certificate Conflict Resolution and Mediation - Birkbeck University (06-07); MA Environmental Planning - Nottingham University (91–93); BA (HONS) Social Sciences - Middlesex University (85–89).

Darren Bray

Darren is Technical Director of award winning New Forest practice: Pad Studio.

He has 20 years’ extensive experience

in private practice, coordinating a broad range of projects from £150K to £3.1m, including private houses, interior projects, community projects, educational projects and listed buildings. Darren was project architect on the award winning New Forest private house in 2009. A key member of the Pad Studio team, who were awarded Royal Institute of British Architects South Emerging practice of the year, in 2014. He has been a part time studio tutor at Portsmouth School of Architecture since 2007, and recently joined the Royal Institute of British Architects for change committee. Darren is also Non Executive Director at concrete consultancy: Grey Matter, concrete that assists architects and contractors through experience and practical knowledge in the production of fair-faced bespoke concrete work.

He was chosen as one of the Royal Institute of British Architects role models earlier this year, and is also a visiting critic at Brighton Interior architecture school, and a part 3 Examiner at both Portsmouth and London Metropolitan schools of architecture.


Joyce Bridges

Joyce is a planner with wide experience of regeneration, planning and heritage policy making. She is a former Cabe Commissioner and a

former English Heritage Commissioner.

Joyce is currently a trustee of the Royal Museums Greenwich; a member of the Mayor of London’s Design Advisory Group; English Heritage’s Urban Panel and MADE’s design advice reference group. She had a long civil service career working on planning, urban policy, regeneration and housing. Joyce held senior posts in the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Government Office for London, where she advised successive secretaries on strategic planning and high profile case work in London. She played a leading personal role in the transformation of Trafalgar Square and Somerset House and the provision of new Thames piers.

Since leaving the civil service she has provided advice to the Heritage Lottery Fund and other public bodies. She was awarded the CBE in 2001.

Abigaile Bromfield

Abigaile is a qualified town planner and mediator with a mix of public and private sector experience, gained over a period of 15 years. She has

recently been on secondment to the Cabinet Office Implementation Unit for the Prime Minister, advising on improving the implementation of housing and development related policies.

Abigaile currently manages the Arup Midland Planning team. Her work with Arup - Engineering Consultants, combines practical planning experience with a strong track record of action orientated research and evaluation, as well as development management. Her recent experience includes managing masterplanning and application submission for the new town of Northstowe; national training support for the Planning Advisory Service; providing change management advice and ongoing support for the Highways Division at a County Council; and supporting the delivery of consents for major infrastructure.

Andrew Brookes

Andrew is a qualified Masters of Business Administration, Chartered Building Services Engineer and Registered Low Carbon Consultant.

He is one of the youngest Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers, with over 26 years’ experience, starting as a trainee Engineer at the age of 16. Andrew has been a Council Member of the Building Services Research and Information Association for the last 9 years and is a representative on both the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers and BSRIA Building Information Modelling task forces.

Andrew is currently a Regional Director with United Research Services - Engineers heading up the Education and Blue Light sectors with responsibility for major multi-discplinary bid management and delivery across the UK. In this role there is extensive client and multiple stakeholder engagement at a variety of levels and Andrew is often ‘the face’ of United Research Services. Projects vary in size from a £1.5m primary school extension, to a £100m Public Finance Initiative scheme for Avon and Somerset Police Authority.


Alison Brooks

Educated at the University of Waterloo, Alison formed a partnership in Ron Arad Associates in the UK in 1989, founding

Alison Brooks Architects Ltd (ABA) in 1996 at Highgate Studios. Alison is the first UK architect to have won the Royal Institute of British Architecture’s and the three most prestigious awards for architecture: the Stirling Prize for Accordia Cambridge 2008; the Manser Medal 2007; and the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2006.

ABA has developed an international reputation for design excellence, ranging from urban regeneration, masterplanning, public buildings for the arts, higher education and housing; winning an international competition for the new Exeter College Quad at Oxford University. Alison was a Cabe National Design Review Panel member; sits on the Royal Institute of British Architects Awards Group and in 2011 was a Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize Juror. She was a Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association 2009-2011; has served as External Examiner at the Universities of Bath and Lincoln, currently at University College of London - Bartlett. She has been juror for the Housing Design Awards and Young Architect of the Year Awards.

She lectures internationally on architecture and urbanism. ABA’s completed buildings have twice featured in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture.

Adam Brown

Adam has been in architectural practice for 25 years.

He co-founded Landolt and Brown architects in 2006,

following 15 years’ work with John McAslan, and is currently engaged on various public sector projects across London. With specific experience in infrastructure projects and regeneration masterplans, design briefs and area action plans, current work includes major regeneration commissions in Tottenham working for the Greater London Authority, Haringey and Transport for London; including two new stations; a major public open space; public sector-led residential development and smaller scale workspace; retail and meanwhile-use initiatives for local creative industries/producers.

Adam is also leading Landolt and Brown’s high profile commission for Peckham Rye’s new station square, which includes the formation of a new public open space in the heart of Peckham’s town centre with a mix of local retail, healthcare, co-worker and community facilities surrounding the square; developed in close dialogue with the local community through the Peckham Codesign process. Adam is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and current member of Southwark and Hackney’s Design Review Panels. He is a member of the Mayor’s Specialist Assistance Team and has contributed to the Mayor’s Cycling Advisory Group and Roads Task Force.

Jessica Bryne-Daniel

Jess has over 25 years experience in the field of landscape design. Her particular interests lie in meaningful design and strategy

formation that ensure the unique essence of place is celebrated in a collaborative response to the client’s aspirations. She has worked with various practices promoting a thoughtful approach to projects that challenge mediocrity in design and where possible encourage users of the finished scheme to become involved in the design process. Recent work has included the re-design of the setting for the Chichester Festival Theatre; the design and implementation of a productive housing estate landscape, including a residents’ foraging plan and the sensitive re-location of the Happisburgh caravan park to avoid it succumbing to the ravages of the North Sea.

She currently works as a consultant for Camlin Lonsdale landscape architects and teaches Landscape Design at Leeds Metropolitan University. She sits on a number of Regional Design Review panels including Integreat Plus, and is a member of the recently formed Cabe Oxford Design Review Panel.


Robin Buckle

Robin is an urban designer who has worked extensively in the fields of planning, regeneration and urban design for over 30 years’.

He is currently Head of Urban Design for Transport for London, where he has worked for the last 6 years on a broad range of projects, from the production of design guidance documents to providing design input into significant transport infrastructure. Prior to Transport for London, he worked as principal urban designer for Design for London, part of the now defunct London Development Agency, and for Brent Council. Robin’s recent projects include the Emirates Air Line (cable car), where his role was design manager from inception to planning, and then as the client design interface, for the subsequent design and build stage.

More recently he acted as design manager for the design of the above-the-ground elements for the Northern Line Extension, including the expert design witness at the public inquiry for the Transport and Works Act, subsequently approved. Work has now started on site. Robin attends a number of design review panels within Transport for London and externally including Transport for London’s Design Governance Board and Design Review and the Mayors Design Advisory Group and associated panel reviews.

Dr. Lucy Bullivant

Lucy is a curator, author, Editor-in-Chief of Urbanista.org, her webzine on liveable urbanism, and an advisor. Elected an Honorary Fellow of

the Royal Institute of British Architects for her services to architecture in 2010. Her books include Masterplanning Futures, on adaptive planning, which won Book of the Year at the Urban Design Group Awards in 2014 (Routledge, 2012), and Recoded City: Co-creating urban futures, on participatory placemaking, co-authored with Thomas Ermacora (Routledge 2015).

She curated Urbanistas: women innovators in architecture, landscape and urban design, an exhibition for Roca London Gallery in 2015, which has toured to the Core, Newcastle, and Remake – We Make, an exhibition with WORKSHOP architecture, for the 2015 Bi-City of Urbanism/Architecture Shenzhen. Lucy has collaborated with Tate Modern; the Institute of Contemporary Arts; the Architectural League and Center for Architecture (American Institute of Architects New York Chapter), curating conferences and events; and is a mentor (Guerrilla Tactics, Royal Institute of British Architects, November 2015).

She has acted as expert witness, was Renaissance Advocate to Yorkshire Forward’s Renaissance Towns and Cities programme, 2007-2010, is a Member of the Scientific Committee, Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement, Paris, and of the Technical Committee, FRAC architecture centre, Orléans.

Jacqui Bunce

Jacquelie is a senior manager with strong project management, communication, organisational and presentation skills.

She joined the NHS in Hertfordshire in 2002, after a career in the commercial and charity sectors. Most of her NHS work has involved leading on strategic planning and implementing change across the county, including a five year stint as Programme Director for transformational change across the Hertfordshire health economy, from 2008. Jacqui led the development of the New QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City from inception to financial close, a project which involved significant stakeholder engagement in a politically challenging environment. The New QEII hospital is a commissioner-led £30m community facility which delivers new models of care to the local community.

All of these changes have been made in the context of developing sustainable integrated services which involve social care and the voluntary sector, in order to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients and carers. Her current role is responsibile for the development, implementation and tracking of the CCG’s five year strategic plan and annual operational plan, with additional specific leadership responsibilities for joint commissioning with Hertfordshire County Council including voluntary sector partnerships.


Catherine Burd

Catherine is a founding director of Burd Haward Architects, a small, award-winning architectural practice formed in 1998.

Their first built project won the Royal Institute of British Architects Manser Medal in 2002, and in 2005 we were selected by the Architects’ Journal, as one of ‘40 under 40’ emerging influential British practices. As director of Burd Haward Architects, Catherine leads design and delivery of numerous, carefully considered new buildings and spaces: from one-off houses: housing developments; schools; restaurants; arts and theatre projects.

Currently working on a major new building project for the National Trust on an architecturally sensitive rural site, with London Borough of Camden, designing housing for key urban infill sites, and with the City of London on the design of new sports pavilions on Hampstead Heath. Catherine is an experienced critic and communicator. She has taught and lectured at several Schools of Architecture, and is a Royal Institute of British Architects competitions assessor.

She has sat on may architectural awards panels, including Building Design Architect of the Year, National House Builders’ Council Housing, Manser Medal, RIBA & Civic Trust Awards. Catherine was a member of Cabe’s National Design Review Panel.

Mark Burgess

Mark is an Architect, Planner and Urban Designer with over 30 years’ experience in public and private sectors – currently working as Design

Team Leader at Leeds City Council and part-time lecturer/tutor on post graduate urban design course.

He has previous experience as a project architect developing a full range of building types. Mark’s current work ranges from major regeneration frameworks, urban design strategies, guidance and design review in planning to placemaking projects for new spaces in the city; design championing for housing; schools; transport initiatives (strategy/public realm & HS2); and other procurement/infrastructure projects: engaging closely with Councillors, consultants and wide range of stakeholders. He also leads the ‘design challenges and solutions’/placemaking module on the postgraduate urban design course at Leeds Beckett University.

Mark is involved with public-private sector inter-professional groups: partnership working in Leeds (including ‘Quality Public Spaces’ group of Property Forum). He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Town Planning Institute, Urban Design Group, Institute of Historic Building Conservation, former accredited Building for Life Assessor (& Cabe Enabler), and Academician in the Academy of Urbanism. He is also a panel member of Yorkshire and Humber Region Design Review Service.

Sarah Burgess

Sarah is a qualified town planner with over 15 years’ of experience in private and public sector planning, in both England and

Australia. She is currently working at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments. Her role as a senior lecturer in health and spatial planning requires her to undertake both teaching and research projects looking at the relationship between the built environment and health.

Sarah also has extensive experience in presenting and running workshops for all tiers of Government and the private sector. She has also prepared spatial planning documents in her previous role in local authorities and private practice in Australia, and managed a programme whilst at Cabe to support local authorities develop a clear vision and strategy for their area that addresses local issues, needs and circumstances. Through this work she has analysed over 70 core strategies across England and prepared a guidance document: Planning for Places, to assist local planning authorities in preparing a spatial plan.

Sarah has recently published an international textbook on Planning for Health and Well-being and a Handbook on Green Infrastructure. She is a member of the Academy of Urbanism.


Ruth Butler

Ruth is an architect and registered Royal Institute of British Architects Client Adviser, with expertise in education, health and

sports projects. She has a particular interest in special needs schools and the mental health sector.

Ruth has a proven track record working with local authorities, including the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Wandsworth Council. She engages with clients to produce a robust brief, advising on design quality, community engagement, design team selection and procurement. She was a key team member for the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s £130m redevelopment at Wimbledon for Building Design Partnership; developing the site masterplan and No. 1 court stadium. Ruth was a partner at David Morley Architects, leading their health and education sector work and delivering projects including: Talacre Sports Centre (Camden); St Bernard’s Mental Health Hospital, Ealing (Medium Secure Units); The Campus in North Somerset (two schools, library and sports centre). Her work has been widely published.

Ruth was a member of Cabe’s National Design Review Panel and has advised the Department for Education on physical education in schools, helping to write their ‘Fit for the Future’ publication. She has contributed to Sport England guidance documents and is a director of Horizon Leisure Trust.

Anne Byrne

Anne is an urban development and regeneration specialist with extensive experience. She is currently heading Hackney

Council’s Woodberry Down Estate regeneration programme, one of the largest in the country and on target to deliver more than 5,500 new homes.

Anne was also Head of Physical Regeneration at Waltham Forest; a Project Director at Barnet Council where she played a pivotal role in the Brent Cross/Cricklewood regeneration; and Director of Development at Stonebridge Housing Action Trust. She has delivered and revised masterplans, including for Woodberry Down. While at Southwark Council, Anne was part of the team that commissioned Peckham Library which won the Stirling Prize in 2000. She also commissioned the Fawood Children’s Centre in Stonebridge which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2005. Anne was a Cabe enabler for nine years and worked on several national projects.

She has excellent experience of working with devlopers and negotiating development agreements, and is strongly committed to partnership working with local communities.

Andrew Cameron

Andrew is an engineer with a background in transportation, architectural engineering and urban design.

He has over 20 years’ experience in how we can plan for movement whilst at the same time creating great streets and enjoyable places. He has been involved in many regeneration and masterplanning projects for villages, towns and cities in the UK and around the world. These include the £8B Earls Court redevelopment which will stitch new London streets into the fractured fabric of this part of the city; and proposals for Chicago Lakeside, a community of 50,000 people south of the downtown, with new city wide transit connections, a human scale, slow speed, strategic highway through the site and two miles of lakeshore walking and bike trails.

Andrew has acted as an advisor to the Government for The House of Commons Select Committees on Housing and Sustainable Communities. He is co-author of national and local design guidance, including The Urban Design Compendium, Designing Streets (for the Scottish Government), Manual for Streets 1 and 2 and The Abu Dhabi Urban Street Design Manual. He is a Design Review Panel Member for MADE, OPUN/Design East Midlands and Places Matter.


James Cameron

James is an international lawyer, policy adviser and entrepreneur, a barrister called in 1987. He has appeared in leading

cases in environment, trade and human rights including the arrest of General Pinochet, Hinkley Point, and the Shrimp/Turtle case at the World Trade Organisation.

James has negotiated international agreements such as Kyoto Protocol and the Framework Convention on Climate Change, represented several developing nations in dispute settlements, advised the European Commssion on regulating Greenhouse gas emissions, and was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group.

James founded Climate Change Capital a specialist investment firm in 2003, is currently Chairman of Overseas Development Institute, a leading research based think tank on development, Chairman of Agrica, a sustainable agriculture business, a member of General Electric’s Ecomagination Board, a Trustee of the Green Building Council, a Trustee of CDP an organisation which works with shareholders to disclose corporate data on emissions, water use and forest depletion, and a Sustainable Development Commisioner for London.

Charles Campion

Charles is a JTP partner in charge of co-design, collaborative planning processes with communities and stakeholders from all

backgrounds and sectors. For 20 years Charles has worked on masterplanning and urban design projects in the UK, Europe, China, Indonesia and India.

He was awarded the International Association of Public Participation Project of the Year Award, 2009, for Scarborough’s Renaissance. Recent projects include the award winning Community Planning process for the new zero carbon neighbourhood at Graylingwell Park, Chichester, and Community Planning Weekends for a high density, residential-led development at Silvertown Way, Newham, part of London’s Custom House and Canning Town Regeneration Area; the regeneration of St Clement’s Hospital including London’s first Community Land Trust; a new residential-led “Urban Village” in Newbury town centre; and for proposed urban extensions to Attleborough and Hethersett in Norfolk, Cirencester and Hereford.

Charles has led community charrettes as part of the Scottish Government’s Charrette Mainstreaming Programme; and internationally Charles has led several charrette processes in Sweden; an international multi-disciplinary team through charrette processes to plan an eco-region in Indonesia; participated in the Liangzhu Culture Village Community Planning Weekend, China; and run several community planning events in Iceland.

Rachel Capon

Rachel is a chartered meteorologist and consultant scientist with over 15 years’ experience.

Having started her career in the UK Met Office, she now combines her meteorological expertise with environmental and building physics to focus on climate change impacts and adaptation for the built environment sector. She served on the UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) User Panel and lead-authored the Built Environment Sector Report for the UK government’s First Climate Change Risk Assessment, published in 2012. She has analysed weather and climate related risks for a number of projects both in the UK, (e.g. the Three Regions Climate Change Group project, “Your Home in a Changing Climate”), and worldwide, (e.g. assessment of future weather risks and renewable energy resources for a new sustainable city master-plan in Russia).

Most recently, as a technical advisor at the Zero Carbon Hub, she led a government and industry funded evidence review on “Overheating in Homes”, which will feed into the development of different policy options for reducing the risk of extreme temperatures in British homes.


Matthew Carmona

Matthew is Professor of Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett, University College London.

He has previously lectured at the University of Nottingham and previously worked as a researcher at Strathclyde and Reading Universities and as an architect in practice. His research has focused on the policy and development context for delivering better quality design in the built environment, having worked on a range of research projects examining: design policies and guidance; design coding; residential design and development processes; delivering urban renaissance; the value of urban and architectural design; the working relationships between housing providers and planners; measuring quality in planning; managing external public space; local environmental quality and standards; London squares and high streets. This research has led to an extensive range of academic and professional publications. Between 2003 and 2011, he served as Head of the Bartlett School of Planning and now leads on urban design across the faculty. Matthew is European Associate Editor for the ‘Journal of Urban Design’, and was formally on the Research Reference Group of Cabe. He is a regular advisor to the government and government agencies both in the UK and overseas.

Richard Cass

Richard qualified initially as an architect and landscape architect; has over 40 years’ experience in housing, transport, leisure, education,

industry, heritage, health and public space; and as a masterplanner and project manager on large scale regeneration projects. Projects include the 100ha Riverside Regeneration project in Liverpool and the 1000ha Bishopton new settlement.

At Cabe Richard served as a Commissioner, a member of the London 2012 Olympic and Legacy Review panels, vice - chairman of the Ecotown review panel, and on design review panels for other large scale developments. He has also served on advisory panels in North West England for the Liverpool Docklands and Atlantic Gateway projects.

He is a trustee of Heritage Works Building Preservation Trust and Chairman of the Cass Foundation. He has wide experience of sustainable development, demonstrating how environmental, economic and social objectives can be delivered together, rather than in competition. This covers technical aspects such as renewable energy, transport and drainage, as well as wider land use, ecological and masterplanning issues. He has a particular interest in health and the environment, and how design can contribute to improving both. His work has received many awards, and he has contributed extensively to national and international conferences.

Ben Castell

Ben is a town planner specialising in policy research, urban regeneration, neighbourhood planning and masterplanning.

He is Director of Strategic Planning and Urban Design at AECOM and had about 18 years in practice. Author of the ‘Layout and Connectivity’ and ‘Quality Places’ urban design chapters of the Government’s Manual for Streets, Ben is also principal author of a number of national (UK and elsewhere) guidance documents that explore the links between planning and design; covering topics such as crime prevention (a particular specialism), workplace design and community engagement. Ben has led the production of several masterplans for town centres, estate regeneration schemes and urban extensions, and has worked with numerous communities on their neighbourhood plans.

He has also produced major workplace masterplans for some of the world’s largest engineering companies. Spatial planning experience includes leading several growth studies and sub-regional studies in places such as Greater Nottingham, Cornwall, Lincolnshire and Essex.


Philip Cave

Philip has headed up Philip Cave Associates, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers, for 25 years. Before that he worked for an

architects practice, city and county councils.

For 9 years he has been a member of Design Review Panels, initially for Southwark and now for Newham, Islington, South and East , and Transport for London. His main passion is in designing inspirational public realm and semi private schemes for both private developers and local authorities. Recent schemes include inner city mixed use projects with public squares, strategic master-planning; high density housing with public and semi-private spaces; roof gardens; green roofs and walls; waterside schemes; sustainable settlements, and gateway projects. Current projects are in the UK; past schemes have been in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

Philip was elected an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism and was on the Urban Design Group Executive Committee for 25 years. He has been a tutor and lecturer at a number of universities, and has given training to planners at Urban Design London. Past projects have won a number of awards including from the Civic Trust, Landscape Institute, British Association of Landscape Industries, Property Papers/Journals and Local Authorities.

Lynne Ceeney

Lynne is Global Head of Sustainability for a professional services company, with 25 years’ experience of sustainability in the built environment.

She assists design teams to integrate sustainability into development proposals and works with organisations to help them embed sustainability in their existing decision making processes. Lynne is an expert in collaborative design and masterplanning, enabling stakeholders with different skills and experience to design and deliver sustainable places. She also supports organisations and project teams on resilience. Key projects include: appointed to Environmental Review Panel assessing proposals for the 2012 Olympics Athletes’ Village; manager of two Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative programmes – visioning and design charrette in Callendar, and stakeholder workshops for the local plan Major Issues Report in sensitive rural locations; Technical Director for sustainability assessments of alternative infrastructure route alignments; technical lead for Climate Change Adaptation reports for two major airports; technical contributor to a Green Economy study for a large unitary authority in the east of England.

Lynne is appointed to the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment’s Strategic Advisory Council. She was a member of the Board of the Academy for Sustainable Communities, and the Homes & Communities Agency Skills and Knowledge Panel.

Philip Chambers

Phil, a wheelchair user, has over 20 years’ experience of providing inclusive environmental access.

He was co-author of British Telecom Countryside for All Standards and Guidance and has contributed to a range of inclusive access advisory documents. He is a member of the judging panel for the Canal and River Trust Living Waterways Awards; a former Director of Berneslai Homes, and a Trustee of the Safe Anchor Trust. Phil specialises in working with architects, designers and conservation managers to provide inclusive access plans that are clear, informative and complement the work of co-professionals. Phil has managed a range of projects around the UK to enable service providers to better engage with disabled people and their advocates, and to more effectively meet their responsibilities under the Equality Duty. He is presently carrying out an equality impact assessment on behalf of Natural Resources Wales at several visitor destinations across Wales, and also working with York Minster, as part of its iconic Revealing the Minster conservation and learning project.

Phil advises about inclusive access to museums and galleries, religious buildings, and worked with architects in the design of the Abbeydale Industrial Museum visitor centre and the Horniman Museum Discovery Centre.


Jim Chapman

Jim is a chartered architect and urban designer with over 35 years’ experience as a consultant, delivering a wide range of projects in

many sectors. He established an independent consultancy in 2006, which focuses on supporting and advising clients on the delivery of high quality projects.

Jim is a Visiting Professor of Architecture for the Manchester School of Architecture, following 9 years on the governing board, and he continues to advise the Manchester Metropolitan University on design and procurement matters on several strategic developments, including the Business School; Art and Design Building; short listed for the Stirling Award in 2014; Birley Fields, the faculty of Education and Healthcare, and the campus master plan focusing on the All Saints campus. In 2014 the University was awarded Client of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Jim acts as an adviser for the Royal Institute of British Architects competitions team, as a client adviser for urban design, education and healthcare projects.

He is a member of the design review panel for Architecture and Design Scotland. Jim is an accredited Design Quality Indicator facilitator in the healthcare sector for Construction Industry Council.

Richard Charge

Richard is an award winning urban designer and chartered town planner with over 12 years’ experience in the built environment.

His background includes public and private sector experience, combined with research and third sector support; working on wide-ranging projects specialising in masterplanning and design guidance. Richard is a Director at +Plus Urban Design, a company he co-founded. They have established themselves as design advisors to a range of clients in different sectors across the UK. Previously he led the urban design service at _space Architecture across their offices in Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester. Prior to that he was a senior urban designer for the Tribal Group (formerly Llewelyn Davies Yeang). Richard also worked for Newcastle City Council as urban designer for 6 years, where he was part of the design team, which won a Cabe award (2005).

This followed a position at Global Urban Research Unit, University of Newcastle. Richard is a member of Northern Architecture’s Expert Panel. He is also an academician at the Academy of Urbanism, a member of the Historic Towns Forum and the Urban Design Group.

Heather Cheesbrough

Heather is a landscape architect and town planner, specialising in spatial planning, urban design, public realm, masterplanning and

regeneration. She has 20 years’ experience of working in the public and private sectors, consisting of three London boroughs; the urban design consultancies Urban Initiatives; and EDAW/AECOM, and her present position as Head of Planning and Building Control at St Albans City & District Council.

Key projects she has managed or directed are the A13 Artscape; Oxford Street improvements; West Yorkshire Urban Renaissance; Doncaster masterplan and Town Team; Mid Sussex masterplans; Swindon public realm strategy and Kings Norton Housing Renewal. During her time at Westminster City Council, she was responsible for public art and facilitated a project with Artangel to bring the international multi media artist Tony Oursler to Soho Square.

Since being at St Albans she has overseen the redrafting of the core strategy, commissioned the preparation of a public realm strategy and worked with the local community to prepare design codes with the Princes Foundation under the Department for Communities and Local Governement Neighbourhood Planning initiative.


Darryl Chen

Darryl has demonstrated expertise through 12 years of professional practice, promoting good design as a

practitioner and thoughtleader, within the field of urban design.

He is a partner at Hawkins\Brown and leads the urban design and research studio, delivering masterplans for brownfield sites; campuses; science parks; housing estates and districts. Darryl has both a client-facing role developing new business and a hands-on design role translating complex briefs into practical design solutions. He champions innovation within the practice under the auspices of the &\also thinktank, a research vehicle that informs project briefs, explores new markets and speculates on future directions for architecture and urbanism. Darryl regularly writes and speaks on innovation and urban design both in publication and at speaking engagements. Notably in 2012 he was invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, and in 2014 was invited to speak and judge at the World Architecture Forum.

Darryl was named in Blueprint magazine in “25 who will change architecture in 2010”. For 2 years he led design studios at the Architectural Association and Bartlett Schools of Architecture; and has been guest critic at the Architectural Association, Cambridge, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Syracuse and Oxford Brookes universities.

Dave Chetwyn

Dave is a chartered town planner with 26 years’ experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors.

He is the author of the Locality Roadmap Guide to Neighbourhood Planning and has acted as a Neighbourhood Plan independent examiner. Current roles include Managing Director of Urban Vision Enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC); Chair of the Historic Towns Forum; Vice Chair of the National Planning Forum, and Associate of the Consultation Institute. Former roles include Head of Planning Aid England, Chair of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and a team leader in local Government. Dave has advised various Government departments; stakeholder groups; reviews and Parliamentary Select Committees on planning, regeneration, heritage, urban design, and community engagement.

He has leadership and management experience with various UK, national and local organisations and a strong track record in third-sector organisational development. Dave is a Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), Full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Andrew Claiborne

Andrew is a practising architect and principal lecturer within the School of Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University.

He has been teaching architecture and working within the built environment for over 30 years. Andrew is a registered architect and corporate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and was recently appointed an examiner for the Architects Registration Board (ARB), where he works with other professionals examining UK and International applicants. Andrew’s professional interests include the appreciation of design quality in architecture; urban design, and historic building conservation, providing presentations to various local authorities and interest groups and engaging with students to encourage design thinking. He is also a Fellow of the Forum for the Built Environment (FBE) and Urban Design Group member.

Andrew’s consultancy work covers public and local planning inquiries for private, corporate and local authorities, and he acts as an expert witness on planning matters relating to design and historic building conservation.


Peter Clash

Peter founded Clash Associates Architects in London in 1994, working in urban design and master-planning, transport and infrastructure,

bridges, arts, education, hotels and leisure - with projects completed in the UK, France, Holland, and China. Recent built work includes a new building for the Imperial War Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London; new hotels at Cardiff and Newcastle railway stations; Tianjin Fishing Port, China; and the Level Centre, Derbyshire. The practice has won many awards and been published widely.

Peter trained at the University of Bath, and then worked with Foster Associates in Hong Kong, and also with Mitchell/Giurgola on the New Australian Parliament Buildings in Canberra. He was a project director with Allsop and Lyall Architects, London from 1986, realising projects such as Sheringham Pool, Lambeth River Station and Canary Wharf lifting bridges/control building. He led design teams on large infrastructure projects including Cardiff Bay Barrage, Crossrail Paddington, and Bangkok Transit System. Peter has taught at various schools of architecture in the UK since 1989, and as visiting professor at TU Vienna (University of Technology). He is a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Client Design Advisor and has been a Built Environment Expert for Cabe since 2009.

Derek Clements-Croome

Derek is a professor emeritus at Reading University and consultant in architectural engineering, with 50 years’ experience,

combining work in industry and academia. Currently working with BuroHappold, A5 plus architects and Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) on enhancing the briefing and post occupancy evaluation processes, with Arup and the British Council for Offices on the impact of wearable technology on the workplace.

Derek chairs the Intelligent Buildings Group for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers; sits on three committees for the British Council for Offices; is editor for Intelligent Buildings International Journal; lectures nationally and internationally on liveable intelligent buildings and cities in several countries including China, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand (Intelligent Buildings: Design Management and Operation, 2013).

Derek works with the UK Green Building Council on health and well-being issues and was a team member for the World Green Building Counci (2014 Report). Derek is a Fellow of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Academy; a Commissioner on Air Quality for Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council, and Coordinator for the International Council for Building (CIB) Commission W098 on intelligent and responsive buildings.

Michál Cohen

Michál studied architecture in South Africa before moving to London to set up Walters and Cohen with Cindy Walters in 1994.

She has worked on a variety of projects, including one-off houses, a gallery in Durban, and a wellness centre in the Bank of England. In 2003 she led designs for an exemplar primary school that were published under the Department for Education’s Schools for the Future initiative. Michál is responsible for many of Walters and Cohen’s innovative and award-winning schools based on the principles of that design, and her expertise on the subject of design in learning environments is now well established.

She was on CABE’s education review panel and enjoys her current role as one of the Design Council Cabe’s Built Environment Experts. In 2012 Cindy and Michál were awarded Architects Journal (AJ) Woman Architect of the Year.


Garry Colligan

Garry is a consultant in urban design and planning, advising both public and private sector clients. His practice, think place, was

established in 2006, and has delivered thought-provoking pieces of work in England, Scotland, Ireland, Poland and Romania - perhaps best known in this country for its involvement in Chelsea Barracks.

Recently, Garry co-founded Place Research Lab, a community interest company set up in partnership with the University of East London (UEL), dedicated to applied research into important urban issues. He is an Urban Design Surgeon for Urban Design London, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and formerly a member of the East Midlands Design Review Panel.

Until 2005 Garry was Urban Design Director at Terry Farrell and Partners, where he helped develop one of the leading masterplanning groups in the UK. He began as an architect at Grimshaw where he became a Project Director, leading a number of complex transport projects. He gained international experience working for Skidmore Owings and Merrill as a student worked for numerous smaller practices. Overall, Garry has 30 years’ experience in architecture and urbanism and his extensive experience covers most sectors including transport, healthcare, residential, commercial, mixed-use, education and public realm.

Nicole Collomb

Nicole is a Chartered Landscape Architect and public space specialist with over 25 years’ experience of working in the public, private and

voluntary sectors.

As former Head of Knowledge Services at the Landscape Institute and Head of Public Space management and skills at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), Nicole is an influential advocate for high quality landscape and public realm with experience of delivering research, strategies, best practice guidance and training at a national and international level. At CABE, Nicole produced national good practice guidance on open space strategies, community led public space and a national strategy for green space skills. She continues to advise local authorities on strategic approaches to green infrastructure and public space. At the Landscape Institute Nicole led on promoting a landscape led approach to new housing, including the authoring of ‘Profitable Places’, a publication aimed at housing developers.

Nicole is a regular Green Flag Award and Landscape Institute Awards judge. She has written for national and international publications on green space planning, management and design including Landscape Architecture Journal China and is a contributor to the forthcoming, ‘Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation’ published by Edward Elgar.

Charlotte Colver

Charlotte, a Landscape Institute (LI) Chartered Landscape Architect since 1983 and Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

Associate Member since 2013, was a practising landscape architect for several local authorities from 1977, and consultant from 1988-1999 in Scotland and Northern England, with widely ranging urban and rural design experience in Edinburgh, Lothian, the Borders, Gateshead and Northumberland.

Early archaeological involvement, in London and Oxfordshire, informed designs that included Victorian park restoration Saltwell Park, Gateshead in 2000, with emphasis on accessibility and multi-ethnic engagement. Subsequent grounds maintenance management in Northumberland informed Charlotte’s strategic landscape-led approach to masterplanning and development consultations, part of her dual landscape-planning policy role in Alnwick and Northumberland from 2005-15. Charlotte always provides a high level of landscape advocacy, drafting Core Strategy environment chapters, helping develop environment evidence studies for Northumberland and inputting to regional partnership working on Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) guidance in 2015. As RTPI(North East) branch committee member, 2011-13, LI(NE) branch chair, 2013-15 and NE Design Review and Enabling Service Panel Member since 2014 Charlotte continued to deliver productive exchanges of ideas and debate with other professions.

Currently Charlotte’s role is to support neighbourhood planning in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse.


Peter Connell

An Inclusive Design Consultant of 16 years’ experience, Peter is an international expert and active policy maker in the field of

Inclusive Design. He was both founder and leader of the Arup Accessible Environments team for 13 years before establishing Peter Connell Associates (PCA).

Peter has worked nationally and internationally to achieve inclusive environments. He provides design solutions to accommodate or surpass regulatory requirements, and delivers to clients’ expectations or even exceeds them. PCA gives practical Access advice to developers and designers from concept to completion, whether for private buildings or urban masterplanning across all sectors.

PCA’s practical strategic/management solutions ensure businesses are compliant with the current Access regulations. Peter resolves conflicts between regulations, devises strategies for Inclusive access and egress, and advises on practical designs, detailing of architecture and architectural finishes. Wherever local Access standards do not exist, he produces clear and concise guidance, reflecting best practice from a selection of international standards. This results in compliant company specific Standards and Guidance, which can be used on all company buildings worldwide. Peter has substantial experience of working with multi-disciplinary design teams. He is also well-versed in working on heritage buildings.

Annie Coombs

Annie is a landscape architect; a fellow of the Landscape Institute (LI), with a postgraduate planning qualification.

She began her career in the public sector and has held senior management roles in environmental consultancy organisations. Annie sat on the group board of a UK environmental management consultancy as managing director for Asian businesses, holding board responsibility for risk management and human resources. She worked in Asia for over 15 years, with responsibility for offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Her project work in Hong Kong was mainly on assessment and landscape planning for major infrastructure and new towns. She is now an independent consultant and enabler, engaged in green infrastructure and environmental regeneration. She sat on three design review panels, including CABEs national panel, is joint chair for the North West’s panel: Places Matter! A Building for Life examiner, and examining inspector for major infrastructure with the Planning Inspectorate (PINS), and a Glass-House enabler.

For 10 years Annie has undertaken enabling and training work, including open space, green infrastructure and public realm strategies, flood recovery plans, rural settlement options, design competitions and localism. She part wrote the brief for the 2012 Olympic Parklands. Annie is an active volunteer community planner.

Michael Coombs

Michael graduated as a Civil Engineer from Cape Town University and started his working life building roads in the Kalahari Desert. He then

joined a team designing long span bridges on the Garden Route, before completing a postgraduate year at Imperial College.

Since 1977, at Alan Baxter and Associates, he has worked on a wide variety of building projects and bridges. More recently, he has become interested in placemaking and urbanism; in particular the role that designers of buildings and infrastructure play in fashioning the character of towns and cities. He has worked in several of the UK’s most significant historic buildings, helping to develop an approach which is evidence-based rather than rooted in theory, explaining how they work using contemporary thinking. He has also engineered several special new build projects in the full range of structural materials.

Michael is involved in the training of young professionals and the overall management and direction at his firm. He balances this with a hands-on contribution to the firm’s projects, mainly at the conceptual design stage, but also in detail on selected projects. Michael has served on the Board of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering and chaired its Membership Committee.


Gerard Couper

Gerard is a stakeholder and community engagement specialist with over 20 years’ experience in policy for

sustainable development in the public sector.

He is currently working with the Exeter Community Forum and the City Council to develop the Exeter Community Strategy, which will identify priorities, programmes and an allocation process for distributing Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funds to city neighbourhoods. Gerard is experienced at developing and managing engagement processes, from Neighbourhood Plan level to large scale engagement process with multiple stakeholders. He has led the engagement on a number of masterplanning processes, most recently for the development of the Runwell Hospital site in Essex, on behalf of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).

Gerard is experienced at using innovative and visual methods in engaging the community, for example in the Plymbridge Cyclehub project, he led a consensus building process with different interest groups, using site maps to clarify site-specific areas of concern for each interest group. He is a qualified and experienced facilitator and coach, a partner with CAG Consultants, and also works independently as a life and business coach.

Ged Couser

Ged is an Architect Director with Building Design Partnership (BDP), who leads the Architect Profession group within their Manchester Studio.

He has been fully qualified for 24 years and previously worked for Nicholas Grimshaw and Stephen Hodder and Partners. Ged’s work with BDP is primarily focused on Healthcare. He has extensive knowledge and experience of leading the design and delivery of major and complex projects, both in the UK and abroad, from initial concept stage through to completion. Ged has also led the design and delivery of a number projects in the Further Education Sector including the Calman Learning Centre at the University of Durham, which received a local Civic Trust Award . He was also Project Director for the new Alder Hey Children’s Health Park, which has just been successfully handed over and is also Project Director for the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool, a major new hospital to be constructed in the city.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Places Matter! North West Design Review Panel, and is also an active member of the Council of Manchester Architects, for which he has responsibility for the Student Awards and the Lecture Series.

Rob Cowan

Rob,a Chartered Town Planner Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), director of Urban Design Skills, is one of the UK’s most

experienced urban design trainers and authors of design guidance. He was joint author of the government’s design guidance: By Design, and author of design guides for the Scottish Government: Designing Places, Housing Quality, and Masterplanning.

Rob has originated three influential urban design methods: the Placecheck method of urban design audit, the skills appraisal method Capacitycheck, and the design appraisal method Qualityreviewer. His skills include demystifying urban design and planning; writing and editing urban design and planning guidance; and training planning staff/elected members.

Rob delivers the Royal Town Planning Institute Masterclasses on Design in the Planning System, is editor of Context, the journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. He was a Teaching Fellow (Urban Design) at the Bartlett School, University College London (UCL), 2004-6, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, De Montfort University, 1995-2003. Prior to joining Urban Design Skills in 2007, Rob was Director of Urban Design Group, a consultant at Urban Initiatives, Deputy Editor of the Architects’ Journal, Editor of Roof (Shelter’s housing magazine), and Editor of Town and Country Planning.


Rosemary Coyne

Rosemary is a Chartered Landscape Architect specialising in supporting the development of low carbon sustainable communities.

She has over 20 years’ experience of working with public, private and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the UK, with some experience of working in Africa, India and South America. Key projects include the redevelopment of Birmingham City Centre, as Eastside Sustainability Advisor, and subsequently as the Built Environment Policy Manager for the Regional Development Agency, managing the West Midlands Sustainable Design and Construction development standards.

Currently Rosemary has several roles including project manager with Accord Housing for their European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) Sustainable Retrofit and Smart Grids project; and as co-ordinator for the Sustainable Housing Action Partnership. Rosemary is a West Midlands Green Leader; Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and member of MADE and Urban Vision design review panels and a Centre of Refubishment Excellence (CoRE) Fellow.

Michael Crilly

Michael is a town planner and urban designer with over 25 years professional experience gained in local government, private consultancy,

academia and the community sector throughout the UK. He is currently working as a founding partner of Studio UrbanArea LLP, a Newcastle based partnership which undertakes work with a sustainable, ethical and community focus.

Michael has specific experience in strategic urban regeneration gained from roles as urban design team leader with Newcastle City Council leading on design coding, competitions and area masterplanning, and as the regional programme manager for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in the Tees Valley providing expertise and training for development agencies and local authority officers and members.

A specialist in sustainable housing at the strategic scale, Michael was responsible for the winning masterplan for the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) ‘Carbon Challenge’ site in Peterborough, and at the individual scale, designing and delivering several ‘Retrofit for the Future’ domestic renovations to Passive House principles. With a PhD in Sustainable Cities, he holds part-time research and teaching roles with Teesside, De Montfort and Newcastle Universities. He helped to establish a new Regional Community Land Trust for Yorkshire and the North East of England.

Dorian Crone

Dorian has been a Chartered Architect and Town Planner and a member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) for over 25

years. He is a committee member of the IHBC, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the International Committee on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), ICOMOS UK and has been a court member with the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, and a Trustee of The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. Dorian has worked for over 30 years as Historic Buildings and Areas Inspector with English Heritage (now Historic England), responsible for providing advice to all the London Boroughs.

He has worked as a consultant and expert witness for over 20 years, advising a varied client base on heritage and design matters involving complex, high profile heritage and new build projects in design and heritage sensitive locations. Dorian is a panel member of the London Borough of Islington Design Review Panel and The John Betjeman Design Award. He has also been a panel member of The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Architectural Awards and The Philip Webb Award along with a number of other public sector and commercial design awards schemes.


Richard Crutchley

Richard is a chartered town planner with a varied career and background in charities, quangos, local authorities and a regeneration

company spanning over twenty years.

Most recently, Richard has been engaged in planning policy in Stevenage, and the London Borough of Hounslow, conducting and completing an open space review in the former, and green belt review in the latter. He also engages in neighbourhood planning projects and town centre masterplanning projects.

Richard is a director of his own publishing company, a board member of Headway North London, a head injury charity and, within his own community, has led on a play streets initiative.

Jane Dann

Jane is an urban designer, architect and chartered town planner and a founding director of Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design.

She has 30 years’ experience in practice, mainly in urban design consultancy.

Her focus is on the interface between design and planning, and securing quality through the planning process at various scales, from strategic to detailed design. Her interests include the distinctive character of different places, particularly historic environments. Jane’s specialist expertise includes design policy; guidance and design coding, having led a research programme that shaped government policy and jointly authored ‘Preparing Design Coding - A Practice Manual’ (2006). Skilled at steering complex projects with a multi-headed client group, and challenging circumstances or ill-defined brief, she has acted as masterplan advisor to deliver a broad range of proposals. Jane’s experience on design review panels includes Cabe, Berkshire, Southwark and Inspire East.

A member of Historic England’s London Advisory Committee and the Academy of Urbanism, Jane has spoken at conferences and training events and is involved in education, currently for Sheffield University. Formerly a CABE Enabler and Building for Life (BfL) Assessor.

Meredith Davey

Meredith is a Senior Associate Director and leads the UK Environmental Design Practice of Atelier Ten.

Alongside advanced sustainable building and Masterplan design, he delivers bespoke services that include advanced analysis of both physical response to environments and financial impacts. Within this role he has developed numerous Research and Development studies, relating to future building technologies or the environmental impact of new or existing buildings. He has led projects across the built environment and at varying values. Project highlights include refurbishments of listed buildings (St. Paul’s, Onslow Sq.), major city speculative office buildings (Trinity, EC3, London), universities (University of the Arts, London), residential (Chelsea Barracks, London and the Infinity Building, Budapest), and cultural (Gardens by the Bay, Singapore). With a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Bristol and a postgraduate from Concordia University, Montreal, Meredith regularly gives public and educational talks globally, and has contributed to numerous publications.

He has been a Visiting Lecturer on the MSc in Intelligent Buildings programme at Reading University since 2009 and is a member of the Energy Institute, a Chartered Engineer, and a Chartered Environmentalist.


Neil Davidson

Neil is a landscape architect and partner of J & L Gibbons. He joined the firm in 1999, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt. Neil

maintains strong links with education.

He taught at the Architectural Association and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge, University of East London (UEL), and Edinburgh College of Art. His portfolio of projects ranges from sub-regional strategic plans and urban regeneration frameworks to public parks, higher education projects. He is experienced in the assessment, design, conservation and management of a wide range of historic and statutorily protected landscapes, parks and gardens.

Neil’s projects have been finalists in the prestigious Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize 2014, and won the Vauxhall Missing Link international competition in 2013. They have been awarded Civic Trust and Landscape Institute design; masterplanning; communication and strategic planning awards, winning the 2008 and 2011 Landscape Institute President’s Award for the East London Green Grid, and Making Space in Dalston respectively. The Angel Building was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2011.

Kathryn Davies

Kathryn is a heritage and planning consultant with over 30 years’ experience, principally in the public sector.

She worked first in local government, in planning and conservation, and latterly with English Heritage (Historic England), where she worked both with historic buildings and areas; then ran the Historic Places team in the South East. Engaging communities in understanding the significance of the historic environment was a major focus of this work. Currently, she works as a consultant to the public and private sector for planning and historic environment issues, including casework for Historic England; historic buildings advice; conservation area work, and neighbourhood planning.

She has held a number of positions in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and is currently Vice-Chair. In this role she focuses on facilitating communities to manage their own historic environment. She has a number of publications on this subject and lectures on it and related topics.

Andrew Dawes

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience as an architect, working on projects across the Netherlands, Germany and UK.

He worked for Claus en Kaan and Herman Hertzberger in the Netherlands before establishing his practice ZODA Architects, working in both Amsterdam and London. Andrew has extensive architectural and urban design experience delivering projects of all scales and in numerous sectors, including housing, offices, public buildings and bridges. He has an in-depth knowledge of consensus-based decision making (the polder model) from his work in the Netherlands, which has given him a unique approach to collaborative design and successful stakeholder engagement. Using his experience with continental system building, he is developing low-cost innovative and intelligent housing design, introducing the conceptual clarity and economy of Dutch design to the UK. Alongside his practice work, Andrew has taught architecture at the Technical University in Delft and at London South Bank University.

He has written for the Architectural Review and Architects Journal, alongside presenting at architectural conferences. Andrew has sat on the Lelystad Design Review Panel and been a member of the Southwark Design Review Panel since 2009, contributing to significant reviews of projects across the Borough.


Sophia De Sousa

Sophia joined The Glass-House in June 2005, and is committed to the charity’s mission: to raise the standard of placemaking through

public participation and leadership in the design of the built environment.

As Chief Executive of The Glass-House, she ensures that community participation and leadership in planned development and regeneration is not a token gesture, but a valuable means of informing good, inclusive, sustainable design, that benefits local people and leads to long-term improvement of neighbourhoods. An advocate of cross sector partnerships, she believes them essential to the success of placemaking and community empowerment. She worked in Italy as a teacher/trainer and consultant to universities, and major museums in Tuscany. Sophia was co-founder and President of a small voluntary organisation in Florence that celebrated increasing cultural diversity. She returned to the UK in 2003.

A strong speaker, facilitator and enabler of community-led, participatory, collaborative, and co-design practice/research. Currently active in interdisciplinary, collaborative research within Higher Education (HE), and Visiting Fellow at the Open University. She is a passionate champion for playful environments, and creating accessible resources to support engagement with design and better collaborative processes.

Ian Deans

Ian, BA(HonsArch); DipArch Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); MA UrbDes, is an architect & urban designer with over

25 years’ experience, over half with Architecture PLB Ltd.

He has successfully delivered many award-winning projects, principally in the education and housing sectors. His urban design work has engaged him in numerous inner city mixed use schemes, often in sensitive conservation areas, involving public consultation. Ian’s skills in urban design have particular relevance to residential and educational projects. Both require the ability to create designs that foster the development of a community, with a particular sensitivity for sense of place.

All his projects are united in a concern for both internal and external space, exploiting the possibilities of the spaces between buildings to create additional, shared areas that add value and foster community ownership. Recently he has produced papers and articles on the ageing population with the Housing Forum and New London Architecture Magazine. He sits on several design panels, including the South East Regional Design Panel, and is a qualified Building for Life (BfL) Assessor.

Neil Deely

Neil is an architect and founding partner of Metropolitan Workshop LLP, a design led architecture and urbanism practice.

He oversees the practice’s design work and his expertise lies in major residential-led mixed-use projects, and buildings in sensitive urban locations, such as Durham, Westminster and Cambridge. He has also led urban design commissions for Oslo, Bergen and Dublin City Councils. Neil’s experience covers varied building typologies, but he is particularly interested in solutions to meet the current housing shortage. He guided the practice’s research into the evolving needs of the UK’s private rented sector, alongside David Prichard and Sir Richard MacCormac, to produce a competition-winning entry for the Wates/Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Private Rented Sector Competition.

A member of CABE’s National Design Review Panel since 2007, he is also chair of London Borough of Newham’s Design Review Panel (DRP), and member of the London Legacy Development Corporation’s DRP. He was also London Borough of Wandsworth’s representative on the CABE DRP for the US Embassy, Nine Elms. Since 2009 Neil has been a design adviser to Urban Design London’s Design Surgery Panel. He is an accredited Building for Life Assessor and regular contributor to the architectural press.


John Devlin

John is an architect and urban designer with over 35 years’ experience of delivering major projects and regeneration

initiatives across the UK, in both public and private sectors.

He has also acted as a project manager and commissioning client. John is particularly identified with the multi-award winning arts-led urban regeneration of Gateshead Quays. He recently formed John Devlin Consulting Limited to offer a range of services to public and private sector clients, bringing a creative, fresh and lateral approach to problem solving; to achieve desired outcomes in innovative, robust and sustainable ways, including: Development and Regeneration Advice; Arts-led Urban Regeneration; Major Projects and Project Management and Visioning.

He was heavily involved in delivering the successful European Union (EU) Interreg3b: “Waterfront Communities Project” – a 3 year study into best practice in waterfront regeneration. John is Immediate Past Vice-President (Membership) of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and chaired RIBA’s Nations and Regions Committee, and Client Service Panel. He is currently Chairman of the North East Design Review Panel.

Anne Diack

Anne is currently Director of Engaging Places at Open City, a national programme to promote built environment education (ending

May 2012). She was Head of Education at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), Director of Research, Media and Communications for the Department of Education’s Innovation Unit, Research Manager for BBC Education Policy, prize-winning BBC Academic Executive Producer for the Open University, Education Researcher; Teacher Trainer and Teacher. She holds degrees from Nottingham and London Universities. A Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for “achievement in education and services to innovation”, Anne has held a public appointment on the National Education Research Forum, sat on many high-level steering committees, and is a member of many professional bodies including the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

She has worked on national education projects for 20 years, covering Built Environment Education, Literacy, Maths and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), worked at the heart of national and local policy-making, chaired large/small meetings, filmed people from all sectors across the UK and globally, coached people on how to present themselves well on camera; conducted research; trained teachers; and taught children/young people.

Marc Dix

Marc is director of LT Studio Landscape Architects and leads the team with more than 20 years’ experience.

He has worked on a wide range of projects from public realm and educational facilities, to residential and commercial schemes. After working in London for Townshend Landscape Architects and Grant Associates in Bath, Marc relocated to Asia where he worked for Cicada in Singapore, leading a landscape team working on projects in China, Vietnam and Singapore. Marc is a lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath, Architecture Department and tutor at the University of Gloucestershire. He is a member of the Bristol Urban Design Review Panel (DRP) and the Somerset and Devon DRP. Marc is currently leading the LT Studio team on a number of interesting projects.

Key projects include: Borough High Street for Kings College London, Torquay Waterfront for Harbour Hotels, Bristol Harbourside for Crest Nicholson Regeneration, the regeneration of Brighton Dome for Brighton Dome and Brighton Festivals Ltd., and Windsor Castle for the Royal Household.


Nick Dixon

Nick is a development planner and urban designer with 20 years’ experience at the intersection of development planning,

regeneration, transport and urban design. He is currently Director at WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff leading a development infrastructure initiative seeking ongoing design quality improvement in strategic land development and regeneration projects.

Nick maintains an active project portfolio, including directing street planning and design input to award-winning strategic land development sites, such as Filton Airfield and Bristol and Bath Science Park. He also regularly leads multi-disciplinary teams delivering public sector area regeneration strategies. His early career was as Head of Integrated Transport at Wiltshire Council which led to a passion for urban design and an ongoing belief that municipal engineers, working in collaboration with urban design professionals, hold the key to improving design quality in most urban areas. Legacy included a programme of city and market town public realm improvements across the county, delivered by cross-disciplinary engineering and urban design teams.

Nick has spent the last 15 years in consultancy, continuing to blur the boundaries between technical disciplines, in favour of more effective project delivery.

Paul Dodd

Paul is an urban designer and chartered landscape architect with over 20 years experience within private practice and local

government. He has prepared design driven masterplans, planning studies, design codes and planning applications for development projects and is an accomplished public space designer, preparing public realm strategies for several UK cities.

Paul is an active Design Council Cabe Built Environment Expert, and regular design review panel member for Design South East, the London Borough of Merton and Urban Design London. He has written best practice guidance and was lead author of the ‘Slow Streets Source Book’, published by Urban Design London, where he currently leads the streetscape training programme. Following an early career at Richards Moorehead, Laing and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, specialising in land reclamation and green infrastructure design. Paul led the urban design team at Hyder Consulting in London.

Moving to Urban Initiatives in 2003 as a Senior Associate, he prepared innovative planning and urban design frameworks. Paul established Outdesign in 2011, an independent design practice providing urban design consultancy services. Central to the consultancies approach is collaborative public engagement through place audits and design workshops.

David Dropkin

For more than 20 years David has delivered strategic inclusive design consultancy to master planning and architectural teams.

As a Consultant member of the National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC), he provides a range of access consultancy services across business sectors for new and existing developments, including design appraisal, technical guidance and the development of access strategy and policy, with current projects including Battersea Power Station and Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium. He has a keen interest in challenging perceptions about disability, and believes in delivering projects that embrace seamless provision for disabled and non-disabled people alike. In developing ‘Up at the O2‘ (a 52m high climb over the top of the O2) he worked closely with the design and operations team, as well as a dedicated access forum to navigate duties owed under the Equality Act, balancing them with delivering a breath-taking challenging, climbing experience.

David is co-author of the Metric Handbook chapter on access and inclusion and also contributed to the Olympic Delivery Authority Inclusive Design Standards and sat on the working party to revise the London Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG): Accessible London. He supports the Civic Trust as a universal design assessor.


Jayne Earnscliffe

As director of leading, disabled-led access design company Making Access Work, Jayne has contributed to the success of numerous,

significant high-profile arts, heritage, public realm and housing projects over 25 years.

Highlights include London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)/St Luke’s, winner of three access awards; Civic Trust Universal Access award-winning Queen Elizabeth (QE2) Olympic Park Tumbling Bay Playground; and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize-winning Everyman Theatre, for its “unparalled levels of accessibility.” Jayne has a unique specialism in inclusive exhibition design with a vast client portfolio that includes the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Futureplan; Stonehenge Visitor Centre; and King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, Dhahran. At Arts Council England Jayne helped embed high standards of accessibility in lottery-funded capital projects as assessor/special monitor, and author of access guidelines/policies. As Lifetime Homes advisor, Jayne has extensive experience of masterplanning and complex planning negotiations and is currently engaged on several major residential developments, including Chelsea Barracks. Passionate about inclusive design, her pragmatic, non-prescriptive approach places people at the heart of the design process.

She enjoys working with architects and designers to achieve creative solutions that reflect the diverse needs of an ageing population and is particularly interested in Design for Dementia.

Nick Edwards

Nick is an architectural educator and change driver with 20 years’ experience creating innovative community engagement and

participation opportunities, encouraging greater understanding of architecture, regeneration, planning, placemaking, active citizenship and sustainability.

He trained as an architect and has spent most of his career working in formal and informal education, demystifying built environment processes, changing perceptions and advocating the role communities can play in shaping and caring for their neighbourhoods. His achievements include: co-founding Architecture Centre Fundamental Architectural Inclusion, which led the field in youth engagement in the built environment through its seminal programmes the Architecture Crew: Britain’s first youth architecture forum, and the Legacy Youth Panel which facilitated young people’s response to the Legacy Master Planning Framework for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Nick’s recent projects include East London In Flux, regeneration awareness adult education programme, with Birkbeck, University of London and ExplorE20 sustainable community development initiatives with East Village residents for Get Living London and Triathlon Homes. Nick also delivers expert tours through Starting Point and Architectours Barcelona, and is a visiting lecturer.

Tony Edwards

Tony trained and practised first as an architect before qualifying as a landscape architect, a profession he has since pursued over a

30 year career. He is a director of Place Design and Planning, the landscape architecture and urban design practice he set up 10 years ago.

Tony has been closely involved in the master planning and ongoing development of the award-winning, 180 acres GreenPark Reading since the 1990s, and has appeared as an expert witness at over 25 public inquiries. Formerly a member of CABE’s National Design Review Panel, he is currently a member of the Merton Design Review Panel. His joint qualifications have made him particularly aware of development and master planning issues and means he can offer an informed view on developments based on both training and experience. Landscape schemes in particular need some experience of time and management to ensure they deliver on their initial design aspirations.

Tony has worked on land reclamation, mineral workings, new and refurbished housing projects, business parks and commercial developments, educational buildings and public realm schemes.

His award winning practice is currently engaged in a range of diverse development work across a number of sectors.


Joanna Eley

Joanna’s prime focus is on the user’s experience in the built environment, and on benefits obtained from expert advice during the earliest

stages of a project. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, prior to training as an architect in the USA/London.

She takes a rounded view of clients’ needs, building users and society, concentrating on how people use buildings, and the client role in commissioning/participating in construction projects. She enables clients/users to obtain the greatest support/satisfaction from their environment, and promotes effective communication processes between clients/project stakeholders, including the design team.

Joanna worked as a consultant with leading professionals in the construction process, such as DEGW, David Langdon Consultancy and William Bordass Associates. A Director at Alexi Marmot Associates (AMA) since 1989. AMA specialises in providing evidence needed to ensure users get better buildings. Working with Cabe and others, she has reviewed the impact of many different professional interventions to improve design outcomes. Joanna’s work covers all stages, from pre-project though briefing, design, fit-out and use, including post occupancy evaluations. She is a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Client Adviser, working to clearly define their services; and a Higher Education Design Quality Forum (HEDQF) facilitator.

Alex Ely

Alex is a leading authority on urban design and housing.

Architect, planner and author of the Mayor of London’s

Housing Design Guide, and numerous research/best practice publications for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), he combines planning and policy experience with a passion for good design. Formerly Head of Sustainable Communities at CABE, he continues to advise Government on built environment policy. Alex is the founder of Mæ and has been responsible for a wide range of award winning schemes from masterplans to housing projects, health care and cultural buildings. Since its inception, the practice has become recognised as one of the UK’s leading design practices.

Alex is a member of the Greater London Authority’s Design Panel, the London Legacy’s Development Corporation’s Quality Review Panel, and the Royal Institute of British Architects Housing Policy Group. A graduate from the Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association, he continues to engage in academia, lecturing internationally on design and policy.

Mike Entwisle

Mike is a building environmental design engineer with a background in science research.

Passionate about improving and optimising building environmental performance, he has developed exceptional skills in designing buildings, which both delight users, but also deliver sustainable performance in the real world. Mike is a Partner at BuroHappold Engineering, where he is Director for the Education Sector, embracing projects across schools, colleges and universities globally. This gives him a unique insight into global trends in the sector, and how the built environment can contribute to successful development and education of the next generations’ leaders. He is especially proud of his role leading the engineering input on the Forum at the University of Exeter, and the first Building Schools for the Future projects in Bristol.

A board member of the Higher Education Design Quality Forum and a leading member of the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE) Schools design group. He contributed to the UK Government’s Zero Carbon Schools Task Force and drafted the CABE design criteria for assessment of school designs. Member of the Engineering and Innovation External Advisory Board at the Open University, he helps them formulate their approach to these important fields in fast changing subject areas.


Jo Evans

Jo is a planner by background with over 20 years’ experience in conservation in the private and public sector.

She is an Associate Director at RPS CgMs in the Historic Buildings team. CgMs acts for a wide range of private and public sector organisations and advises on all aspects of historic environment planning policy and practice. Before joining CgMs, Jo was a conservation officer at a number of planning authorities in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. She has experience in all aspects of building and area conservation, including development appraisals; townscape assessments; conservation area reviews and local lists; urban design; enforcement and listed building prosecutions, and numerous public inquiries and hearings. Jo has been a full Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1989 and a full Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) since 1997, having been a former member of the Association of Conservation Officers since 1989.

Jo is the immediate past Chair of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), and is currently Secretary of the IHBC. Prior to this she was the Membership Secretary of the IHBC and the Chair of the Institute’s Membership and Ethics Committee.

Meredith Evans

Meredith trained as an architect and is a qualified Urban Designer and Planner, working in the field of planning and urban design for over 35

years in a number of urban authorities.

He is now a planning and urban design consultant, and has managed related areas of highways, property, economic development and regeneration. He was Assistant Director for City Development at Leicester City Council for a number of years before joining Telford and Wrekin Council as Corporate Director, Environment and Regeneration. At Telford, Meredith leads the Council’s partnership working with the Homes and Communities Agency.

Key strategic projects are the Telford Millenium Community; Lawley Sustainable Urban Extension; Lightmoor Urban Village; Woodside regeneration (former New Town estate), and the redevelopment of the Town Centre. Other roles include: member of the Housing Design Awards judging panel; member and former chair of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Urban Design Network; and member of the MADE design panel.

Steph Everett

Steph is a Chartered Planner with over fifteen years’ experience in shaping towns and cities through spatial planning, design and

delivery advice to both the public and private sectors.

Drawing upon diverse skills in planning, transport, community engagement, socio-economic regeneration and sustainability, Steph enjoys working with others to tackle the range of complex issues faced within the built environment. She specialises in large multi-disciplinary projects and has led the preparation and delivery of a range of spatial plans, masterplans and strategies for neighbourhoods and town centres; including the South Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework: ‘Living City’, and the delivery strategy for Gateshead Town Centre: ‘Fit for a City’.

Steph has a keen interest in designing for inclusivity, sustainability and healthy living; reinforcing these principles through her work in the design and function of developments, streets and public spaces. Within her current role at Trafford Housing Trust, she is tasked with shaping the design and delivery of new homes for both affordable rent and home ownership, and is working with Trafford’s Young Advisors to design future homes for young people. Steph has also volunteered for the ConstructionSkills initiative.


Jim Eyre

Jim is a Partner/Director of WilkinsonEyre since 1987, responsible for managing the practice’s transportation,

bridge and infrastructure projects, and cultural projects.

His work includes (cultural): the Museum of London, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, and the Weston Library in Oxford; (commercial): Battersea Power Station redevelopment, the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize winning Guangzhou International Finance Center; the award winning Stratford Market Depot and Stratford Regional Station projects.

With numerous competition winning concepts in the practice’s bridge portfolio, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire, 2003 for services to architecture, and Honorary Doctor of Laws at Liverpool University (2009). Publications include: ‘The Architecture of Bridge Design’, and: ‘Exploring Boundaries’ monograph. Visiting tutor at Illinois Institute of Technology, USA (1997-1998); Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003-2004). International exhibits include the Venice Biennale (2004). President of the Architectural Association (2007-2009), now Chair of their Foundation. Appointed to the expert panel for the Farrell Review, also an expert panellist on the Liveable Cities initiative. Appointed as Commissioner to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, in 2014; awarded The Bodley Medal (2015).

Helen Farrar

Helen is an established freelance enabler; a landscape architect by profession with 28 years’ expertise in renaissance,

placemaking, communities and organisational development. Based in Yorkshire and Humber, Helen has worked at national, regional and local levels; contributing at a senior level, particularly with the public and voluntary sectors.

She was Urban Renaissance Manager at Yorkshire Forward (1999-2004), playing a key role in developing the region’s distinct Renaissance Towns and Centre of Excellence programmes. She is an expert in the establishment of design review panels, having developed and evaluated a number of local and regional panels; and a specialist in engagement, facilitation, training and enabling.

Helen’s key positions held include CABE Regional Representative in Yorkshire and Humber (2002-2010); CABE Space Enabler (03-12); Transform South Yorkshire Enabler (2010-11); Yorkshire Forward Renaissance Advisor (2010-12). Other past roles include Chair of the Accreditation Review Group and tutor/reviewer for Landscape courses at Leeds Metropolitan University; Director and Interim Executive Director of Architecture Centre, ‘Arc’; Development/Community Investment Manager at English Partnerships; senior manager and landscape architect at Groundwork Wakefield. Helen has been a freelance enabler and retained associate for numerous organisations since 2004; and a director of social enterprise Baraka Foundation since 2008.

Noel Farrer

Noel is a landscape architect and urban designer who has run his own award winning practice for 19 years.

He designs for clients including Great Portland Estates, Cathedral Group, Peabody Trust, and the public sector on projects ranging from residential, education, parks and public realm. President of the Landscape Institute, where he campaigns for landscape led placemaking. He sits on the government’s design advisory panel for housing. Noel is a regular columnist and visiting lecturer on landscape architecture.


Alice Ferguson

Alice is the Director of Playing Out Community Integrated Care a not-for-profit organisation that started life as a

resident-led project, and has become the main source of support and inspiration for a national grassroots movement for street play. As well as leading the organisation and speaking at high-profile events, Alice has managed an action-research project to enable resident-led ‘playing out’ in tower-block estates, and is currently working closely with various housing associations in the South West and South East to develop play-friendly communities.

Alice is currently on the project board for Bristol Child-Friendly City, alongside the Architecture Centre, Room 13 and the University of Bristol. Her particular area of interest is exploring how design and social factors combine to enable child and play-friendly public spaces, residential streets and estates.

Paul Finch

Paul is programme director of the World Architecture Festival and editorial director of the Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal.

After graduating in history at Selwyn College, Cambridge (1971), he joined a specialist publishing company, and was subsequently deputy editor of Estates Times: now Property Week (1976-1983); editor, Building Design (1983-94); editor, Architects’ Journal (1994-1999); and editor, The Architectural Review (2005-2009). A founding commissioner, then deputy chair at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE: 1999-2005), and later Chair (2009 – 2014) and also chaired the CABE Olympic Design Review panel (2005-2012).

Paul has been co-editor, Planning in London since 1992. He became Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1994; was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Westminster in 2004; and an honorary fellowship by University College London in 2006. He was granted honorary membership of the Architectural Association in 2014, and awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to architecture in 2002.

Kathryn Firth

Kathryn is an architect and urban designer with over 25 years of experience. She is Director of Development/Masterplanning and

Urban Design at Publica.

Prior to this Kathryn was the Chief of Design at the London Legacy Development Corporation. She has led International masterplanning and urban regeneration projects that range from those in sensitive heritage contexts, such as Covent Garden, to regeneration projects on former industrial sites in complex inner city environments, such as Le Parc des Portes de Paris. Kathryn has ongoing involvement in topical research including a study of the spatial and social dynamics of high streets, the New London Vernacular, and urban density and neighbourhood perception. She is a member of the Mayor’s Design Advisory Group, the New London Sounding Board, and The London Society Executive Committee. Kathryn holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Kathryn ran the MSc City Design and Social Science at the London School of Economic Cities Programme for 6 years, and was a visiting lecturer at the Housing and Urbanism unit at the Architecture Association.

She is currently an External Examiner and supervisor at Liverpool John Moores University and Cambridge University.


Karl Fitzgerald

Karl [Master of Studies (MSt), Batchelor of Engineering (BEng), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Member of Institute of

Engineering (MICE)] is a Chartered Civil Engineer with particular focus on transport planning and masterplanning for large scale development projects.

With over 25 years’ experience in consultancy and the public sector, he has been responsible for major transport planning and masterplan projects, and design of public transport and infrastructure. Karl coordinates strategic projects for the Advisory Team for Large Applications and acts as an advisor to a range of public and private sector groups engaged in the development process. A particular focus is the planning for large scale mixed use developments, and new communities. He has advised government departments on programmes such as Public Sector Land and Large Scale infrastructure Funding and Housing Zones. Previously he was responsible for technical input to major initiatives such as the new town of Northstowe and the Hospital Sites Programme for the Homes and Communities Agency.

Karl is an enthusiastic advocate for good design and for an interdisciplinary approach to engaging professional skills and disciplines. He is also a trained mediator and experienced in facilitating stakeholder events and negotiation processes.

Julie Fleck

Julie worked as a local authority town planner for 9 years before specialising in access for disabled people as the Corporation of

London’s Access Officer. Julie then became Principal Access Adviser at the Greater London Authority (GLA).

Julie developed the London Plan policies on inclusive design and wrote the Supplementary Planning Guidance ‘Accessible London’. Julie provided technical access advice on strategic planning applications referred to the Mayor and contributed to the development of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s award winning Inclusive Design Strategy and Standards. In 2012 she was seconded to the GLA’s London 2012 Unit as Paralympic Adviser and undertook various projects to make London ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Julie is currently on secondment to Government leading a Paralympic Legacy project aimed at stimulating a systematic change in the way built environment professionals are taught inclusive design – the Built Environment Professional Education Project.

Julie is a member of the British Standards Institution Committee B/559 (responsible for developing standards on access for disabled people to buildings), the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Access Association and was awarded the OBE in 2004 for services to disabled people.

Andy Foster

Andy trained as both architect and structural engineer and was initially involved in the design of high profile, complex buildings.

He has mainly UK based project experience, with a five year posting to Hong Kong. As a Director of Ove Arup & Partners (1999), he led a 100 person strong building design group responsible for a diverse portfolio.

A member of the Technical Executive: a six person team advising the Arup Board on design and technical issues worldwide, his key contribution to the panel was in design education focused on ensuring design and technical excellence. Andy won the inaugural Sir Jack Zunz scholarship (2000), with a leadership programme at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2004, he returned to Chester and set up in practice to experience design at a local scale. Recent interests include small-scale sustainable design and historic building conservation.

He sits on the advisory Board of the Built Environment Innovation Centre at Imperial College, London; member of the West Midlands Design Review Panel (MADE); and a Design Enabler for the North West Design Review:Places Matter. President of the Cheshire Society of Architects, he also sits on the Royal Institute of British Architects Small Practice Committee.


Sarah Foster

Sarah is a chartered town planner with 14 years’ experience in both public and private sectors.

She has worked in urban and rural environments, and been involved with developments on a wide range of scales, from small householder and agricultural developments to major regeneration schemes. Sarah is currently Projects Manager for the development company Coverland UK Ltd. Previously, Planning Manager for the Peak District National Park Authority, she has also worked for Turley, Manchester City Council, and Austin-Smith:Lord Architects. Sarah was the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Young Planner of the Year (2010), and Chair of the RTPI North West region (2008 – 2010). She was awarded the RTPI Planning Summer School’s Travel Scholarship (2005), and travelled to New South Wales to study the Australian system of planning obligations.

Sarah has been an active volunteer for Planning Aid, specialising in community training events in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. She has acted as an external examiner for the University of Nottingham’s Department of Architecture and the Built Environment and, on a more informal basis, as an external assessor for the University of Manchester’s School of Planning & Landscape.

Beatrice Fraenkel

Beatrice is an industrial designer and ergonomist with over 25 years’ experience working in and across both private/public

sectors, helping clients determine design briefs to deliver design quality, drive down costs and add land/rental value, all based on determining user needs.

She is an expert in working with a range of complex stakeholders, including local communities, clients and architects, to achieve beneficial and cost effective results for everyone. Beatrice was Liverpool City Design Champion for ten years, greatly supported by the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment, who gave her an award. She helped deliver the L1 shopping centre; chaired the Ropewalks Partnership which redeveloped the historic heart of Liverpool, using quality of design to drive up value and attract inward investment, and as Chair of Renew North West (NW) she set up ‘Places Matter’, the Design review panel for the North West.

She sat on the National Health Service (NHS) Estates Board and was given an award for her work as a NHS Design Champion. Beatrice remains a NHS Design Champion, currently chairing a Design Board of NHS staff, service users and managers to ensure that users of buildings and spaces are at the heart of all design.

Susan Francis

Susan is Programme Director for Architects for Health (AfH), a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Linked Society. AfH has 500

members and delivers an impressive programme of events, study tours and student awards to design professionals and clients in the healthcare sector.

As Special Advisor for Health at CABE, Susan worked closely with the Department of Health on Built Environment policy development. Responsibilities included leading/chairing the National Health Service (NHS) Design Review Programme; directing research and policy development on community hospitals and sustainable design; devising and developing the Future Health Initiative across CABE, that demonstrated how design can help deliver sustainable places for health and wellbeing. Previously, she led the Future Healthcare Network (FHN) at the NHS Confederation, where she was architectural advisor in a multi-disciplinary team. FHN facilitated a learning network for over 80 NHS Trusts, engaged in major capital developments for hospital, primary care and mental health services, part of the major investment programme for the NHS.

A qualified architect, Susan has worked in practice and academia developing research, publications and post graduate training for over 20 years. She recently presented at International conferences in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and India, and regularly presents in the UK.


Daisy Froud

Daisy is co-founder of multi-disciplinary architecture practice AOC (2003), where she leads the firm’s participation arm. With 14 years’

experience in stakeholder engagement and collaborative planning, Daisy specialises in devising and implementing tools and strategies that allow multiple voices to meaningfully contribute to design and decision-making processes. An experienced facilitator, she helps diverse groups find common ground and shared priorities in situations where policy constraints/lack of resources, pose challenges. A qualified translator, Daisy has a First in Languages from Cambridge University, a Master of Arts (MA) with Distinction in Cultural Memory, and teaches on the theory and practice of urban change at The Bartlett.

She has just completed a visiting professorship at Yale, running a seminar course on participatory architecture. Daisy is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism; an accredited Building For Life assessor; a member of the London Borough of Newham Design Review Panel; and an enabler for both The Glasshouse and Design Council Cabe, where she is involved with the ‘neighbourhood planning frontrunners’. Prior to founding AOC, Daisy worked for regeneration bodies Central London Partnership and Groundwork, and for five years devised and delivered design-awareness training for local authority councillors at architecture centre Open House.

Sandra Fryer

Sandra has more than 20 years’ planning, regeneration and sustainable development, director level experience, mainly in the public

sector and for 10 years running her own business, providing consultancy and interim management.

Sandra’s recent experience is as an Assistant Director leading regeneration in a Waltham Forest, London. She set up and led negotiations on the Borough’s Housing Zone for 2,500 new homes in quality, mixed use development in the Lea Valley, and including a new Creative Industries Quarter. Sandra also led the delivery of new housing development in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire negotiating 4,000 new homes in two developments around Wantage, including planned infrastructure, parish and town council engagement and design review. As a trustee of the Town and Country Planning Association (TPCA), Sandra has worked with government and policy makers to promote new Garden Cities and housing solutions fit for the 21st Century.

Sandra contributed to the TCPA’s recent urban policy report. Passionate about achieving well planned, new development in partnership with key stakeholders, she is also a trustee of the Bristol Jazz Festival, and Vice-Chair of Governors at Cotham School, where she led negotiations on school development and a hostile village green application.

Tony Fullwood

Tony is a chartered town planner with extensive local authority experience in all aspects of town planning, including local plans,

development control, delivering high quality designs and public realm, most recently as Head of Service and Corporate Manager at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.

His experience includes planning and implementing major projects, such as significant urban extensions; town centres; urban regeneration; and conserving and enhancing areas of architectural and landscape heritage. With professional experience in various locations, ranging from cities, town centres to small neighbourhoods and villages, Tony has been responsible for the preparation of a numerous local plans and supplementary planning documents.

He set up Tony Fullwood Associates (June 2006), specialising in planning policy, high-quality urban design and sustainable solutions, and is engaged in various public /private sector planning and development projects. Advisor and mentor to numerous parish councils, as they develop their frontrunner neighbourhood plans. A qualified urban designer with a keen interest in achieving high quality design, Tony has been a CABE Space Enabler since 2006, facilitating local authorities, and contributing to national events/publications.


Julie Futcher

Julie is an architect with interests in sustainable urban design and the role of buildings in modifying the climates of neighbouring

buildings and the outdoors.

She completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the College of Engineering and Architecture, University College Dublin, on the contributions of buildings and of urban form to the urban climate. Her research is multi-disciplinary in its approach, drawing on the expertise of architects, engineers, geographers and climatologists. Julie applies her expertise to the study of the impacts of tall buildings in cities, and has developed novel approaches to link urban design with the experiences of pedestrians and urban dwellers. She is an independent consultant on applied urban climatology and co-founder of Urban Generation, an urban design studio concerned with the public realm.

Julie has actively participated with various stakeholders on scientific teams, concerned with numerous aspects of urban refurbishment and regeneration. These experiences, along with those gained as an architect have given her a multi-disciplinary approach essential for sustainable urban development. Julie has a great deal of experience in the urban realm, and is currently developing a planning framework to assess ‘form’ driven micro-climate effects that will guide urban development in a climate sensitive manner.

Jason Gardner

Following over 17 years experience as a Mechanical Engineer, working as part of multidisciplinary design teams on various national and

international projects, Jason now leads the Environmental, Sustainability and Alternative Technologies group in the Leeds, Dublin, Manchester and Birmingham offices.

In this capacity he is regularly involved with projects as a sustainability consultant, providing guidance on building physics, energy infrastructure low carbon technologies, environmental impact, and as a BREEAM Assessor. During his post graduate study at the University of Cambridge Jason carried out an in depth research project into assessing the environmental performance of buildings.

Magda Gay

Magda works as an independent consultant on disability, access and inclusion. She has a Masters Degree in Disability Studies and

Social Policy. With more than thirty years’ experience in the public, commercial and voluntary sectors working with disabled children, young people, adults and those who live or work with them, Magda has a unique understanding of the human impact when environmental barriers to access and inclusion have not been fully considered. She worked with staff from The British Council, The Office of International Development and External Affairs and An Najah University, in the Palestinian Territories. Magda carried out research and analysed the results of her consultation to make recommendations for more inclusive practice at the university. Sensitively working with groups with diverse interests, she utilised accessible community and stakeholder consultation methods at High Green Development Trust, Sheffield, before writing the report and recommendations for the development of their multi-generational play space.

Magda provides advice and writes interactive training materials, checklists and e-learning to support the design and development of inclusive play equipment, services, settings and environments, publications and articles, for local authorities, community groups, voluntary and statutory organisations and outdoor play companies, including Inclusive Play’s inclusive play area assessment tool.


Christopher Gaylord

Christopher [Master of Architecture (M.Arch) - Harvard; Batchelor of Arts (BA) - (Princeton); Architects Registration Board

(ARB), Royal Institute of British Architects, America Institute of Architects (AIA) International Association] is an experienced architect, proficient in the design, delivery and auditing of many building types and masterplans.

He has worked with David Chipperfield Architects and I.M. Pei & Partners (New York), and directed leading architectural practices in the UK. Christopher has been an active enabler at the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment since 2005, enabling two major medical projects and conducting Post-Occupancy Evaluations on two completed schools. Latterly he has served on Design Council Cabe’s Health Building Steering Group and helped shape its Medical Built Environment Programme. He studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design, (Masters of Architecture, 1988) and Princeton (Bachelor of Arts in Architecture & Urban Design, 1981); currently co-teaches the Sustainable Tall Buildings Studio at Nottingham University; and has taught at Bath, the Architectural Association and Harvard.

Christopher has won competitions for new Masterplans and buildings, with numerous exhibitions/publications of work/interviews in the design press. He chaired the Design Excellence Awards when on the board of the American Institute of Architects UK chapter.

Bill Gething

Bill divides his time between his role as Professor of Architecture at the University of the West of England, and practicing as an

architect and sustainability consultant, building on his experience as a long-standing partner of the architectural and urban design practice of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. He also mentors the growing sustainability team at engineers Max Fordham and Partners.

An experienced designer of higher education facilities, offices and housing, he was responsible for numerous multi-award winning projects, including the New Environmental Office at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and the Icon housing development in Street, Somerset. Bill has particular expertise in adaptation of the built environment to the changing climate, retrofitting the existing building stock and narrowing the performance gap between design expectations and reality. Vice chair of BRE Global’s Governing Body and he was Sustainability Advisor to the President of the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) from 2002 - 2009, where he contributed to the development of RIBA’s Climate Change Guides.

He led the team that developed the Green Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work and subsequently contributed to the development of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013.

Tim Gill

Tim is an independent researcher, consultant and writer on children’s play and free time, with over 20 years’ relevant experience.

He was director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England) between 1997 and 2004, and was seconded to Whitehall in 2002 to lead the UK government’s first comprehensive review into children’s play.

Tim’s book, No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society was published in 2007, and in 2006-8 he co-authored the Greater London Authority’s planning guidance on children’s play and informal recreation. He is co-author of Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation Guide, an authoritative guide to safety in children’s play, and author of the Greater London Authority report Sowing the Seeds: Reconnecting London’s children with nature. Tim advised the London Legacy Development Company on the design of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and has carried out consultancies for the Forestry Commission, National Trust and Argent plc, amongst other clients.

He has advised political parties and think-tanks across the political spectrum. Tim writes for the mainstream media, trade and academic publications, appears regularly on radio and television, and is in global demand as a public speaker and workshop facilitator.


Julian Gitsham

Julian is an architect and urban designer who joined HASSELL as Principal and UK Practice Leader for Architecture in 2014.

He has been practicing for over 25 years and gained extensive experience in leadership positions at high profile, design-led practices. Prior to joining HASSELL, Julian was Managing Partner and Board member of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. He has led projects, including the University of Brighton Masterplan; Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in London; Broadcasting Place at Leeds Metropolitan University; masterplans for major UK and international cities; the National Cold War Museum; Portcullis House Parliamentary Building; and the visitor and interpretive centres at Jodrell Bank, the Centre of Astrophysics at Manchester University. International project experience includes: the National Library of Israel, Cultural District Waterfront project in Abu Dhabi, and a master plan and residential development in Cairo.

Julian’s skills and expertise have been developed through all stages of design in the delivery of award winning architecture and masterplanning projects that strive to achieve exemplary environments, exceed client expectations and produce dynamic, exciting and responsive architecture. He is currently a Places Matter North West Design Review Panel Member and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.

Stephen Gleave

Stephen is a Chartered Town Planner and recognised advocate for Urban Design excellence, with over 30 years’ professional

experience, receiving the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) North West Regional Leadership Award (2012).

Experienced in planning and delivering health and housing projects, and all aspects of masterplanning and town centre work. During the intense period of Private Finance Initiative Investment in the National Health Service (NHS) Estate, Stephen provided masterplanning advice to numerous major hospitals as they put in place their projects for development. He has worked extensively with Local Authorities and Regeneration Agencies across the UK, advising on masterplanning and town centre strategies. Work with Tameside Council was particularly noteworthy and longstanding. As Managing Director, then Chairman of a successful multidisciplinary design practice, Stephen has also held the following positions: RTPI Chair Urban Design Network; Deputy Chair Manchester Conservation and Design Panel; NHS Design Advisory Group member; HS2 Ambassador and first generation CABE Enabler. He has also held close associations with urban design and town planning schools across the UK.

Louise Goodison

Louise is an architect specialising in heritage, urban development and education and is Director of Cazenove Architects, a practice

focusing on public and community development.

She is a History graduate from York University and a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Conservation architect, qualifying at the Bartlett (1990). Louise has chaired/contributed to many design reviews in London and south east England. A member of the South East Design Panel and Chair of the Hackney Design Review Panel, she has run stakeholder workshops in conservation areas for the Planning inspectorate, and for housing design committee workshops. On the Steering Committee for Hackney Town Centre, she founded and run the Clapton Festival since 2011. Louise is a RIBA Client Design Advisor and is a specialist in community and education architecture. She led the Clinical Document Architecture team Primary Capital programme in Birmingham (2007-2010) and developed a new Programme Strategy for School Environments (2011).

Louise’s projects have won and been shortlisted for local/national design awards: CivicTrust, RIBA; Local Authority; The Housing Awards; Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre iCAN awards, British Council for School environments Awards. She has led successful campaigns regarding neighbourhood development in London Fields East, Clarence Mews, Salford and central Hackney.


Vincent Goodstadt

Vincent has worked for various bodies across the UK, at all scales within both public and private sectors. He is currently an

independent advisor, supporting organisations trying to raise the quality of life in our communities through better design and more creative planning.

Vincent advises various local/neighbourhood bodies on the integration of design considerations into their planning decisions; supports the training programme of Urban Design London, and the London based charettes of the Design Penn postgraduate programme. He is co-author of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI): ‘New Vision for Planning’ and: ‘The Charter of European Planning,’ which provides a basis for planning professions in the UK and Europe, respectively.

Part of the European Environment Agency initiative on the quality of life in Europe’s towns and cities, Vincent is a past RTPI President. Other formal roles include: Honorary Professor (University of Manchester), Vice-president of the Town and Country Planning Association; Executive member of the European Council of Spatial Planners; the network of European metropolitan Regions and Areas and editorial board of Planning Theory and Practice.

Andy Graham

Andy is an Urban Designer and Heritage professional with over 14 years’ professional experience within the built environment in

the UK and abroad. His experience ranges from design review and buildings at risk, to expert planning witness and community outreach.

His passions lie in the creation of liveable, sustainable and healthy places for people of all ages, abilities and cultures. Andy uses his professional background alongside his entrepreneurial attitude to achieve a holistic approach to sustainable urbanism. His experience in both public/private sectors enables him to see the ‘bigger picture’ and this is reflected in his project: TheUrbanGlow, which has seen him spreading the message of good urbanism through digital media and online tutorials. He has assisted the National Health Service in their liaison with Local Authorities on planning healthier cities, and has facilitated and led several workshops and events for all ages, with the intention of better engaging people with their environment.

A creative thinker who believes context and robust analysis are the key to successful development, Andy is an affiliate member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and a member of the Society of Authors and he continues to challenge and pursue good places for people.

Marcus Grant

Marcus is an urban designer and Chartered Landscape Architect. Starting practice in 1986, he worked in consultancy on rural

and urban projects for a broad range of clients. Marcus began specialising in sustainable development and population health by joining a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in 1996, situated in an academic faculty of the built environment.

Working with built environment professionals in cities both in the UK and across Europe, he specialises in the role of city-region spatial frameworks; urban design and neighbourhood intervention; and biodiversity to better support healthy lifestyles and reduce health inequalities. He has worked extensively with Bristol City Council, developing new tools to engage communities with this agenda. Working with Public Health England and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, he examined urban food access and growing; and evidence based policy, in relation to health.

In 2015 he was asked by WHO to update their European Age-Friendly City guidelines. Marcus was a founding member of the Scientific Board for the Public Health Research programme. This programme can evaluate the health impact of built environment interventions. He is an expert advisor to WHO and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.


Susan Green

Susan is Director of Stonebridge Urban Enterprises Limited, a specialist housing, planning & regeneration consultancy.

With over twenty five years experience in the development industry, and twelve years in senior management, she was formerly Director of Deeley Group in the Midlands, and Regional Manager of Lowry Homes in the North West. A graduate of the University of Manchester, qualified with Bachelor of Arts (Honours)in Town & Country Planning and Bachelor of Planning degrees. A member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1991. She is a member of MADE’s Expert Panel.

Currently a post-graduate student at the University of Birmingham studying a Master of Arts degree in Heritage Management.

Julie Greer

Julie is an urban designer, planner and heritage consultant with experience gained in Toronto, Canada and the UK.

In 2006 she set up Greer Pritchard Planning Consultancy and is currently leading on the refurbishment of a Grade II* listed building, and several major mixed use developments across London. She has held planning positions with Barnet, Wandsworth, the City of Westminster and Southwark Council, where she established and managed the Design and Conservation team, and set up London’s first Design Review Panel. Whilst at Southwark, Julie led the design response for major redevelopments including the Shard; Neo Bankside; Tate Modern Extension; Bankside123; and the Elephant and Castle Masterplan, establishing a reputation as a planner who raised the ‘design bar’. Principal Design Advisor for the Olympic Delivery Authority, where she was responsible for the Evolution Phase of the Legacy Masterplan as well as the Olympic Village and provided specialist advice to the Planning Decisions Team.

Julie has held positions on the Commission for Sustainable London 2012, where she reviewed the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s Masterplan, design codes and planning applications. She is a panel member for Southwark’s and Wandworth’s Design Review Panels and currently advises London’s Skyline Campaign.

Ian Greggor

Ian began his career on the National Health Service (NHS) General Management Training Scheme, spending twelve years in healthcare

management, in roles including running a private hospital; a Directorate manager, and a contracts manager,during the time of GP Fundholding.

Ian moved into the wider management consultancy field in 2001, becoming involved in service reviews: business cases; design development; change management; management and team development; quality and strategy. In recent years he has acted as programme manager, project director/key adviser on numerous Private Finance Initiatives; Living Lives Lifting People; Procure 21 and education projects; in addition to providing consultancy advice on business transformation; integration and organisational development commissions. Experienced in supporting the design process in acute, community, mental health and primary sectors, also interested in the opportunities offered by the application of Information and Communications Technology to enhance service quality and improve access.

Ian now works for Community Health Partnerships, part of the Department of Health, as a Strategic Advisor to the NHS in the East Midlands and East of England. His role includes supporting commissioners and providers in developing asset strategies and helping develop partnerships across the public sector to enable improvement in estates


Sam Gullam

Sam is a product designer whose main focus of work for the past 20 years has been the design of street furniture, products and

wayfinding schemes for the public realm and transit systems.

Sam’s belief is that a coordinated approach to movement and information systems is not only an opportunity for enhancing a city’s identity and its sense of place, but is a fundamental aspect of making our cities work. Sam is creative director and founder of Lacock Gullam; projects include the Bristol Legible City Initiative and Legible London pedestrian wayfinding systems. In both cases Sam was involved in strategic development and led the product design consultant team. Responsible for the conceptual design of Transport for London’s current bus shelters, Sam’s expertise covers the areas of user-centred and inclusive design, sustainability and product development. Designing systems and products with clients such as transport authorities, local authorities, landowners and private sector street furniture advertising companies, Sam advises on strategy through to scheme implementation.

Recently Sam has been invited to conferences in Tokyo and Kazakhstan to speak about his approach to designing for cities.

Andrew Haley

Andrew is a Chartered Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and Regeneration Consultant.

His 24 years experience has a strong emphasis on working collaboratively, developing increasingly distinctive places which are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. Andrew has been responsible for a wide range of award-winning projects across the UK, Ireland and internationally, as Director with The Paul Hogarth Company. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development commended the work for the Laganside area of Belfast’s Waterfront as being ‘representative of international best-practice’. The Masterplan provided the vision for continued investment, totalling over £1 billion. Public Realm, including Custom House Square and the historic streetscapes of Cathedral Quarter were catalysts to wider regeneration. The Wild Atlantic Way, on Ireland’s west coast has contributed significantly to economic growth in remote, rural communities and the region as a whole.

The longest designated driving route in the world, it is attracting new international/local visitors, welcoming them to spectacular landscapes and coastal experiences. Member of the Ministerial Advisory Group, which advises the Minister for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on matters relating to the Architecture and Built Environment Policy for Northern Ireland.

Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Ben is the founding director of Hamilton-Baillie Associates, a small consultancy in Bristol specializing in street design and traffic in towns.

He is the UK’s leading exponent of low-speed design principles and shared space, seeking ways to better integrate traffic into cities, towns and villages. Ben trained as an architect at Cambridge, and worked in social housing development and the creation of the National Cycle Network with Sustrans, before focusing on street design. He combines urban design with traffic engineering and research into driver psychology. Lead designer for the regeneration of the award-winning scheme for Poynton in Cheshire, he has worked on projects such as Exhibition Road in London, and Fishergate in Preston.

Ben has particular expertise in reducing the impact of traffic on rural communities, and has prepared guidance for National Parks and highway authorities on the design and management of rural roads. He is author of “Traffic in Villages: A toolkit for communities” and contributed to the “Manual for Streets “(2).


Annette Hards

Annette trained as an Architect/Urban Designer, and now uses her 30 years’experience as a practitioner to combine writing and

research into the connections between places and our health and well-being, with facilitating community/stakeholder engagement in the design process.

Architect-in-Education at the Kent Architecture Centre (2000-2011), developing and delivering a range of innovative and successful projects, engaging people in ‘placemaking’, including Urban Design learning programmes; the Spaceshaper9-14 initiative, and the ‘Places from Spaces’ city learning programme. Annette has been a part time lecturer on Urban Design on the Town Planning Masters of Science (MSc) course at the University of Brighton, and ran a Continuing Professional Development programme for Sussex Planners (2012-14). The links between how we make changes to places and the impact on our health has become the focus of her work over the last three years. She feels strongly that we should do more to make the case for investing in ‘healthy infrastructure’. An Associate of Rethinking Cities, her work has focused on healthy placemaking.

She is currently working on an interactive publication, exploring the many connections between a place and the health and wellbeing of the people who live, work and play there.

Liane Hartley

Liane is a planner by profession with over ten years experience as a strategic planning, community regeneration and economic

development consultant to the public and private sectors.

Her work has included writing numerous high-level policy strategies for central and regional government, and evaluation of numerous national regeneration funding programmes, whilst working for one of the government’s flagship regeneration partnerships: Thames Gateway London Partnership. Author of the Thames Gateway Theme Guide to Designing Safer Communities (2005), which was funded by the UK Home Office and is recognised as best practice. Liane specialises in the socio-economic impacts of regeneration and development, and developing new approaches to managing positive local change. She combines extensive knowledge of the UK planning system and social sustainability with practical policy and strategy development skills. A strong copywriter and bid manager, she excels in thought-leadership.

Passionate about seeing the “community as client”; she helps blur the distinction between business and society, providing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) advice; community engagement; youth engagement, and social enterprise support to facilitate positive locally-led change.

Roger Hawkins

Roger is an experienced architect working on a variety of widely published projects.

A Founding Partner of Hawkins\Brown, he has completed many award winning buildings including the new Biochemistry Building for Oxford University, Park Hill in Sheffield and the Corby Cube. Roger also led the design team on the redevelopment of Parliament Square in Westminster and the £900 million upgrade of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station. He has considerable design experience gained in the early stages of projects, where presentation quality of ideas and clarity of vision is of paramount importance. Roger’s influence extends throughout the whole office, and his keen eye and attention to detail is apparent in all the work of the practice.

He has been an active Cabe Enabler on Arts and Education projects since the outset, and Chair of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Design Competitions. He is a member of the RIBA Validation Board, Chair of the RIBA Insurance Agency and Trustee of the Harlow Art Trust. He has written several articles published in architectural magazines, and has been a visiting critic and lecturer in a variety o schools of architecture including Sheffield, Nottingham, the Bartlett, Harvard and Yale.


Mike Hayes

Mike is a consultant urban planner and former senior officer in the public sector. His range of skills are in urban planning, urban design,

regeneration and development at regional, city and neighbourhood levels.

His particular strengths are: building vision, developing strategy, providing leadership, thinking laterally, inspiring commitment, devising delivery mechanisms and communicating ideas. He was President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (2004) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to local government and the voluntary sector (2008). He was invited to become a member of the Academy of Urbanism (2011), and is an accredited neighbourhood plan examiner. He is director of his consultancy Michael Hayes Consulting Ltd.

Current appointments include: Secretary to the National Planning Forum; non-salaried Examining Inspector; National Infrastructure Directorate in the Planning Inspectorate; Member of design review panel for MADE and PlacesMatter!; Member of Historic England’s Advisory Committee and Urban Panel. Recently he has led a major church regeneration project on a pro-bono basis, and is chair of the board of trustees of the Weir Link Children and Community Centre in Balham, south London.

Colin Haylock

Colin is an Architect-Planner with over 40 years’ experience spanning the public, private and educational sectors.

Until 1999 he ran a large multi-disciplinary Environmental Design and Conservation Team for Newcastle City Council, including initiating the Europa Nostra Award winning Grainger Town regeneration programme. He spent 10 years as Urban Design Director for a major architectural practice and now runs an independent specialist consultancy. Colin has been intensely involved in the work of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1990, leading the development of its Urban Design Network and was the Institute’s national president in 2012. As a Regional Representative and Enabler he has been a major contributor to the work of the Cabe throughout its life. He a Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning at University College London, and Visiting Professor of Practice in Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. He is a member of the London Mayor’s Design Advisory Group, a member of the planning committee for the Old Oak Park Royal Mayoral Development Corporation and of numerous other planning, design review and awards assessment panels.

Wayne Head

Wayne is architect and Partner at Curl La Tourelle and Head architects. He has recently joined the practice and has twenty years of

professional practice experience.

Previously, Wayne worked as senior architect with Penoyre and Prasad Architects, and also more recently with BDP as director. He is committed to ensuring the highest design thinking and quality is delivered through the projects he engages with. Equally, through his role as the Cabe Built Environment Expert, and design review panel member to three London boroughs, and national panel member to the Civic Trust Awards.


Philip Heaton

A chartered landscape architect and town planner with 25 years’ experience, Phil joined Cabe in 2003, and is one of its longest serving

enablers. He ran the niche design firm Parklife (1995 - 2008), when it was merged with Middle Eastern landscape firm Cracknell, including all its staff and projects. Through Cabe, Phil’s advice to local authorities has included masterplanning; Housing Market Renewal; children’s play for five Olympic boroughs; sport; recreation and green space planning. He offers a particular expertise in community engagement and the design of active environments that local authorities find helpful.

Phil’s work with communities was featured in a Channel Four TV series: “Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan” (2008). Phil’s work is cited as an example of good practice in many Cabe publications, such as the regeneration of public realm and housing estates in Islington EC1. Phil became Director of Public Realm for Broadway Malyan’s 15 offices worldwide (2011), continuing his work in the Middle East until 2013, when he left to pursue his own projects.

Recently, he has been helping to deliver Cabe’s Active by Design programme through a pilot project in West Howe, Bournemouth.

Jon Herbert

Jon is a chartered town planner with 18 years’ experience in urban design and planning consultancy.

Associate Director with Tibbalds, he has previously held positions with Urban Initiatives and Llewelyn Davies. Jon has strong experience in strategic, spatial, policy and neighbourhood planning, having led on the production of Area Action Plans; Supplementary Planning Documents; consultation exercises and technical policy documents to support and guide the evolution of the Local Plan process. This has included the production of masterplans, growth and town centre strategies. Jon has an excellent understanding of the current policy agenda. He recently led research into neighbourhood planning on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Communities and Local Government, drawing out lessons and advice from the first wave of neighbourhood plans. He also led research into the impact of the National Planning Policy Framework on housing land supply, decision-making and plan preparation.

In addition to being a Built Environment Expert, Jon is also a member of the Placemaking Leadership Council and the London Borough of Merton Design Review Panel. He brings to his work a thorough understanding of the planning process with sensitivity to design and masterplanning.

Dan Hill

Dan is Associate Director at Arup, and Head of Arup Digital Studio: a multidisciplinary design team that helps clients develop

transformative digital technology for cities, spaces, infrastructure, buildings and organisations.

A digital designer and urbanist, Dan’s previous leadership positions have produced innovative, influential projects and organisations, ranging across the built environment (Arup, Future Cities Catapult); education and research (Fabrica); government (SITRA); and media (BBC, Monocle): each one transformed positively via digital technology and a holistic approach to design. Living and working in the UK, Australia, Finland and Italy, Dan began work on the urban regeneration of Manchester, and has subsequently worked on city strategy/urban development projects worldwide. An adjunct professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, and at the University of Technology Sydney. His design work has featured in the United Arab Emirates: ‘Museum of the Future’, Dubai (2014, 2015); Istanbul Design Biennal (2012), ‘Habitar’ (Gijon, 2010); and: ‘Remodelling Architecture’ (Sydney, 2009), and is regularly featured in global media. Books include: “Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary” (Strelka Press, 2012), numerous pieces for books, journals, magazines and websites.

He has produced the groundbreaking and highly influential weblog City of Sound since 2001.


Stephen Hill

Stephen is a chartered planning and development surveyor, working as an independent public interest practitioner.

He has forty years’ public and private sector experience of housing; planning and delivering mixed-use development; urban extensions; new settlements; and community-led neighbourhood regeneration. He has acted as facilitator for a cohousing project supported by Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire Councils. He has been course tutor on professional ethics, city planning for social/economic justice and on Integrated Design of the Built Environment Master’s course, Cambridge University. Stephen is the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ representative on the government’s Housing Sounding Board, the Housing Design Awards judging panel and board of the Housing Forum. He has written extensively on the causes of failure in UK property markets, and their damaging structural effects on society and the economy, and made proposals for reforms of taxation, local government financing, infrastructure investment markets and the structure of the housebuilding ‘industry’.

He recently visited the USA and Canada as a Churchill Fellow, studying the relationship between the ‘state’ and citizens, through community organised housing. He advises the UK’s first urban Community Land Trust (CLT) - East London CLT - and is a board member of both the National CLT and UK Cohousing Networks.

David Hills

Educated at Cambridge University, David established the architectural practice DSDHA with Deborah Saunt (2001), after working for Panter

Hudspith, Tim Ronalds and Erick van Egeraat. Receiving eleven Royal Institute of British Architects Awards for their completed projects, DSDHA has also received the Building Design Architect of the Year and Education Architect of the Year Awards (2010).

Within the practice, David has led a number of award winning projects, including the Stirling Prize shortlisted Christ’s College School. His recent experience has focused on special needs education, and an increasing portfolio of high density mixed use developments. David has taught architecture for over ten years at Cambridge and the Architectural Association, and currently teaches a diploma studio at London Metropolitan University.

He has been a member of the Cabe Design Review Panel since 2009, and contributed to significant reviews of projects of all natures from urban regeneration, national infrastructure and residential development of many different scales.

Luke Hillson

Luke, a recognised practitioner in urban design, is a senior design consultant with a background in town planning, and expertise in urban

design and masterplanning.

With over a decade of experience, Luke has a great understanding of all aspects of urban design and masterplanning, with particular emphasis on placemaking, sustainable communities and active places. He has experience of working at a variety of scales from small residential layouts through to large scale masterplanning. Previous work has included urban extensions, eco-towns and masterplanning the London 2012 Olympic shooting venue.

Through his contribution to design work, Luke places emphasis on placemaking, through the application of best practice in design for accessibility, safety, mixed-uses, adaptability and sustainability. His work demands inspiring environments for people to live within, enhancing life and well-being through the built environment whilst enabling and promoting active travel.


Edward Hobson

Edward is an urban planner and designer with over 15 years’ experience of advising on national and local policies, strategies and

interventions to improve the built environment through leading diverse teams of nationally respected experts.

Currently, as Design Lead at the Knowledge Transfer Network, he supports businesses to use design in innovation across various industry sectors. Focusing specifically on urban living and addressing design to bring greater integration to city services, he draws on considerable experience of supporting city partnerships across the public and private sectors. He established and managed Cabe’s sustainable design initiative: Sustainable Cities. Also an Associate at the Institute for Sustainability, Edward brings extensive understanding of energy and resource issues, having spent two years as deputy director at the leading environmental think tank, Green Alliance. Previously, he led the creation and development of Cabe’s specialist public space research unit within Cabe Space, for 8 years working closely with national government, professional bodies and industry stakeholders to support local authorities and improve the quality of public space across the country.

Edward also has extensive research and knowledge management expertise, directing Cabe’s programme of research, building an unparalleled portfolio of evidence demonstrating the value of high quality environments.

Tom Holbrook

Tom came to architecture tangentially, co-founding 5th Studio (1997), as a spatial design agency, working across the

fields of architecture, urban design, infrastructure and landscape.

His design research has developed an approach to strategic thinking that explores the dynamic between architecture and the scale of infrastructure and landscape. The relationship between research and practice has encouraged design innovation and a fresh attitude towards conservation, environmental sustainability and complex regeneration projects.

Tom is Professor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, exploring comparative urbanism in Barcelona, Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City. He directs the urban studies programme at the London School of Architecture.

Eric Holding

Eric is Director of Strategy at JTP Cities, providing strategic placemaking advice on large scale developments worldwide.

He has been involved in sustainable masterplanning and the design of mixed-use developments, and delivered award-winning schemes for high profile clients across Europe. He led an international team creating an award-winning sustainable urban extension to Reykjavik for 10,000 people (2004-2007). He has recently been involved with Battersea Power Station, conducting early feasibility/sensitivity testing and subsequently overseeing preparation of the Design and Access Statement for the proposals. Since 2010 Eric has devised/run a series of seminars leading to a 25 year Placemaking Strategy. He is currently working in one of ten international teams selected to look at the expansion of Moscow, with Larry Beasley and Urban Design Associates, USA. Trained as an architect in the UK and USA, with a Masters in Theories of Representation, Eric has taught at Oxford Brookes University, and was employed as a Research Associate in Architectural Studies at Middlesex University.

He is author of: ‘Staged Architecture’, Sunday Times Architecture Book of the Year, and chapters and articles on architecture and urban theory for periodicals/magazines. Qualified in Management Consulting at the Graduate School of Business in Grenoble, France, (2007), he uses these techniques in analysis and creating development strategy.


Anthony Hollingsworth

Anthony is a town planner with experience of working across a range of mainly London based regeneration projects during his 25 years in

practice. Anthony has extensive local and strategic planning knowledge gained from his time working for the London Borough of Newham, the Greater London Authority, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and now at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), where he is Director of Planning Policy and Decisions. He worked for the City of Bath before joining the London Olympic project in 2006, where he managed the ODA’s Planning Decisions Team, responsible for securing the necessary planning permissions.

Gillian Horn

Gillian joined Penoyre & Prasad in 1999 and became a Partner in 2004. Her approach is to achieve a thorough understanding of the needs of clients, to

create robust briefs and elegant, inspiring designs. She has led numerous ground-breaking, award-winning project teams with an ambitious, enthusiastic and positive approach to problem solving, including: Moorfields International Children’s Eye Hospital, Crawley Library and Merchants’ Academy. Her consultancy work includes: Client Design Advice, Design Quality Indicator facilitation, and Design Surgeon for Urban Design London. Gillian studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating with distinction before continuing her training at Harvard.

Prior to Penoyre & Prasad, she was project architect on the innovative Straw Bale House, Islington for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Gillian has taught at the Architectural Association, University of Cambridge, Kingston University, Greenwich University and is an external examiner at the University of Manchester and University of East London. she is a regular conference speaker/contributor to Radio 4’s Learning Curve; Front Row; Teachers’ TV, and the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal. Gillian contributed to the second edition of the acclaimed book: ‘Managing the Brief for Better Design’, and ‘Round and About Stock Orchard Street.’

Glenn Howells

After studying architecture at Plymouth University, Glenn worked for Spence and Webster Architects (1987-1990) London, before

founding Glenn Howells Architects (GHA).

GHA has won numerous major design competitions, over 70 awards and built a portfolio of completed projects across diverse building types. With an overview of all aspects of the practice, he concentrates on design, regularly reviewing all projects during design development/construction stages. Externally, has been part of Cabe’s Design Review Panel since 2000 and was a member of the Olympic Design Review Panel. He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects National Awards Judging Panel (2003-2010); chair of Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment since 2003; chair of the IKON Gallery, Birmingham; and board member of the Hippodrome Theatre. He advises Birmingham City Council and sits on the Board for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. Academically, he has been an external examiner at the University of Nottingham and Queen’s University, Belfast.

He is currently visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University; external examiner at Sheffield Hallam University and lecturer at the Centre of Alternative Technology, Wales. He sits on the Warwick University Council and is chair of the Building Committee.


Simon Hudspith

Simon studied at Newcastle University and won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Bronze Medal as an undergraduate.

He then gained a Harkness Fellowship and continued his education at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he won the Samuel Huckel Architecture Prize. Simon gained professional experience at the Terry Farrell Partnership, Venturi Rauch and Scott Brown, and ORMS, prior to setting up Panter Hudspith Architects (1988) where he is responsible for management of the design process, overseeing consistency and thoroughness from conceptual design to completed buildings. He was partner in charge of the Collection, Lincoln; Christ’s Lane, Cambridge; Princesshay, Exeter; and Davygate, York, which have won a combined total of nineteen awards including three RIBA, three Civic Trust, one American Institute of Architects and twelve construction awards.

He has led project teams designing over a thousand new homes in Southwark (including two schemes for the Elephant and Castle), a masterplan for the centre of Beverley, and three residential buildings within the athlete’s village for the 2012 Olympics. Simon has been a member of Cabe’s Design Review panel since 2009.

Kay Hughes

Kay is a chartered architect with over 25 years’ experience working across a range of sectors, as client and design lead to achieve the best

possible outcomes for complex and high profile projects.

She runs Khaa, a consultancy that pioneers better design solutions through stakeholder engagement, design briefing, project initiation, design team selection and project review. Her significant role in leading and delivering award winning buildings at London 2012, and in previous client roles at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Sport England in the build up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games, demonstrate the range of experience she has across a number of sectors. One of Kay’s achievements is her ability to bring together multi-disciplined stakeholders and understand the challenges at every stage of even the most complex builds, to leave a meaningful design legacy. Kay is a member of the Association of Project Management, has been an award assessor for the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Royal Institute of British Architects, Building Design Magazine, New London Architecture and the Civic Trust.

She currently sits on the Greenwich Design Review Panel.

Michael Hurlow

Michael, after completing his training as an artist, became a chartered landscape architect and is now also a member of the

Institute of Historic Building Conservation, and an Academician with the Academy of Urbanism.

He has substantial experience of local authorities, has worked with the third sector, and as a consultant. Starting a career in the major regeneration activity in Birmingham led to work in Exeter, helping shape its valley parks and forming the first definition of its ‘green hills’, providing the setting for the historic city. Working with the Black Country Development Corporation, Michael contributed to major landscaping and regeneration work supporting the construction of the Black Country Spine Road. He has worked in County Durham for 15 years, including acting as the Heritage and Design Manager for the City of Durham, and with the Groundwork Trust in east Durham.

More recently he has worked with Durham City Vision on its major initiatives, included major riverside development. With a strong background in physical and social regeneration Michael now specialises in heritage and works as a consultant and in Durham supporting the World Heritage Site and its Coordinating Committee as an adviser.


Donald Hyslop

Donald is an urbanist and Head of Regeneration and Community for Tate Galleries.

Over the last twenty five years his work has been at the forefront of exploring and thinking about the role culture, architecture and museums can play in the regeneration, placemaking, economic and social development of cities and communities. At Tate, with a wide and varied portfolio, he has led an ongoing urban renewal programme which has put Tate Modern at the centre of a cultural and social model of regeneration in South London, built around a series of innovative partnerships. Donald is Chair of Trustees of Borough Market where he has led the thousand year old charity through a period of major change. He also chairs Better Bankside Business Improvement District, one of the founding British Business Improvement Districts. Donald acts as an advisor on creative economy for the British Council and advises, lectures and teaches widely on cultural and business policy, urban renewal, community empowerment and creative cities.

Philip Insall

Philip was responsible for creating the public health programme of Sustrans, and driving its implementation over more than 20

years. He has built a strong network in public health, and relating transport and planning to physical activity promotion; air quality; climate change and sustainability.

Philip has worked closely with the main national public health bodies, such as the Association of Directors of Public Health and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He co-led the formation and work programme of the All Party Commission on Physical Activity, and has supported and advised bodies such as royal medical colleges, Foresight and the British Medical Association, as well as numerous other contributions to parliamentary committees, ministerial briefings, journals, general media etc. He also initiated a European-level programme, working with the cities network Polis and World Health Organisation to influence transport and health policy at international level.

Philip has created trans-disciplinary research programmes, advises on individual research projects, and sits on the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Programme Advisory Board. He is a member of the UK Health Forum and Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health.

John Jenkins

John is an architect and one of the founding partners of Haverstock, a London-based architectural practice.

Having been with the practice for 34 years, he now leads the second generation into an exciting and challenging future. John is currently working on a wide range of projects, including the new headquarters for the London Metropolitan Police, and several special needs and mainstream schools. He chairs the Home Office Design Review Panel; is a Home Office enabler, and a Royal Institute of British Architects Client Design Advisor. He was one of the chairs of Cabe’s Schools Design Panel and acted as a CABE enabler, helping local education and police authorities to improve design quality. John has been responsible for the research and technical aspects of many publications including Building Bulletin 102: ‘Designing for Special Educational Needs’, and: ‘Learning Environments for Pupil Referral Units’, both prepared with the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

He regularly presents to conferences and seminars on issues such as design quality, special school design and new learning spaces. John works with many other architects in an external peer review capacity.


Annalise Johns

Annalise has been working as an urban designer as the strategic urban lead in the transport division of Hammersmith and

Fulham Council. She has designed several sustainable drainage neighbourhood schemes, which aim to maximise local resilience in terms of the health, wellbeing and long term environmental quality. Annalise undertook a secondment in Public Health in Westminster (2013-14) where she was testing behaviour change in the built environment in areas of deprivation.

Currently, in her specialism in Health, Wellbeing and Urban Mobility, she is exploring the adaptation of system thinking to produce resilient cities and communities by design.

Lesley Johnson

Lesley is an experienced public and voluntary sector client for housing and mixed use development projects, particularly

large scale regeneration and where proposals affect existing communities.

She is working with a local authority to support the set up of estate regeneration and small sites programmes for new council homes, negotiating large offsite Section 106 affordable housing projects and developing borough-wide regeneration principles with residents. Mixed use projects include schools, nurseries and community buildings. Lesley was project lead for the local authority on the Myatts Field North project in London. The project provides 950 new and refurbished homes as well as retail and community facilities, and involves a significant rehousing programme for existing residents.

Lesley provided consultancy support to a housing association in Kent undertaking its first estate regeneration projects, and has provided training and support to members and senior officers on a number of high profile projects. Lesley is researching the impact of resident and community participation in housing regeneration and the development of new homes to see what we can do better.

Mark Johnson

Mark has been a chartered landscape architect for 15 years, and a director at UBU Design Ltd for 5 years.

Prior to founding UBU Design, he worked in Rotterdam for West 8 on large scale international developments, including Stratford City and the new Design Museum. Prior to joining West 8, Mark worked for the Community Technical Aid Centre, a small charity working with groups in deprived areas of Greater Manchester. The charity specialized in architecture, landscape and community engagement to deliver aspirational projects with local groups. He has recently completed the design and implementation of Les Beauchamp’s High School, a Secondary School in Guernsey. This project has won numerous awards, including a regional Royal Institute of British Architects Award and a Civic Trust Award. Mark is currently working on a large retail development in Rushden, Northamptonshire. The scheme is situated on the edge of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and includes extensive integrated surface design with a number of key features, including two large water features and a water play area.

He also sits on the Design Review Panel for Southampton City Council. Mark has taught at both Manchester Metropolitan University and Portsmouth School of Architecture.


Dan Jones

Dan is an architect and co-founder of art and architecture practice Civic Architects (2005).

He has provided professional design services and strategic enabling advice, as an architect working with community groups and their local councils since 1998. Civic were awarded Building Design’s Architect of the Year Award for Environmental Excellence (2012), for their work on the Gamlingay Eco Hub. The Hub offers a study in how to creatively bring back to life an apparently redundant community centre on a budget. Now a government exemplar of community action, working in the spirit of the new Community Rights, the Hub is the first community centre in the country to incorporate three different passive technologies without fossil fuel backup. Recent work includes the roof-level refurbishment and extension of the Royals Youth Centre in Rainham. This project completes a series of small, sensitive interventions commissioned by the Greater London Authority, reconnecting Rainham to the river.

Dan has been a member of Cabe’s Oxford Design Review Panel since 2012, and has made contributions as a Built Environment Expert on topics such as: community asset transfer, housing design quality and community rights issues. He was Managing Director of The Glass House Community-led Design (2004-05).

Phil Jones

Phil is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in the planning/design of highway and other infrastructure, with

particular expertise in transport planning and street design for new developments. He specialises in achieving synergy between street/urban design, with the aim of creating places/spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims.

He is Principal of Phil Jones Associates, a 25 strong firm which conducts transport planning, design and research work. He was part of the team that produced: Manual for Streets, for the Department for Transport (DfT), its comprehensive guide to the design of urban and residential streets, and was a lead writer on: Manual for Streets 2, for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation/DfT/Cabe. Previously a Cabe Space enabler, he has carried out numerous assignments, including projects in Cumbria and Greater Manchester. He is a member of expert panels for Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment; OPUN: Design East Midlands; Design South East, and Urban Vision North Staffs. He regularly undertakes training for Urban Design London, including their regular Introduction to Urban Design day, and on Designing for Cycling.

Actively involved in cycling initiatives at national level, Phil leads on the Welsh Government’s Active Travel Design Guidelines and is a member of DfT’s Cycle Proofing Working Group.

Maja Jorgensen

Maya’s experiences, gained whilst practicing as an urban designer in the UK and abroad, have strengthened her desire to engage with

and support communities living in places, undergoing change.

She is passionate about empowering communities to achieve well-designed spaces through raising design skills and aspirations. Maya has practical design, workshop and project management experience from both private and third sector, and builds lasting relations with communities, regeneration professionals and a wide range of organisations. Working at The Glass-House, she champions community engagement and good design, through independent advice, support and training, by coordinating their annual series of 2-day design training courses; and delivering direct support to community groups and professionals across the UK.

She project manages individual projects, and designs in detail the content of hands-on workshops; seminars; study tours and talks to give community members the skills, confidence and knowledge to lead their community project to fruition.


Kristian Kaminski

Kristian is Deputy Team Leader of the Design and Conservation Team for the London Borough of Islington, responsible for

ensuring that Islington’s 4000 listed buildings and 41 conservation areas are conserved, and that all new developments are high quality contextual design. Trained as an architectural historian, he previously worked for English Heritage and the Victorian Society.

Kristian is currently advising on the restoration of the Grade II* listed former Middlesex Sessions House and the restoration, adaptation and redevelopment of the former Holborn Infirmary, aiming to provide in the region of 250 new homes and new public space. He is an experienced expert witness at public inquiries, including the first significant public inquiry decision under the National Planning Policy Framework concerning heritage.

Kristian is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and sits on the Committee of SAVE Britain’s Heritage. As a Trustee of Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery Trust, he advises on the Heritage Lottery Fund project to restore Sir John Soane’s Grade I listed late Georgian villa.

Hanif Kara

Hanif combines practice with teaching, currently appointed as Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the

Graduate School of Design, Harvard.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Royal Institute of British Architects; Institution of Civil Engineers; Institution of Structural Engineers; Royal Society of Arts; and on the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation. Hanif is a former Cabe Commissioner, and served as a member of the Design for London Advisory Group to the Mayor of London. As Design Director and co-founder of AKT II, his particular ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative form, material uses and complex analysis methods have allowed him to work on numerous award-winning, pioneering projects.

Hanif has widely published works including: ‘Design Engineering’, a retrospective of AKT’s first decade (2008); and co-published with Harvard: ‘Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering’ (2012). Most recently he edited: ‘deliverance of Design - making, mending and revitalising structures’, a look at the works of AKT II from 1996 - 2016.

Paul Karakusevic

Paul leads a team of specialists working at the forefront of housing architecture and urban regeneration.

A founding partner of Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA), he has nurtured a design and strategy led practice which adopts a dynamic approach to masterplans; urban regeneration programmes; mixed tenure housing; and estate renewal architecture projects for local authority, RSL clients and private developers. Working innovatively with emerging funding structures and national design standards, Paul places residents at the heart of the design process creating exemplary, distinctive design, delivering both commercial and social benefits.

With a ‘hands on’ approach to the practice, he is collaborative and passionate about good design, and co-founded KCA to raise housing standards. Paul believes in design/construction qualities, which deliver outstanding housing/neighbourhoods regardless of tenure; reflecting a unique sense of place; loved by residents; financially viable, and withstanding the test of time. Appointed as a Greater London Authority (GLA) Urban Design Advisor, a Design Surgeon for Urban Design London, and facilitated client training sessions for the GLA. As Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) Design Champion, he conducted their technical design audit of affordable housing projects; assisted in writing the new Housing and Policy standards and contributed to the London Housing Design Guide.


Roland Karthaus

Roland is an architect, urbanist and researcher with a unique range of professional experience in the built environment.

He has completed numerous architecture projects, led masterplans, advised on the development of new cities around the world, and commissioned building projects as a public sector client. His practice, Karthaus Design creates architecture that is enriched by this broad range of experience and deeply founded in research. As a Royal Institute of British Architects Client Adviser, Roland has supported diverse clients to define briefs for major, strategic projects and develop the processes for their delivery. He continues to teach design at the University of East London, where he was a former postgraduate course leader, and is a named researcher in the University’s Research Excellency Framework submission (2014). He was visiting professor at the International University of Architecture in Venice (2012).

Recently, together with a colleague, Roland led a European Union funded professional urban design workshop in India on the design of a new state capital city, now under construction. He lectures widely on urban design and was the keynote speaker at the Swedish Green Building Council conference (2015).

Tim Kellett

Tim is a freelance architect and urban designer who has worked for over 30 years in the public sector, and more recently with

Camborne Pool Redruth Urban Regeneration Company, then with Cornwall Development Company.

His experience includes delivering an area based regeneration programme with Urban Regeneration Companies, working with national agencies, councils and private sector developers. He has also provided key design advice and project management support to many European funded projects over the last few years, including the Redruth Brewery Quarter and the Hall For Cornwall Theatre in Truro, both of which he is still involved in. Tim has led major community engagement processes to support these projects and facilitated many community and stakeholder workshops. A keen advocate of design quality, he has provided design guidance documents, organised design seminars and workshops, and acted as client design champion. His role has extended to project management and commissioning of design teams and artists.

Recently, Tim has been giving urban design support to parish and town councils undertaking Neighbourhood Plans. Tim is an active member of the Cornwall Design Review Panel, the Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation, and the Urban Design Group.

Mike Kelly

Mike is a construction project and design consultant, a versatile and respected performer with over 40 years’ experience and achievements as

designer, project director, and estate and project manager.

He has wide experience of working as an architect and director, delivering complex programmes and sensitive projects for housing; schools; health buildings; libraries; fire stations; community buildings; commercial buildings and embassies. Experienced at giving advice for successful design and delivery, carrying out project reviews for design quality, efficiency and effectiveness, he is proud of completing well designed projects within budget, and on time. He has board level and advisory experience including: Government Gateway reviewer; Cabe enabler; Royal Institute of British Architects Client Design Adviser; Design Quality Indicator facilitator; and design reviewer for the Home Office, Essex County Council and Department of Health. In addition, he has led teams and directed multi-million pound complex and prestigious projects for numerous clients, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Recently, he has produced designs for a major school refurbishment and extension, and numerous low-energy and sustainable housing developments.


Jonathan Kendall

Jonathan is a trained architect, specialising in large scale urban design and masterplanning projects. Partner and Director of Urban

Design at Fletcher Priest Architects, and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Jonathan has worked on a number of high profile, large scale urban projects from initial concept through to the successful achievement of planning permissions. For over a decade, he led the design of the Stratford City masterplan: one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects, which sat at the heart of the London Olympic Park, and where a residential district formed from the 2012 Athletes Village. Having won the international design competition for the new urban centre of Riga, Jonathan established and continues to lead a studio for the practice based in Latvia. He is currently leading the design of a new town north of Cambridge at Waterbeach, alongside other projects in the UK and internationally.

Jonathan has taught on the Bartlett’s postgraduate urban design programme since 1999, and was appointed to lead the unique interdisciplinary Making Cities programme in 2014. He has spoken at lectures and conferences, acted as a competition juror and published articles in a variety of journals.

Liz Kessler

Liz is an urban designer who has been working for the last 14 years on retrofitting disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

For 6 years (2004-2009), Liz worked for EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC), London. Whilst at the NDC, she was responsible for preparing a public realm strategy to improve the streets, parks and open spaces around blocks of council housing in an integrated way. She then co-ordinated its implementation: initiating projects, writing briefs, selecting designers, working with them, local authority officers and residents and seeing projects through to completion. The area has been substantially transformed, and work identified in the strategy is still being implemented. The strategy and many of the implemented projects have received awards.

Since 2010 Liz has worked freelance, disseminating information about retrofitting deprived areas, whilst also working on the early stages of design development for the Ocean area, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. She has worked on community-led and Neighbourhood Plans. Recently, as part of Design Council Cabe’s Active by Design programme, she has worked in West Howe, Bournemouth developing a Vision for Physical Regeneration of the area. Before completing an MA in Urban Design (2000), Liz worked in housing and the arts.

Maria Kheirkhah

Maria is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic, mapping systems of visual knowledge and culture, particularly that of the Middle

East in relation to the UK.

Born and raised in the north of Iran, she first travelled to the UK in 1979, where she pursued her art education, specialising in sculpture and obtaining an MA at the University of Central England (1997). Maria traveled back to Iran in 1988, teaching at two major universities in Tehran: Alzahra University and The Academy of Arts. Since returning to the UK in the early 1990s, she has completed many artistic projects with major London art galleries and museums.

Maria has taught and exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally. She is a trustee/board member at the 198 Gallery, London, co-runs The Practice Exchange seminar series at Chelsea College of Art and Design and is a lecturer at Richmond University. Among her numerous exhibitions and presentations are: Conversation Pieces, 1001 questions, Tate Britain 2009; The Psychology of Fear, 198 Gallery 2008; and The Anatomy Of Ignorance, Current thinking, Tate Modern 2007. Maria lives and works in London.


Mike Kiely

Mike is a chartered town planner with over 40 years’ experience in local government, mostly in London, with nearly 14 years at senior

officer level. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and former president of the Planning Officers Society, now chair of its Board.

Mike works closely with government and across the sector to shape planning in England. During his local government career he successfully delivered major redevelopment and regeneration projects, including the largest housing delivery programme of any council whilst at Tower Hamlets, and at Croydon the largest outer London growth agenda. His work has been recognised in a series of national awards as exemplars of best practice, including Croydon’s planning service being cited in the Farrell Review (May 2014): “as a case study for what can be achieved and what the conditions are for proactive planning”. Croydon won Planning Authority of the Year at mipimUK and Planning Policy Team of the Year at the Planning Awards (2014).

He set up his consultancy, Mike Kiely planning + regeneration (2015), to specialise in assisting local authorities to perform better and be more effective.

Doug King

An internationally recognised pioneer in the field of sustainable design, Doug is a chartered physicist and chartered

environmentalist as well as chartered engineer, bringing a scientific approach and environmental sensitivity to the design of buildings.

He was the engineer behind many ground-breaking, sustainable buildings, including two Stirling Prize shortlisted schemes: Edward Cullinan’s Weald and Downland Gridshell, and Chetwood Associates’ Sainsbury’s supermarket at Greenwich. For the latter, his inspiration for a naturally lit and ventilated superstore was described by Building magazine as the most radical design in the history of retailing. Doug also worked on Grimshaw’s Rolls Royce Factory at Goodwood; Behnisch’s Genzyme Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until recently the largest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum building in the world; and the Innovate Green Office in Leeds, the building that set the benchmark for Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology Outstanding rating. Doug is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He is an accomplished teacher and is a visiting professor at the universities of Bath and Chongqing; also a member of South West Design Review; The Edge; RIBA Sustainable Futures and an advisor to The Ove Arup Foundation.

Graham King

Graham has worked for three London borough planning services since 1973, concentrating on historic building and urban design issues;

more recently, policy and transportation issues, including public realm policies, projects and funding. He has worked in these roles for the City of Westminster since 1984, and been Head of Strategic Planning and Transportation since 2009. He sat on the Cabe Planning Advisory Committee and Local Development Framework panel; he has also served on Cabe’s Design Review Panel and on the South East Regional Design Review Panel (2006-9). Graham has been a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute Education Accreditation panel since 1997.


Dieter Kleiner

Dieter is a founding director of RCKa Architects, established in 2009, and received the Royal Institute of British Architect’s

(RIBA) Emerging Architect of the year award (2014). As Design Director, Dieter has pursued the practice’s interest in socially responsive architecture, community-led urban design and placemaking, and was responsible for the recently completed RIBA and Civic Trust award-winning TNG Youth and Community Centre for Lewisham Council.

He is currently leading on a £12.5m mixed-use community development for Camden Council, and working with developer clients such as London and Quadrant Housing and Pocket Living, which require both his exceptional design and stakeholder management skills. Stepping outside architectural norms, his work has involved project enablement; funding and strategy development for voluntary sector organisations and neighbourhood groups; and providing local authority asset assessment advice. His focus is to make things happen, by, for exampl,e developing collaborations between regeneration teams and grass-roots groups; introducing potential joint venture partnerships and securing local support. He also advises on business plans, and manages complex client and stakeholder groups.

Dieter is also a Design South-East Review Panel member and has been a visiting critic at Sheffield, London Metropolitan and Kingston University Schools of Architecture & Urban Design.

Jane Knight

Jane is a chartered landscape architect with over 30 years of professional experience, gained in the UK and overseas. She has been a CABE

Space Enabler since 2008, has sat on the Southwest Design Review Panel since 2010, and now sits on the Cornwall Design Review Panel.

Since 2002, Jane has worked at the Eden Project in Cornwall, where she works on the ongoing development of the Eden site, as well as Eden’s hugely varied outreach and consultancy projects. Outreach projects include: a Peace Park in Kosovo, Botanical Garden in Chile, mine restoration in South Africa, and advice on community engagement on climate change in Australia. Locally, projects include: ‘Growing for Life’ in prisons, working with community groups to promote nature-based play. Pre-Eden, Jane spent most of her career working as a landscape architect overseas in the USA (6 years), Australia (6 months) and Hong Kong (7 years).

Stefan Kruczkowski

Stefan is a Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design, specialising in residential development, with a particular expertise in

Building for Life 12, that he co-authored.

He also co-devised the Built for Life consumer accreditation scheme, launched in February 2013 to raise the urban design expectations of home buyers. Stefan divides his time between being a lecturer and researcher in Urban Design, at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Architecture and the Built Environment, and running his own consultancy. He acts as the Urban Designer for North West Leicestershire District Council, as an enabler and design review panel member for OPUN, the architecture centre for the East Midlands, and serves on the design review panel for Nottingham City Council.

He has extensive experience of delivering urban design and Building for Life 12 training for a range of public and private sector organisations. Stefan served on the Executive Committee of the Urban Design Group (2013-2015).


Cora Kwiatkowski

As Senior Associate architect for Stride Treglown since 2006, Cora has been responsible for wide ranging projects in the UK including:

offices, residential, masterplan and education projects, and writing design codes.

Her previous working experience in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland also included urban design and transport projects, notably an international competition winning masterplan for Siemens in Munich, and a two level, 14 track train station in Cologne. Cora is a Member of The Devon and Somerset Design Review Panel, and the Design Commission for Wales’ Design Review Panel. Leading multi-disciplinary teams over many years as architect and technical advisor, working for private and public sector clients, and being passionate about design and problem-solving, has enabled her to develop high-quality design principles whilst delivering economically sound solutions.

Lead architect for various workplace and mixed-use schemes over recent years; her refurbishment of Eastleigh House for Eastleigh Borough Council won a regional British Council for Offices (BCO) and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Award as well as the Local authority building control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards for: ‘Best Inclusive Building’. Cora regularly contributes to industry publications including Architect’s Choice and The Green Register. She is bilingual German-English and fluent in French.

Matt Lally

A highly experienced urban designer and town planner, Matt has worked internationally on a wide-ranging portfolio of major planning and

development projects, in both public/private sectors, throughout the UK, Australasia, Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Experience encompasses major urban regeneration; housing renewal; the planning and design of new settlements; urban extensions; mega sport events; resorts; specialist business parks and associated infrastructure. Currently on assignment within the Integrated Design and Planning Team of Arup’s Sydney office, prior to this (2012-2015) he was seconded to lead the Urban Planning Team within the Qatar Government’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy: the body set up to deliver venues and infrastructure needed to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

The first 20 years of Matt’s career was mostly spent as a practioner within the UK, where he worked on a wide variety of place-based projects, such as the award-winning regeneration Woodberry Down in Hackney, and Devonport in Plymouth, together with several UK Government best practice research and guidance publications related to urban planning and design. Matt is an experienced enabler, having provided training and project enabling on behalf of CABE; The Prince’s Foundation; the Glass-House; Scottish Improvement Service; Transform South Yorkshire and others.

Paul Lavelle

Paul is an urban designer currently working in transport planning and street design.

Principal Technical Specialist for Cycling in Transport for London’s (TfLs) strategy and planning team, dealing with design issues from cycle network planning to detailed design, and with the integration of active travel into strategic planning; he was responsible for a comprehensive revision of the London Cycling Design Standards, (published 2014), and is involved in training, practitioner support and design review on street design and cycle infrastructure design via Urban Design London. At the forefront of promoting the importance of good design, through his work for CABE (2003-2011), this included work with local authorities on design initiatives and design-related planning policies.

Paul has worked directly with a number of communities on neighbourhood planning, through the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community and Urban Design London. He also co-founded a community interest company, Fieldwork Enterprise. Paul has been responsible for writing a range of technical built environment-related materials for publication, including an online version of CABE’s Creating Successful Masterplans client guide, and a Client Leadership Guide for the National Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.


Lone Le Vay

Lone is a chartered architect and full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), with over 20 years’ experience in

planning, urban design and conservation, working for local government providing specialist design, urban design and historic environment advice.

She currently manages a Conservation and Design team at Chichester District Council. Passionate about improving the quality of design in new development, particularly housing, and managing change in historic areas positively. Key roles include: improving the quality of design within a highly valued historic area; leading on the development of a Design Protocol; establishing Chichester’s approach to achieving better design, which informed the preparation of a series of Planning Concept Statements for our strategic sites. Lone advises on design and historic environment policies, both at local and neighbourhood level.

She is also responsible for Public Art and has been involved in securing funding from development, and commissioning works in consultation with local communities. Lone is also a member of the Urban Design Group, and an affiliate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), and an accredited CABE Building for Life assessor.

Justine Leach

Justine is an urban designer and landscape architect with experience gained working in both the UK and Asia.

Her professional practice spans both disciplines, and she has worked across all aspects of the built environment. Justine provides design leadership through roles on the Cabe and South West design review panels, and as a design champion. She has been a Design Council CABE enabler for 9 years and also a CABE Space enabler, during which she has provided specialist advice to over ten local authorities, and co-ordinated programmes of work, such as the Thames Gateway housing audit. Justine has been a Chartered Member of the Landscape institute (CMLI) for seventeen years and worked in mixed discipline consultancy; currently Director of Urban Design and Landscape at Nash Partnership, Bath. Previously she worked at EDAW (AECOM), rising to Associate Director. A significant part of her career has been involved in regeneration and developing strategic design guidance.

With considerable experience in neighbourhood/urban public space design, including the streets and public realm housing, she has worked extensively with community groups and local authority officers, delivering training to those involved in Housing Market Renewal and Rural Masterplanning programme.

Marcus Lee

Marcus formed LEEP: Lee Partnership in 2014. He has acquired a reputation for design excellence in the industry, and brings together a

practice of like-minded architects. Marcus’ broad experience includes 21 years at Richard Rogers Partnership, where he worked on a range of major projects including Lloyd’s, Heathrow Terminal 1 redevelopment and Terminal 5. Architect for the Stirling Prize award winning competition design for Madrid’s Barajas Airport, he subsequently initiated the early development of the Millennium Exhibition, the Dome, and the Greenwich Peninsula regeneration masterplan. Marcus co-founded FLACQ (2005).

Projects included the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) competition, winning scheme at Morecambe Central Promenade for Urban Splash. Later, Director of Glenn Howells Architects, London (3 years) and one year as Principal at Arup Associates. Both a Design Council Cabe and Hackney Design Panel member, he was RIBA Awards chair for East Midlands (2013). A visiting tutor at numerous schools, including the Mackintosh School of Architecture; Yale; Nottingham University, and the University of Liverpool.


Thomas Lefevre

Thomas is a Sustainability Engineer with over 15 years experience in environmental engineering, and sustainable design

and construction. He has worked in the UK and abroad, in architectural and engineering firms.

Thomas set up Etude (2012), a sustainable engineering practice based in London with a particular expertise in very low energy buildings. His aim has always been to find the most appropriate environmental response on projects, including the Passivhaus Parliament Hill School in Camden; the refurbishment of Grade I listed Somerset House East Wing; research into energy efficient retrofit opportunities for Tower Hamlets, or the exemplar East Wick and Sweetwater development in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Thomas is an environmental sustainability advisor to the University of Manchester, and a member of the Islington Design Panel.

He believes that close collaboration between project team members and a holistic design process lead to sustainable solutions.

Sophie Leon

Sophie graduated from Manchester University / Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble in 2000 with a first class degree in Town Planning. She

went on to study Urban Design at Westminster University while working for Tibbalds. She has extensive experience of design review having worked as Design Review Advisor for the South East Regional Design Panel. In 2006 she moved to Bournemouth to work for Terence O’Rourke where she was involved in masterplanning a number of large urban extensions. Sophie now works for Bournemouth Borough Council where her role includes providing design advice on major schemes as well as developing proposals for improvements to the public realm, walking and cycling facilities. She recently prepared Bournemouth’s Town Centre Development Design Guide and also set up Bournemouth Design Panel. Sophie aims to foster walkable and welcoming neighbourhoods. She believes buildings should respond sensitively to their context and should enrich the lives of people who live or spend time in them, as well as those walking by.

John Letherland

John Letherland is a Partner at Farrells, with particular responsibility for urban design projects.

He studied architecture in Manchester, and joined the practice in 1980, where his education in urban design really began. Focus on context and the spaces between buildings, rather than on buildings as ‘objects’, has always been the foundation stone of his work. John believes that good urban design can only be achieved through the creation of real places and spaces. Experience on various master planning projects realised in London; Manchester; Leeds; Sheffield; Newcastle; Coventry; Auckland; Dublin; Edinburgh and Glasgow, amongst others has combined successfully in a variety of high profile mixed-use, residential, cultural and arts-related projects.

John now leads Farrells Urban Design Group. Recent work includes the development of design frameworks for the Thames Gateway; Old Oak Common; Vauxhall Cross and the Isle of Dogs; and master plans for Croydon Alliance Whitgift; Earls Court; Nine Elms; White City; Mount Pleasant; Bishopsgate Goods Yard; the Greenwich Peninsula and Folkestone Seafront; along with new eco-based urban extensions to Bicester and Wallingford.


Caroline Lewis

Caroline is an experienced access consultant, providing inclusive design advice on legislation, standards and guidance within built,

pedestrian and transport environments.

Having worked both in the UK and Australia, she is recognised for provision of high level consultancy and training services, backed by policy and research expertise. After qualifying with a post graduate Diploma in Town Planning, she began work as an access consultant and gained membership of the National Register of Access Consultants (2002). She has successfully worked with major customers, for example; advising on a wayfinding strategy for customers with vision loss at Sydney Opera House; and on accessibility requirements for an ‘Assisted Self-Service Device’ through Wincor Nixdorf for Barclays Bank.

Much of Caroline’s work is focused around user involvement, engagement and training working, alongside major charities such as Royal National Institute for the Blind; Guide Dogs; Disability Wales; Macmillan, and Vision Australia, as well as local access and disability groups. Caroline is an accomplished trainer, having undertaken courses and seminars on wide ranging access issues, to varied audiences including: the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Australian Institute of Architects. She currently sits on the Access Association’s National Council as journal editorial panel representative.

Holly Lewis

Holly is a registered architect who co-founded architecture and urbanism practice: We Made That (2006).

Shortlisted for the Architects Journal (AJ) Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award (2012), she has led a unique range of public and urban projects for We Made That, from facilitated urban discussion events, through to comprehensive high street regeneration in South Croydon. Holly also leads the research portfolio of the practice, which has included studies of local economies and placemaking in the London Legacy area, and a ’citizens urban advice bureau’ in Southwark.

She continues to pursue her interests in the relationship between policy making and design, as a member of the Tower Hamlets Conservation and Design Advisory Panel, as well as being a visiting critic on the Greater London Authority (GLA) Mayor’s Design Advisory Group. Appointed to the GLA’s Specialist Assistance Team, Holly has taught BSc Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan University. She has lectured in the UK and abroad, including Denmark and Argentina.

Ekaterina Lichtenstein

Ekaterina is an urban designer with over eight years of international masterplanning experience.

Born in Russia, raised in Germany and educated in the US, she has been working in London since 2008. At HOK - a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, she leads the design of large scale city masterplans in different parts of the world, most recently Expo 2020 in Dubai, and the plan for Istanbul New City for a population of 1.2 million people. Ekaterina has been exploring how Big Data and Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies can be used to design the Smart City of the future.

For HOK’s urban design practice, she has helped develop new methodologies, allowing the creation of masterplans parametrically, making them more informative as design tools and adaptive to change. She has been a speaker at conferences such as Ovum’s Smart to Future Cities, and National Building Specification (NBS) Live: Digital Thinking, Smart Building.


Alex Lifschutz

Following a degree in sociology and psychology at Bristol University and research in cognitive psychology, Alex studied at the

Architectural Association, London.

He joined Foster Associates (1977) and worked on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (1981 - 1985). He formed Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, with the late Ian Davidson (1986). Alex’s interest lies in the ability of design to create buildings and cities that respond to change, and that are easily adapted by those who use them. He has developed construction and furniture systems that empower users to easily alter buildings, both in the initial construction process and throughout their life.

Alex is known for his 20 years of involvement in London’s South Bank, helping to regenerate an area that was, not long ago, a twilight zone in the city. He is Past President of the Architectural Association and Chair of Body and Soul, a charity devoted to children and teenagers affected by HIV.

Nicky Linihan

Nicky is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, with over 30 years’ experience in planning (both policy and Development

Management); transport and economic development, predominantly in local government, including at a senior level.

Most recently, she has been Interim Director of Planning for the newly established Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, leading on setting up the planning functions. Nicky chaired the Local Housing Requirements Assessment Working Group (membership comprising key national organisations, with an interest in planning for housing), which developed practical support for organisations to understand their housing needs.

As well as chairing the Group she co-wrote: ‘How Many Homes’ Companion Guide. Nicky’s clients have included the Planning Inspectorate; Planning Advisory Service; the London Boroughs of Harrow, Sutton and Richmond-Upon-Thames; and has provided advice on Objectively Assessed Housing Needs to a range of local authorities. She is the Planning Officer Society’s Topic Convenor for Housing, has been a Planning Advisory Service Spatial Planning Peer, and was a member of the South East England Partnership Board Housing Review Group and Transport Advisory Group.

Tom Lister

Tom began his career as a Local Authority Access Officer (1994), and has since worked with the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), and

Buro Happold Engineers. With a construction background, he is recognised for giving pragmatic advice to integrate the needs of disabled people into the design/management of wide ranging significant buildings, and streetscapes across the UK/Ireland.

Tom advised on the Masterplan that supported the London 2012 bid, and both the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Legacy Development Company, in the design of the Olympic Park, and venues for Games/Legacy uses. His project experience includes: The Emirates Stadium; Leicester Centre for Performing Arts; Windsor Castle, and Belfast Streetscape Redevelopment. Tom has project managed some of the largest accessibility audits in the UK, including the Highways Agency and all Scottish University Buildings; he has proved a capable expert witness.

Tom is one of a few consultants, working at high level within the profession, who can apply good practice in a way that is sensitive to the project context. He brings experience gained from working with disabled people and advising on a diverse range of projects big and small, from new sports stadia to historically significant palaces and landscapes.


Andrew Llowarch

Andrew has been co-director of Llowarch Llowarch Architects (LLA) since 2003.

His skills include: master planning and strategic, site-wide options appraisals, identifying where best value will be achieved in meeting a clients’ brief, and ‘unlocking’ the potential of a site. Andrew is an Enabler for Glass-House Community Led Design, providing support in raising awareness of good design, and their objectives of providing communities with the tools to lead the design process, and the promotion of a wider understanding and practice of community led design.

He is also an accredited Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Client Design advisor: a role that provides wider strategic guidance for clients, and a former recipient of a RIBA Rome Scholarship in Architecture and Urbanism at the British School at Rome.

Matthew Lloyd

Matthew established Matthew Lloyd Architects (MLA) in Shoreditch, East London (early 1990s), having previously worked for Skidmore,

Owings & Merrill (SOM) in London and Chicago.

MLA is recognised for sensitive, innovative and contextual architecture. Current projects include: the redevelopment of the Grade II Listed Bourne Estate for London Borough of Camden; HS2: replacement housing on the Regent’s Park Estate, Camden; new residential blocks, and community facilities on the Frampton Park Estate, Hackney. Notable recent projects include the refurbishment of the Grade I Listed Royal Society of Arts: Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London Award, RIBA English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment; and a mixed-use development at St Mary of Eton Hackney Wick: winner of a RIBA National Award, a Housing Design Award, and New London Awards (NLA) in 2015.

Matthew’s expertise is centered on urban/suburban regeneration, with a particular emphasis on housing/community provision. With substantial experience of working with multiple stakeholders, to achieve complex planning consents and delivering successful schemes for clients and communities, he is a member of RIBA, and has served as a judge for the RIBA Awards, the Camden Design Awards, and the Hackney Design Awards.

Jane Lock-Smith

Jane established cube_design (2002), having gained over 25 years of professional experience.

She has worked on many major projects, including Silverstone for the last 15 years in the development of their whole site masterplan; and is leading an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a new heritage facility. Jane completed the flagship Phase 1 Academic building at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus (2014), having completed their overall campus masterplan and achieved permission of an Outline Planning Application. Both are extremely complex in terms of planning, and involved liaison with a large number of Statutory Consultees. Jane has been part of numerous major advisory bodies, including the Royal Institute of Briitish Architects (RIBA) Client Design Advisor, Home Office, Department for Education and Employment (DFEE) and Education Funding Agency (EFA). With experience as a RIBA Client Design Advisor, she recently sat on Design Review Panels for various local authorities.

Jane has been involved with the design of buildings in all sectors and is passionate about delivering high-quality architecture. Her experience working for a major planning practice, has informed her architectural expertise and provides an added level of experience. Jane is currently assisting with Bristol and Cardiff University courses.


Hana Loftus

Hana is co-director of Essex-based architecture practice: HAT Projects, which she co-founded with Tom Grieve (2007); after previous roles at

General Public Agency (now Publica) and Haworth Tompkins. HAT Projects are best known for their cultural and public buildings, including the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings (Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award and Civic Trust Award); and a specialism in creative industries workspace, that has developed through High House Artists’ Studios (RIBA Award), and the recently completed Gasworks gallery and studio complex.

Hana is active in her local community as well as for national initiatives: a board member for Dance East; Roman River Music; and the Creative Colchester Board; a panel member for Design South East’s design review panel and a frequent contributor to journals/publications, including most recently a book on artists’ studio provision with Acme and Central St Martins.

Ian Lomas

Born in Manchester (1967), Ian studied architecture at Sheffield University, completing his Diploma (1991) with Distinction, and

moved to Berlin. He worked in local Manchester offices on school and university projects and in Berlin, was project architect at Bender Glas for two competition-winning schemes, before working for Foster and Partners (1994-2000), on the Reichstag project.

Ian has worked on wide ranging projects, from the More London masterplan to the expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Senior partner at Kohn Pedersen Fox (2000 - 2005), he delivered a 500,000 sqft mixed use building for Hines in Duesseldorf; and apartment building on Davies Street, Mayfair for Capital and City; headed the Hammerson team for their City sites; and prepared the cross-body City-Fringe framework.

Since joining Make (2005), Ian has designed and completed the London and Regional Properties (L&R) 55 Baker Street project; Rodmarton Street mews housing and two large private houses; achieved permission for Hammerson’s London Wall Place; won the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) competition for the Brighton Centre; and been design architect for international teams in Sydney/Las Vegas. He has also worked intensively with Lambeth and Newham on planning briefs, masterplans and project development.

Roger Lomas

Roger is a practicing Urban Designer and Chartered Landscape Architect with some 20 years experience in both fields. He is entrepreneurial in his

approach to projects and thinks outside the constraints of his profession.

Roger has experience across housing, retail, employment and town centre based projects and studies, and has won awards for his approach to community engagement and design. He is currently working on the Cheshire East Residential Design Guide for Cheshire East Council; a number of strategic housing led masterplans for both House Builders/Strategic Land Developers, and retail schemes for Lidl’s ‘special’ projects.

Roger has been appointed by Barratt Manchester to provide Building for Life 12 (BfL12) advice and assessments on a project by project basis, and will be a member of the Cheshire East Design Review Panel when instituted.


Phil Lomax

Phil established the City Wildlife Project before becoming the first Nature Conservation Officer at Leicester City Council (1987). He

co-ordinated the production/implementation of the Leicester Ecology Strategy, winning the British Council of Nature Conservationists Councils for Wildlife Award. Member of the UK Man and Biosphere Committee’s Urban Forum; founder member of the Association of Local Government Ecologists; described in Natural England’s magazine Urbio (2006), as a “mastermind...whose work...put Leicester at the forefront of urban nature conservation”.

At Eastleigh Borough Council he was Head of Countryside and Recreation (2000), directing the production/implementation of the Sport and Recreation, and Parks and Green Spaces Strategies, putting Eastleigh in the top 10 areas in England for public satisfaction rating,s before establishing his own consultancy Green Dimensions (2008). His work includes feasability research for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) into incorporating biodiversity offsetting into the English planning system. At Partnership for Urban South Hampshire he was Green Infrastructure Coordinator (2010-11), producing a Green Infrastructure Implementation Plan.

Part time lecturer in Environmental Planning on the BSc Wildlife and Conservation Management course at Sparsholt College, Hampshire (2011). He joined Thomson Ecology as a Principal Ecologist (2013), managing projects including Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations Assessment.

Tim Long

Tim is a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and Town Planner who has worked for over 20 years creating best practice transport

and public realm designs in some of the most complex parts of central London and in rural areas.

He designed Great Queen Street which was the first scheme in the UK to remove traffic signals, explain how to design shared space and create an inclusive environment, and involved designing innovative new street furniture that are best practice in reducing anti-social behavior, simplifying cleaning and inclusive design, and as a result this increased land values by up to £26 million annually. Tim also helped to masterplan the regeneration of the Somer’s Town area to create new residential and school buildings, parks and streets and he identified a more efficient layout that released more space and created a significant new development site.

Tim is a consultant for the City of London, a design advisor for Merton Borough Council, advises on planning applications, and has won over ten awards and best practice commendations for his work and has written several articles about his designs that led to creating a new design theory (the Smarter Streets approach).

Tom Lonsdale

Tom trained is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 40 years’ experience at senior management level, broadening his range of professional

activities into urban design, masterplanning and strategy formulation.

Chief Landscape Architect for Manchester City Council (1975-1989), prior to establishing and managing Camlin Lonsdale Landscape Architects, (1989-2008). His extensive work for Design Council and CABE has increased the opportunity to operate outside the confines of his own profession, and influence design quality on a much larger and more strategic scale, through design review and enabling. Success in these areas led him into similar roles in the regions, serving on and especially chairing design review panels (Northwest; Yorkshire; North East; Olympic Legacy; Humber; East of England; Barnsley; West Midlands, and Wakefield). Retiring from Camlin Lonsdale (2008) to concentrate on this range of activities in a more flexible freelance capacity, including design advisor roles for the public sector, he also works collaboratively with Artists in place-specific projects.

Tom has maintained regular contact with education, both by lecturing and as external examiner, has served as a Lottery Assessor and lectured widely at conferences and seminars in UK and overseas.


Emma Luddington

Emma is an independent Inclusive Design Consultant and Architect, offering advice on the design/management of inclusive

environments. She has practiced for 15 years as an Inclusive Design Consultant (formerly Access Consultant) and is passionate about the creation of buildings that are well designed, or look good, perform well and, in particular, that meet the needs of users, now and in the future. Emma works part time as a freelance Inclusive Design Consultant and part time as Inclusive Design Officer in the Planning Policy team at Islington Borough Council. In both capacities she regularly delivers training to a wide audience, from designers to Town Planners, from post graduates to a focus group of disabled residents. Interest in user needs and designing inclusively began during her training as an Architect (1990’s), was complemented by 8 years’ practical experience of working as an Architect (designing public/private buildings, and open space), and 15 years as an Access/Inclusive Design Consultant.

Emma’s understanding/knowledge of inclusive design has been further informed by personal experience of physical disability. She has been able to use her architectural training and years of practicing as an Architect, to inform the profession that she now chooses.

John Lyall

John has been a leading architectural practitioner for more than 30 years, as Alsop & Lyall (1979-1991), as John Lyall Architects (1991-

2011) , currently as Lyall, Bills & Young.

He has received many awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Civic Trust and other bodies, with work ranging from rail stations (North Greenwich: shortlisted for the Stirling Prize) to urban regeneration schemes, such as: The Mill on Ipswich Waterfront; numerous successful projects on Cardiff Bay. Historic renovations of classic buildings (the Corn Exchange and White Cloth Hall, Leeds) had a significant effect on the renaissance of the city centre.

Recently John received great acclaim for his four pumping stations on the London Olympic site. Other successes include: the Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich and the Goldsmiths Centre,Clerkenwell. Serving on Design Review panels for many years (Cardiff Bay; Southampton; CABE; Peterborough and Kent); Client Design Adviser (British Library); enabler for schools/courthouses, he has written articles/reviews for architectural journals/books; has a published monograph on his work: “John Lyall. Contexts and Catalysts” (2000); teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is external examiner at Greenwich University. John has served on the councils of RIBA and Architects Association (AA).

Kelda Lyons

Kelda is a playwork professional. She has been doing playwork and play development work for over ten years, and writes about children’s play

and playwork. Kelda has designed, built, modified and managed play environments.

She has done outreach and inclusion work for play organisations, and specialises in developing and adapting play environments to make them more interesting, inclusive and accessible. Kelda developed a pilot inclusion project at Glamis Adventure Playground, modifying the physical environment and access, staff practice, and administrative systems, so that children with disabilities could attend, supported by non-intrusive adult supervision.

Kelda has recently supported Thomas Buxton Primary School, East London into making use of their existing and newly developed school grounds areas, for extended play opportunities, outdoors learning, and a camp-fire club. She has led workshops on play and playwork at local/international conferences, and done knowledge sharing, or consultancy work, as a Built Environment Expert, and for Play England. Kelda has current understanding of how children move around, use, access, and feel about the places they inhabit. This first hand knowledge, gained from working directly with children can inform built environment professionals about what children and families need from newly designed spaces.


Paul Maccabee

Paul is a programme manager with particularly strong experience of delivering education and public realm projects, over a 25

year period. Originally trained and practiced as a landscape architect in the private and public sectors, before moving to a commissioning role in physical regeneration where he developed masterplans and delivered community facilities in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

As Building Schools for the Future Director for Manchester City Council, he led the multi-disciplinary team that secured and delivered the Wave 4 programme, consisting of 11 schools (total value: £156m). Paul led on negotiations with headteachers to secure deliverable design solutions. His primary interest lies in the developmental stages of projects up to planning consent, with a particularly strong focus on sensitive stakeholder management to secure robust design decisions.

Recently, he led on the development and early delivery phases of a £45m masterplan for Beswick, East Manchester. This project involved a diverse range of stakeholders, comprising a sixth form college, a leisure centre and sports institute; all set within a high quality public realm environment which included contemporary sculpture. Paul now works for the University of Manchester, helping to deliver their £1bn Campus Masterplan.

Gerard MacCreanor

Gerard established Maccreanor Lavington architects (1992) with Richard Lavington. Maccreanor Lavington established

a new company: MLA+ with Markus Appenzeller (2012).

In addition to the existing London and Rotterdam offices, a third office in Shanghai was opened (2012), in response to the increasing work in emerging international markets. Gerard has extensive experience in residential; hotel; retail; mixed-use projects; large-scale masterplans, and urban regeneration projects, in both the UK and Netherlands.

He is the Director in charge of the growing portfolio of urban design commissions, for which the office received the Masterplanner of the Year, Architect of the Year Awards (2009).

Euan MacDonald

Euan is a partner at Hawkins\Brown and leads a team of 20 architects and designers, working on a range of projects across the education,

residential and cultural sectors.

He has particular experience in managing complex briefs and leading design teams. Many of Euan’s projects have involved the conversion, alteration or complete remodeling of existing buildings, including listed buildings within conservation areas. Recent projects include the award-winning Corby Cube and Stoke Newington Town Hall; together with a series of projects for University College London, including the design of the new home for The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Euan has taught and lectured at a number of schools of architecture including The Bartlett; University of the Arts; Cardiff University and Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, and has just joined the London Borough of Harrow Design Review Panel. His critical and enquiring approach means that he rarely takes things at face value, always striving for a better solution to every problem.


Kelvin MacDonald

Kelvin is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge.

He is an examining inspector dealing

with major infrastructure projects for the Planning Inspectorate. Kelvin has dealt with a power station in Lincolnshire, and an off-shore windfarm in Morecombe Bay. Member of the Board of Trustees of Shelter and a member of the Committee of Shelter Scotland; he is also a member of the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Planning Sounding Board. Kelvin has been a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee, having worked on that Committee’s 2011 and 2014 Inquiries into the National Planning Policy Framework. Previously, Chief Policy Adviser to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).

He writes and talks on planning, having recently delivered the keynote address at the Oxford Planning Law Conference, and edited the Interface section of the RTPI Centenary edition of Planning Theory and Practice. A ‘Distinguished Professional’ Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, and a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, he is named in Planning magazine’s list as one of the 100 most influential people in planning.

Kathy MacEwen

Kathy is an independent consultant planner with 25 years’ experience of improving design quality through the

planning process. She worked as a planner in local government in Camden and Hackney with experience of policy, development management, and design and conservation.

Kathy developed Design Awards in Camden and Hackney, and worked on embedding design quality within the planning service. She joined CABE in 2005, managing the Design Review programme. Her role changed as she developed her CABE planning work with training and support packages for the public and private sector, that continued at the Design Council. Kathy developed and led the programme of workshops on Local Plans, and the publication of Planning for Places. She also led the development and launch of Active by Design in 2014.

Since leaving the Design Council, Kathy has provided training and facilitation on design and plannin; advice on design policy documents, and been a judge at the Landscape Institute awards.

Alex MacLaren

Alex is a UK Chartered Architect and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, based in Edinburgh.

Her practice, Wyatt MacLaren LLP, is a design-led partnership, working generally with community/faith groups. Recent completed design projects include: a new £1.5m church in Camberwell, London. The practice enjoys an ongoing relationship, spanning several buildings over 20 years, with the Bromley-by-Bow Centre: a pioneering socially-motivated/community-led initiative in East London. Alex splits her time between professional practice at Wyatt MacLaren LLP and an Assistant Professor role at Heriot-Watt University. Her research interests are in built-environment cross-disciplinary collaboration, and training the future industry. She co-chairs the construction training initiative charity: ‘TEAMBUILD’, now as Director of Education. In recognition of her work in cross-disciplinary professional education, Alex was selected to join the national cross-industry Construction Industry Council, Building Information Modelling (CIC BIM 2050) Panel, setting the industry agenda for future practice. She is an examiner for the Architects’ Registration Board and external examiner at the University of Greenwich.

Recently asked to join the board of the Baltic Street Adventure Playground (BSAP): a community-led community interest company, enabling adventure play, with children in Glasgow. She sits on the City of Edinburgh Urban Design Panel


Roger Madelin

After 5 years working for a National Building Contractor, Roger entered the development world (1985), by joining an ‘innovative’ developer

based in Basingstoke. He then joined Argent (1987), becoming Development Director (1988); and for the next 9 years, led all of Argent’s development projects, in the City of London; the Thames Valley and Brindleyplace, Birmingham.

Roger became CEO (1997), and led the business into several developments in the centre of Manchester, to becoming the developer for 67 acres of land between and to the north of King’s Cross and St. Pancras Stations. He was joined by a long term colleague as Joint Chief Executive (1997). Argent restructured to become a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) in 2012, and Roger stepped down from new business, to concentrate on the increasing pace of delivery at King’s Cross.

He retired from the Argent LLP (2015,) and whilst retaining a consultancy role for Argent at King’s Cross, joined the Executive Committee of British Land to lead their 46 acre proposed development at Canada Water, SE16. Roger was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007 for Services to Sustainable Development and currently sits on the Delivery Board of Tate Modern Two.

Ali Mangera

Ali studied Structural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Leeds, before completing a Master’s degree at Pennsylvania State

University (1990).

He undertook sabbaticals at The University of Bordeaux III, France and The University of Perugia, Italy studying French, Italian and Economics. Ali then studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London completing his Diploma (1996). He has worked at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM’s) Chicago office and at Zaha Hadid (1996-2001), where he managed the early stages the National Museum of the 21ST Century Arts (MAXXI) Centre, Rome. Ali left Zaha Hadid to undertake his own work with Ada Yvars Bravo. Ali and Ada formally registered Mangera Yvars Architects [MYAA] in 2007; a Director at MYAA with responsibility for project analysis and rethinking design. In a few short years, MYAA has won several awards including 40 under 40, and Young Architect of the Year Award (YAYA) runner up. Major projects followed including a University Campus, Qatar; commissions for a Community Centre in the UK, and residential/commercial projects in Spain/the Middle East.

Ali was appointed onto the Board of Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS), 2006-2010, where he worked on the Design Review panel, and as part of the sustainability group.

Fred Manson

Trained as an architect, Fred moved into public sector management where he oversaw planning, property management,

regulation services and environmental management for Southwark Council.

He oversaw the development of Tate Modern, the millennium bridge, and Peckham Library (1986-2001). Currently Associate Director at the Heatherwick studio, where he is engaged in most projects undertaken in this creative studio. Fred has participated in planning matters as a result of his work at Southwark, although he has no formal planning qualification. Member of the national CABE design review panel; co chair of school review panels and panel member on many Local Development Framework (LDA) reviews. In a personal capacity he has spoken at international events on a wide variety of subjects relating to the built environment.

Fred has been a trustee of a number of organisations ranging from Artangel to Foundation for Allergy Research and Open City.


Edward Marchant

Before joining Bennetts Associates (2006) Edward had studied and worked in Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

He trained as a structural engineer and architect, acquiring design skills, which embrace multi-disciplinary working. Over the past 9 years Edward has worked on the winning competition entry for the new humanities division and library at the University of Oxford; the highly sustainable Hampshire County Council headquarters; a residential development in north London; the design of a series of surface Crossrail stations for Grip 4, and the development of an exemplar HQ office building in the Green Belt, Kings Langley.

Currently, he is leading the transformation of the Grade II listed Midland Goods Shed; East Handyside Canopy behind King’s Cross, London, and the design of the Guardian’s new civic space inside. Studies include: Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, Amsterdam/Rotterdam, Netherlands, (1997); University of Ghent, Belgium, ‘Burgerlijk Ingenieur Architect’, BA Sc and Architecture, (1993) and Ma Sc and Architecture (Hons), (1995).

Graham Marshall

Graham’s interest in placemaking began at Morecambe Bay, where a juxtaposition of urban cultures, landscapes and transience led to

studying landscape architecture and urban design. Design Team Leader at the National Garden Festival Wales (1991), transforming Europe’s largest redundant steelworks into parkland, he also delivered groundbreaking public realm projects including the Ashford Ring Road and Kensington High Street (1990s); contributed to key policy documents By Design, and the Urban Design Compendium. Founding Director of Liverpool Vision Urban Regeneration Company (1999), responsible for the delivery of the award winning city centre Strategic Regeneration Framework. Establishing Maxim Urban Design (2004), he changed focus to towns/communities; concurrently Urban Design Advisor to the London Development Agency, contributing to 10: Town Centre Intensification Options for North London: the guide to Commissioning Better Places and Spaces in London; and developed an Urban Design Sight Planning and Design (SPD) for the Greater London Authority (GLA). He is a member of several regional Design Review Panels.

Graham established the Prosocial Place Programme (2013) with academic colleagues in Liverpool and Middlesex Universities, to address issues of toxic environments and seeking evidence to support the development of resilient communities. He has transformed Maxim into a social enterprise, Prosocial Place, to implement this research.

Steve Maslin

Steve provides design advice around people’s needs; a Chartered Architect since 1992 and member of the National Register of

Access Consultants since 2003.

He has a diverse and varied experience, having worked not only within architectural practice, but also within Shelter, a housing association and local authority. Steve has also worked with people with learning difficulties for social services, and voluntarily within re-entry housing and youth projects. He has advised Bristol regarding its city centre alterations, and a new company called Initiative Homes. His project involvement however, is wide ranging and includes: urban realm and transport interchanges; housing and communities; primary, secondary, tertiary and specialist education; civic and ecclesiastical; health, day care and supported housing; industrial and commercial; retail, leisure and sport; hospitality and entertainment; as well as judicial/custodial.

He emphasizes the importance of bringing systems thinking to brief development, design in use and social-economic and environmental sustainability. Steve is a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, a member of the Building Research Establishment Global’s Standing Panel of Experts and participant in several British Standards Institute committees; advising on facilities management standards and leading efforts towards the establishment of Design for the Mind guidance within built environments.


Selina Mason

Selina is a master/architect experienced in commissioning/delivery of complex urban masterplans, having led on the design/delivery of

London’s post Games Transformation masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).

She coordinated the detailed design of private sector investments on development platforms within the park. Before joining the London Development Agency (LDA) Design (2014), Selina led the Olympic Games Transformation masterplan: a £300 million investment in the park/venues, establishing the strategic spatial framework for the future park legacy development. Since secondment to the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), she has led on the adaptation of the masterplan to integrate further post-Games investment; including that of the retained stadium into the park with all consequential issues relating to licensing/security; managing the design competitions/delivery of the new South Park landscape, (2014), and the award winning north park pavilion. Before joining the ODA (2007), Selina was Director of Design Review at CABE. She led on providing strategic advice to Central Government on national planning policy reform to deliver high quality outcomes, particularly in house-building.

She also led a significant internal change process to create a more open and accountable methodology of design review. Co-author of CABE’s publications: Creating Excellent Buildings and Creating Successful Masterplans.

Peter Maxwell

Peter is a chartered architect, town planner and urban designer, with fifteen years senior level experience, he has led the

implementation of major projects, programmes and best practice to a consistently high standard in the UK, Middle East and New Zealand.

Peter has extensive client side experience which includes building design; masterplanning; design management; regeneration; housing; public transport; healthcare; education; arts and culture projects within private sector, local and central government. This has included acting as the urban design client for a $2.4bn new rail infrastructure project which included significant residual land development. Currently, Head of Design for the London Legacy Development Corporation, leading the architecture, masterplanning and public realm for the redevelopment of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This includes ‘Olympicopolis’: a new cultural and university quarter for Stratford, and the development of new mixed-use neighbourhoods.

Peter has acted as a design review panel member for the London Borough of Islington and the Department of Health, and provided expert advice for design policy and research projects for both UK and New Zealand government departments.

Gail Mayhew

Gail is a property consultant with wide ranging experience in placemaking, strategic development planning and high

street regeneration, and has practiced as a consultant for 18 years.

Following a legal training, she has worked in a variety of roles in property, policy development and consultancy. Gail has considerable experience of working with land and property interests, and local authorities to develop innovative approaches to infrastructure and land release planning, to achieve mixed use, sustainable infill and urban extensions. She helped to develop Liverpool’s ‘Creative Industries Quarter’; is a co-promoter of ‘How Should Norfolk Grow?’: an initiative to consider how growth might be delivered on a smart, sustainable basis. She is working in a placemaking capacity on a major partnership land release to create a new London urban village, and was retained to advise the Norwich Business Improvement District (BID) on a high street regeneration project, to establish a quality retail offering.

Gail is working with parish councils and land interests to develop innovative approaches to village and market town growth proposals, that are sympathetic to context and economically driven. She sits on the advisory board of University of East Anglia’s Adapt (UEA/Adapt), part of the Centre for Built Environment.


Declan McCafferty

Declan joined Grimshaw (2001) as Project Architect on the Lloyds TSB headquarters at 25 Gresham Street, City of London.

He played a key role in many of the practice’s commercial projects such as the Minerva Tower, the St Botolph’s Building, and the Paddington Triangle Over Site Development project for Crossrail. As a Partner at Grimshaw, Declan has a developed a keen interest in urban design, leading the master plan proposals at Victoria Terminus Place, Barking Station and Belfast City Quays. He has had a central role in expanding and consolidating Grimshaw’s work in the rail sector, playing a vital part in winning and leading both the Reading and London Bridge Station projects. Declan led the master plan for Waterloo station, and is currently Partner in Charge of the High Speed 2 (HS2) redevelopment proposals for London Euston.

He is a recognised industry leader in the master planning, design and delivery of transport interchanges and associated development. Declan has written Transport for London’s (TfL’s) design guidance for station public realm, and the 2015 railway stations chapter of the Metric Handbook.

Jo McCafferty

Jo McCafferty has been a Director at Levitt Bernstein, Dalston, since 2006 and has led a series of high profile, significant

regeneration projects in London and Cambridge. She is currently leading the Aberfeldy New Village masterplan in Poplar: a phased regeneration project, which includes the development of 1,176 mixed tenure new homes; a landscaped park; community and faith centres; retail units and a primary care trust (PCT).

Alongside this high density urban project, Jo has completed the design for the Clay Farm masterplan in Cambridge, as part of the Southern Fringe urban extension in the south of the City. She has a passion for housing design and the development of innovative new residential typologies.

Her expertise in this area has led to numerous competition winning schemes and awards, including the Islington Housing Competition for an exemplar, Islington specific, housing model which completed on site in February 2015, and has won a string of awards, including Best Small Building of the Year; Building Awards 2015, and Housing Design Award 2013. Her experience in teaching and design review role, within Levitt Bernstein also reflects her ability to steer and refine design concepts, and analyse the work of others.

Martin McConaghy

Martin has been working in the field of inclusive design and access consultancy almost exclusively since 2001, having trained originally as a

Building Surveyor. A specialist, his experience spans most sectors, including financial services providers; museums; education; transport and healthcare. Martin has built a strong reputation for being objective and well balanced in the delivery of his advice, as well as helping to initiate a deeper organisational and attitudinal change.

Committed to inclusive design, he serves on various boards/committees, including the National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC); the Access Association; Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) inclusive environments working group, and British Standards committees. A consultant member of the NRAC, he holds an MSc in Accessibility and Inclusive Design.

Career wise, Martin established Atkins in house access consultancy services (2005), going from no offering to one of the largest teams in the country in four years. He founded Inclusive Design and Access Consultancy Services: IDACS (UK) Ltd. (2013), to offer the high calibre advice of global consultancies, with the attentive and personal touch of a small practice. He is passionate about working with clients to help them understand the benefits of inclusive design and the risks associated with getting it wrong.


Jane McElroy

Jane is a chartered architect who has spent the greater part of 30 years, focusing on the design of healthcare buildings.

As a Principal with global firm NBBJ, she brings a broad international perspective to UK healthcare projects. These involve a range of scales and complexity, urban, suburban and rural settings, and a variety of procurement routes. Current projects include the Royal Liverpool University Hospital redevelopment, which is both transforming healthcare and regenerating the city of Liverpool. By contrast, the Acute Hospital for Dumfries and Galloway addresses the challenges of a large development in a rural setting, by creating contemporary vernacular architecture within a richly landscaped campus plan.

Through these and earlier projects, Jane has gained extensive experience of initial briefing, stakeholder consultation, design review and clinical planning, and the integration of these aspects within the broader design concept. She believes that the clarity and legibility of healthcare buildings greatly contribute to an uplifting patient and staff environment, and is a strong advocate of the power of design to enhance human performance, experience and outcomes. Jane has been a member of the Executive Committee of Architects for Health since 2008 and strongly promotes design quality in healthcare environments.

Sue McGlynn

Sue is an urban designer with 30 years’ experience of practice, teaching and research in settlement design.

For many years, she was a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture, and co-Chair of the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University. With colleagues at the Joint Centre, Sue co-authored the seminal design text: Responsive Environments: A manual for designers, for which she received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Urban Design Group (2012). Sue has been an independent consultant and enabler since 2006, and has extensive experience of design training; public speaking and presentation; community engagement and facilitation. She became Executive Director of TransForm Places (2008), the not-for-profit Centre for Better Neighbourhoods, based in the South Midlands.

Recent work has included: assessments of the quality of the built environment of three London estates for Circle Housing; urban structure studies of three towns for the North Northants Joint Planning Unit to secure connections between existing towns and planned urban extensions; and, together with a team from the Design Centre OPUN, run week-long consultation events to develop town centre regeneration strategies with two local communities in North East Derbyshire.

Nigel McGurk

Nigel BSc (Hons) Master of City Planning (MCD) Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Member of the Royal Town Planning

Institute established the consultancy Erimax – Land, Planning and Communities in 2011 to provide independent land/planning advice to clients throughout the UK.

Head of Planning for the Blenheim Estate, (including Blenheim Palace World Heritage Site), he provides advice on land/planning matters. he is a member of the Wesleyan Assurance Medical Sickness Society (MSS) Fund Committee and Non-Executive Director of the Himor Group. Nigel is one of the country’s most experienced Neighbourhood Plan Examiners and also a Planning Inspector, having determined over 500 planning appeals across England, and helped the States of Jersey establish a new planning appeals system. An accomplished public speaker, he presents regularly on land, planning and development matters.

Nigel is a member of the Oxford Design Review Panel, Integreat Plus Design Review Panel and Vice Chair of Places Matter!. A founding Board Member of the Altrincham Forward public-private partnership, he has chaired/been a member of other partnerships/cross sector bodies. Previously Managing Director of a major development PLC and Director of an innovative housebuilding PLC, he created a successful national strategic land business before selling his shareholding to invest in the creation of Erimax.


Kieran McMahon

Kieran was self employed and self taught for many years, having travelled internationally in the music production

business. He went to college (1991) to study social work and took up a job in mental health.

Beginning as a family worker, he eventually headed a 64 strong department with projects all over England. He became Director at Disability Stockport (2003), where design started to become more relevant and necessary to his field of work. Kieran no longer carries out full access audits, as previously there was a large gap in the market for this. Now, his job centres more on training, awareness and consultation.

He manages a staff team of 24, and over 50 volunteers, and is now seeking an additional challenge. Kieran has a passion for design in all forms and constantly looks for new ideas and technology to utilise and foster.

Fin McNab

A qualified Urban Designer, Fin brings over 15 years of experience in the field of community engagement, street design and

regeneration, spanning the public, private and charity sectors. During this time, he has built up a wealth of technical knowledge and in particular, extensive practical experience of achieving innovative ‘retro-fit’ street design.

Fin is founding director of Streets Reimagined Ltd., a small practice focused on working with local people to improve the experience of the street environment. Prior to this, he held a senior position at the sustainable transport charity: Sustrans, where he developed and led a national programme of work, empowering communities to reimagine and redesign streets.

An expert in street design for liveability, Fin has spoken at national conferences and written for the Guardian newspaper on the subject. He is also experienced in developing regeneration strategies for local shopping streets, and has a track record of writing successful funding applications. Drawing on this breadth of experience, Fin is well placed to positively contribute to projects which aim to deliver people friendly street design proposals.

Stephen Melville

Stephen is a Structural Engineer and Director of Format. Formerly Design Director at Ramboll he established Format

as a studio that considers Engineering, geometry, digital optimisation, fabrication, research and education collectively, and as a bridge between science, art, architecture and design.

With 20 years of design experience, Stephen has led projects throughout the world across many different scales and typologies. Whilst at Ramboll, Stephen’s role was lead for Design and Technical Excellence in the UK. He created the Ramboll Computational Design (RCD) Team, a highly successful group dedicated to the research and application of digital techniques for building and masterplan design. He is a member of the Bristol Urban Design Forum; the Bristol Temple Quay review board; the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) visiting validation board, and was a member of the 2013 RIBA awards panel.

Stephen is a guest critic and lecturer at TU Delft School of Architecture, a Lecturer at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, and collaborator on the Architecture Association Active Matter course. He has published several papers on the subject of digital design in Engineering and Architecture, as well as a weekly column in Building Design magazine and many other press articles.


Conor Moloney

Conor is an urban designer and planner with a background in architecture; human geography; sustainability; urban research and design

education. He has over 20 years’ experience in the UK, Europe, West Africa and North America. He was lead urban designer for the 265 hectare Clonburris Strategic Development Zone in South Dublin, and has prepared Neighbourhood Plans for a number of English towns and cities, including Bradford, Tottenham and Smethwick. He is a past President of the Architectural Association of Ireland and a licentiate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

May Molteno

May graduated from Manchester University with a first class honours degree in economics, specialising in primary research and

social policy. She worked initially for Manchester and Salford Universities, researching innovative approaches to tackling deprivation.

May was co-ordinator of an environmental charity, Vale Royal Environment Network, where she worked to deliver sustainable community projects (1994-1998). May set up Pathways – a social research organisation that supports the development of high quality green spaces (1998). At Pathways, May designs, manages and delivers consultation, evaluation and engagement projects. Recent work includes: delivering the CABE Space Leaders programme for five years; training Spaceshaper Facilitators; undertaking national consultation for the Lakes to Dales Landscape Designation Project, on behalf of Natural England; evaluating the Lottery of the Lake District footpath repair programme, Fix the Fells.

May’s current work is focused on helping organisations create vibrant activity plans for Heritage Lottery Fund Bids. May is a highly skilled and innovative facilitator/trainer, known for her focused yet inclusive style. Fascinated with playful approaches to learning, she runs an outdoor primary school in a wood and is creating three natural play areas.

Paul Monaghan

A Director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), Paul is an internationally acclaimed architect. His work, developed through his studio’s

creative intelligence, is focused on redefining the built environment in both the UK and abroad.

Paul’s projects in the workplace, arts, education, residential and masterplanning sectors have all been recognised by numerous national and international awards. Since co-founding AHMM in 1989, Paul’s projects at all scales have been recognised as demonstrations of outstanding design, collaborative creativity, applied technology, research and sustainability. His current key projects include the Television Centre Masterplan; the new Scotland Yard headquarters for the Metropolitan Police; Blossom Street in east London; residential development at the Elephant and Castle; and Ruskin Square in Croydon. Paul is currently a visiting professor at two schools of architecture: The Bartlett (University College London) and Sheffield University.


Claire Mookerjee

Claire is a designer and urbanist, and currently Head of Urban Futures for Future Cities Catapult, London.

She has been dealing with issues of design quality in cities for nearly a decade; she previously worked on mobility and public life projects globally, for Gehl Architects in Copenhagen, as a consultant at Beyond Green and as a researcher at LSE Cities, part of the London School of Economics. Claire has also acted as a design consultant on a number of the UK’s largest urban developments. She has an MSc in City Design and Sociology from LSE.

Julie Morgan

Julie is an award-winning professional specialising in housing. With over 16 years’ experience as a chartered town planner, she is also a

qualified urban designer, with a Masters from Oxford Brookes University.

As Strategic Planning Manager at Miller Homes, she manages a portfolio of strategic land development projects throughout the Midlands and submits planning applications for residential schemes. Julie was invited to join the Miller Homes Corporate Responsibility Steering Group shortly after her appointment in 2012.

Previous roles have included local authority planning positions; capital works project management; establishing the West Midlands Design Review Service; development and regeneration consultancy; and setting up her own planning and design consultancy.

Current a member of the West Midlands RTPI Committee, Julie previously served on the RTPI General Assembly and as vice-chair of the RTPI Membership and Ethics Committee. She led a team that was awarded a Regional Commendation for the Most Transferrable Project by RegenWM in 2004 for a collaboration pilot between several local authorities and schools. In 2000 Julie was the inaugural international winner of the RTPI Young Planner of the Year award.

Sue Morgan

Sue has over 25 years’ experience of public realm consultancy, strategic management and project delivery.

She has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors in London and the south of England; she holds a BA Hons and Diploma in Landscape Design, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. Prior to founding her company, Around the Block, Sue held senior posts with London Borough of Southwark; Better Bankside Business Improvement District, Groundwork London; Building Services Research Information Association; Notting Hill and Southwark Urban Study Centres, giving her an outstanding understanding of place-making and stakeholder engagement. Currently a part time consultant Chief Executive for the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust, Sue is also a Director of the Park Alliance Board and a Trustee for the Bankside Open Space Trust. She is a Civic Trust Buildings and Landscape Awards Assessor, and was part of the first cohort of Cabe Space Enablers. Sue contributes to the Greater London Authority’s Green Infrastructure Task Force and is a member of the GLA’s Green Grid Steering Group.


Janice Morphet

Janice is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), has been a planner for 45 years and has degrees in sociology,

management, literature and a PhD in politics. Following a career in local government and higher education, she was a senior adviser on local government modernization at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), 2000-2005, and since 2007 has devised and supported infrastructure delivery planning as part of local plans.

Janice was a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) appointed member of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Planning Committee (2006-2012), and has been a trustee of the RTPI and the Town and Country Planning Association. Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, she has held senior posts including as local authority Chief Executive and Head of a Planning and Landscape School.

Member of the RTPI’s English Policy Panel, she has chaired committees at the RTPI since 1974. Her recent books are: Modern Local Government (2008), Effective Practice in Spatial Planning (2010), and How Europe Shapes British Public Policy (2013), Applying leadership and management in Planning (published 2015). Infrastructure delivery planning: an effective practice approach will be published in 2016.

Paul Murphy

Paul is a qualified architect with over 25 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors, working on a diverse range of projects

valuing from £80k to £80m.

He founded and runs his own practice in London, driven by his passion for design. Paul’s design experience includes masterplanning, new buildings and redeveloping existing buildings; he has particular expertise in the fields of healthcare and education. Both specialisms draw on Paul’s deep understanding of the subject and his desire to engage with multiple stakeholders who have a vested interest in the design and quality of the built reality. Key projects include: Kingston University; a major biomedical research and manufacturing facility; over 20 projects for University College London; and the masterplanning and a range of new healthcare facilities.

Paul has been Secretary of Architects for Health since 2011 and teaches at London South Bank University at diploma level and has been a visiting design studio critic since 2011. Other extra-curricular activities include involvement in the Open City Primary Schools Programme and in the replacement of Hammersmith flyover with a new tunnel, which is set to transform that part of London.

Deborah Nagan

Deborah is a multi-disciplinary designer specialising in landscape and public realm. She is a partner at naganjohnson

architects (founded 1999), and a director at (uncommon) landscape consultants.

Her experience ranges from masterplanning to detailed design; she has worked across the UK and abroad. Large scale project experience includes mixed use schemes in the Middle East including Abu Dhabi Corniche and Dubai Maritime; she is currently working on Crossrail schemes in Stepney and Limmo. Deborah has designed installations and small scale works for garden festivals in Amiens, Quebec and Westonbirt, as well as private and public residential schemes. She is active in the stewardship and design of projects close to her home and office at Waterloo in London, working for the local Business Improvement District, for whom (uncommon) are completing a Pocket Park. Deborah is a trustee of Bankside Open Spaces Trust, and vice-chair of the South Bank & Waterloo Neighbours (SoWN) Neighbourhood Plan.

Deborah has given lectures on a range of topics from sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) to installation design. Deborah has been a Cabe BEE since 2012. As an alumna of Oxford University and former geographer, she is delighted to be a member of the Oxford Design Review Panel.


Peter Neal

Peter is a qualified landscape architect, environmental planner and independent consultant with 25 years’ professional

experience. Initially trained at Manchester, he holds a Master’s in environmental planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a Diploma in ecology from University College London.

He has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors on planning, design, training, teaching and research projects. Formerly Head of Public Space at CABE, Peter established and led the organisation’s national public space advisory programme for over seven years. He was seconded part-time to the Olympic Delivery Authority for three years, providing design advice for the development of the Olympic Park and co-authoring a book on the project. Peter is a recognised expert in the planning, design, funding and management of public parks and open spaces. He was commissioned by Nesta, the national innovation foundation, to write the research report Rethinking Parks, and authored The State of UK Public Parks for the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Peter is a member of the South and East Design Panel, a project mentor for the Heritage Lottery Fund; a member of the Land Trust’s Development Partner Panel, and a Fellow of the Landscape Institute.

Pauline Nee

Pauline began her career campaigning with residents on housing and public realm issues in London’s King’s Cross area.

This experience inspired her to study for a technical qualification. Having worked in Islington’s architectural department she moved to Southwark, where she was appointed as Borough Architect and Building Surveyor, leading a multi-disciplinary unit of over 100 staff. Southwark Building Design Service prided itself on being a leading proponent of public sector design, winning the Royal Institute of British Architects/CABE London Local Authority of the Year Award and a number of design awards.

Pauline left Southwark to develop her interest in conservation. While studying at the Architectural Association she worked at the Tower of London, leaving there to head up John McAslan and Partners’ Historic Buildings Unit. Whilst there Pauline contributed to the successful implementation of a variety of projects, ranging from the Grade I Listed Kings Cross Station to reconstruction of the Iron Market in Haiti. She has a particular interest in accessible design and recently worked with Publica on public realm issues.

Justin Nicholls

Justin has over 20 years’ experience shaping the built environment, is a founding member of Make, and worked at Foster and Partners

for 11 years. His work focuses on designing complex buildings, often in sensitive contexts, facilitated by his analytical and disciplined approach.

Justin has led projects across multiple sectors including: the redevelopment of St James’s Market in Westminster for The Crown Estate; Pure Hammersmith student accommodation; the redevelopment of the former Bath Press; housing at Grosvenor Waterside, and a ‘Paragraph 55’ house in Oxfordshire. Justin has delivered numerous research facilities for the University of Oxford over 18 years. At Foster and Partners his work included the Albion Riverside residential development and Beijing Airport. He is a practice design tutor at The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Part 3 professional Examiner and a member of the Design South East and Southwark design review panels.

Justin has judged RIBA, New London Architecture and Civic Trust awards, and has contributed to research for the Construction Industry Research and Information Association and the British Standards Institution. He is a trustee of the Westminster Society, has an Oxford Preservation Trust award and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.


Robin Nicholson

Robin is senior practice partner at Edward Cullinan Architects, which he joined in 1979.

He has led wide ranging health and university projects, including 20 years working at the University of Warwick. Robin’s current positions include: convenor of the inter-disciplinary Construction Industry think tank The Edge; chair of the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel; board member of the National House Building Council; and chairman of NHBC Services Ltd. He was previously vice president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1992-1994), chairman of the Construction Industry Council (1998-2000) and founder member of the Movement for Innovation Board (1998-2001). Robin helped create and develop the Design Quality Indicator, was a CABE Commissioner (2002-10) and was Joint Deputy Chair of CABE (2008-10). He chaired the Zero Carbon Schools Task Force for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (2009-10). He trained at Cambridge and The Bartlett, was job architect for James Stirling’s Olivetti Training Centre (1970-73), then worked in Chile with Cristian Boza. He taught at The Bartlett (1974-76) and PNL London (1976-9). Robin was awarded a CBE for services to architecture in 1999 and an Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2002.

Geoff Noble

Geoff is an independent heritage and design consultant. A Geordie by birth but a Londoner by adoption, he has

more than thirty years’ professional experience with qualifications in planning, urban design and building conservation.

After working for local authorities in Tyne and Wear, Staffordshire and Hampshire, Geoff joined English Heritage in 1985 as one of their first recruits. He worked for ten years in the north of England before joining the London team, where he became Deputy Director. Geoff was secretary to the London Advisory Committee from 1995 to 2005, advising on many major development schemes across the capital.

Geoff joined Urban Practitioners - now Allies and Morrison Urban Practitioners - in 2005, and continues to work with them as their heritage adviser. Since 2006 Geoff has worked with Design South East, where he ran the Regional Design Panel for several years, and provided training for local authorities. He was commissioned by Design Council Cabe and professional institutes to write new national guidance on design review, published in 2013.

Geoff is a trustee of the Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, a well established and active west London charity.

Vanessa Norwood

Vanessa is head of exhibitions at the Architectural Association, one of the world’s most influential centres of architectural culture

and learning. She is one of the leading curators of architecture in the UK and has commissioned and curated a range of exhibitions that celebrate architecture in a wider context.

A pioneer of urban installations, Vanessa has overseen a series of temporary pavilions in Bedford Square. She was co-curator of the exhibition Venice Takeaway for the British Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in 2012, for which she asked 10 architectural teams to undertake study trips to find new ways to respond to the challenges of the relationships, policies and structures that surround architecture in Britain. First shown in Venice, the exhibition then travelled to the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. In 2015 Vanessa joined a panel of international experts advising the Albanian Government on a series of cultural competitions. She has contributed to publications, magazines and blogs on the subject of art and architecture, and is a guest critic at student juries.

Vanessa is interested in the effect of ‘cultural insertions’ in the city, examining the role of the artist and architect in provoking dialogue through the act of positively interrupting everyday life.


Peter Oborn

Peter is a Chartered Architect and client adviser with considerable experience of working internationally, particularly in the

Middle East where he has completed projects in Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

He was deputy chairman of Aedas Architects Ltd, responsible for its London office until 2010. He was also the director responsible for the redevelopment of Holland Park School in London and the design of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi - winner of an award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Peter founded the Aedas Research and Development group, which developed specialisms in sustainability, advanced modelling and computational design. This award-winning group helped to drive innovation throughout the practice, enabling new ways of problem solving and design. Peter is currently client adviser to the government of Oman for the development of a new city in the Muscat Capital Area.

He is a trustee of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He was elected RIBA Vice President International in 2011; in this role Peter and his Committee are working to raise the profile of the Institute and its members internationally.

Stephen O’Malley

Stephen is a civil engineer with 20 years’ experience in practice. He is a founding director of engineering consultancy Civic

Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transport. He has been involved in the development of a broad range of urban infrastructure projects across the country, advising on the strategic regeneration framework at New Islington in Manchester then leading on the detailed design and delivery of its canals, waterpark and public realm. Recently, Stephen led the design and delivery of the innovative high street renewal project at Poynton in Cheshire, which used a combination of place-led engineering techniques to positively transform the environmental quality of the town and rebalance its public space, successfully making it much more attractive to those not in vehicles.

He is a panellist for the Architecture and Design Scotland forum, is an active contributor to Tree Design Action Group: a national organisation promoting the incorporation of green and blue infrastructure into our urban landscapes. Stephen is a member of the Greater London Authority’s Specialist Assistance Team, advising on high street regeneration projects across the city.

David Orr

David is a Chartered Landscape Architect and urban designer with 30 years’ experience of design and advocacy in the fields of regeneration,

development, conservation and environmental improvement, in rural and urban areas.

He has held key roles on many complex urban design and public realm projects, including the reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square and the delivery of 3,500 new homes at Coed D’Arcy in South Wales. David sits on the Cornwall Design Review Panel. He regularly works with other multidisciplinary teams and has extensive experience facilitating both community and professional design workshops. Before founding David Orr Consulting in 2009, David was Technical Director at Mouchel where he formed and managed the urban design team. He previously worked with Alan Baxter and Associates, managing a range of masterplanning, research and urban design projects, after holding positions at WS Atkins and HLM Architects.

David has led and managed the preparation of numerous town centre strategies, mixed-use masterplans, housing schemes and public space design projects across the UK and overseas, many in historic towns or sensitive environments.


Valerie Owen

Valerie is a multi-disciplinary property professional, Chartered Architect, Town Planner, Development Surveyor and

Environmentalist. She runs a Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Practice: Le Vaillant Owen Consultancy, specialising in housing, heritage, regeneration and sustainable development projects.

Valerie has a portfolio of ministerial appointments and non-executive directorships in housing, health and the environment, which involve her in some of the largest and most complex construction projects being procured in the public sector. These include the £1.5 billion re-provision of Covent Garden Market at Nine Elms in London and the £400 million redevelopment of the Western Docks at Dover Port. Valerie has volunteered with Girlguiding UK for over 30 years, providing pioneering youth and community education services amongst disadvantaged and immigrant communities. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2001 for services to architecture and the community in east London, was appointed a Cabinet Office Ambassador for Public Appointments in 2009 and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Women in Construction Awards in 2015.

Valerie is wholly committed to promoting equality and diversity; she is passionate about both environmental issues and health and safety in construction.

Jason Palmer

Jason is an energy and sustainability specialist, working on sustainable buildings since 1998.

He led the team that developed DEMScot - Scotland’s domestic energy model - and the Cambridge Housing Model, used by the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change for national energy questions. Since 2006, Jason has advised the UK Government on energy and sustainability in relation to the built environment, including writing the UK Housing Energy Fact File. Jason has carried out post-occupancy evaluation of more than 30 schools, hospitals and offices.

Dominic Papa

Dominic has over 18 years’ experience in the design of large scale urban and architectural projects.

He is co-founder of S333 Architecture and Urbanism, an Anglo-Dutch practice. He works freely between the disciplines of architecture and urban design, and brings to the practice skills in conceptual design, strategic urban thinking and detailed design for major residential-led mixed use developments, schools and masterplans. Dominic is Professor in Practice in the Housing and Urbanism Programme at the Architectural Association and has led a research team exploring the contemporary conditions influencing the success or failure of intense forms of housing and urbanism in Britain.

Dominic is developing new initiatives in the Architecture of Innovation, including developing next generation mixed-use workspace neighbourhoods. This work is also being developed within the Communities of Competence for International Urban Development Association (INTA): the urban development forum. Dominic is a design review panel member for Cabe and for the West Midlands, is a member of the RIBA Housing Group advising on policy, has judged numerous international awards and competitions, has written articles for the international press and has contributed to TV debates in the UK, Netherlands and New Zealand.


Andrew Parsons

Andrew is an independent consultant specialising in green space issues, working indpendently or in partnership with

others. He has a thorough understanding of local authorities, having previously worked as a Head of Parks and Green Spaces at Oxford City Council. Andrew re-wrote the Green Flag Award scheme’s guidance manual “Raising the Standard” with Liz Greenhalgh in 2003, and led a review of the scheme for CABE Space in 2004, alongside Ken Worpole, Liz Greenhalgh and The Parks Agency.

An original member of CABE Space’s Advisory Panel, he contributed significantly to the work of both CABE and CABE Space, including undertaking a review of the campaign PARKFORCE and monitoring the performance of the Design Champions programme and the Green Flag Award scheme. Andrew was instrumental in the development of SPACESHAPER: a toolkit that allows communities to measure the quality of a public space before investing time and money in improving it.

Experienced at the procurement of grounds maintenance services, he led the re-tendering of Hounslow’s service in 2008. Recent work includes options appraisals for the future management of green space assets, including work for Guildford, Crawley and Swindon councils.

Dr. Tim Pascoe

Tim has been a community safety researcher for over 25 years, carrying out qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation,

investigating crime prevention and reduction issues, and exploring community-led solutions.

He has an international reputation in the field of designing out and managing out crime. Tim’s work, which has been carried out with bodies including community groups of all types, police forces, local authorities, government departments and businesses, has resulted in a body of publications that have added to national and international understanding of community safety problems and solutions. He regularly chairs and presents at conferences and seminars worldwide. Tim is a Director of: Catalyst in Communities; Community Coaching Academy; Griffin Research and Consultancy; the International Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Association, and the Institute of Community Safety.

He is chairman of the UK Design Out Crime Association; is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; sits on the advisory board of the Design Against Crime Centre, University of the Arts London; is an advisor to the UK government’s All-Party Parliamentary Child and Youth Crime Group; and serves as a trustee for Through Unity - a charity for homicide victims families - and for the Luton Rape Crisis Centre.

Pankaj Patel

Pankaj gained a first class honours degree from South Bank University, before working with Andrew Taylor at MacCormac Jamieson Prichard on

projects including: Worcester College in Oxford; Paternoster Square, adjacent to St Paul’s Cathedral; and London’s Spitalfields Development.

Pankaj was a consultant on various international masterplans before establishing Patel Taylor in 1989. His interests lie in the integration of architecture, landscape and urban design. He oversees the inception of many projects and has led the design of a broad range of masterplanning, architecture and landscape schemes. Pankaj is partner-in-charge of mixed-use and residential projects, where his expertise in negotiating complex planning consents has been critical. These include the London 2012 Athletes’ Village, White City and Southbank Place in London.

Pankaj has been a member of CABE’s design review panel; has advised the Government Office for London, Greater London Authority and Arts Lottery Design Panel; and has been an awards assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has been a member of the London 2012 design review panel and the Convoys Wharf design review panel in Lewisham. Pankaj has served as senior lecturer at South Bank University, external examiner at Sheffield University, visiting professor at the Welsh School of Architecture and visiting lecturer at Edinburgh University.


Mark Pearson

Mark is a designer, urbanist and educator with 23 years of practical experience in achieving and promoting good design, since he

qualified as an architect in 1992.

He was the second Director of the Architecture Centre in Bristol and later Head of Design South West, working with CABE and Creating Excellence to lead a comprehensive programme of design support in the region until 2011. Projects included a successful tenant-led housing regeneration project in Pill, North Somerset; the provision of national design training for the Planning Inspectorate; and the Spacemakers project, which enabled young people to act as clients for a new park in Bristol. Mark was design advisor for a strategic mixed-use site at Firepool, Taunton. He has advised and served on a number of local design review panels, and recently reformed the panel serving Cornwall.

Mark is currently Executive Director of Design Action Devon and Cornwall, and national chair of the Architecture and Built Environment Centre Network. He is Chair of the Cornwall Design Review Panel and Secretary to the Panel in Torbay. Mark is a trustee of Cornwall Architectural Trust and occasionally teaches at the University of Bath.

Andy Pennington

Andy is a research fellow at the Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool: a World Health Organisation

Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on Social Determinants of Health Inequalities. He is a qualified planner with 13 years’ experience in public health research, consultancy and teaching - focusing on health inequalities, community empowerment, health impact assessment and urban health.

Andy has dedicated his career to understanding the relationships between the physical environment and health/health inequalities. He develops and applies innovative approaches to identify and synthesise evidence from a wide variety of specialisms to inform decision-making.

Andy has extensive experience of applying evidence to practice, for example through health impact assessment. He has developed evidence and guidance that has informed debate and practice within the UK Parliament and the European Commission. Andy is committed to including individuals and communities in decisions about land use that may affect local lives for generations to come.

Ian Phillips

Ian is a chartered landscape architect and town planner working as a self-employed consultant, based in Farnham.

He has over thirty years’ experience working in the public, private and voluntary sectors, and in rural and urban environments, applying his planning expertise to landscape issues. His interests lie in policy; design briefs and guidance; green infrastructure; community engagement; and training events. Ian’s past projects include: the Thames Basin Heaths SPA Delivery Framework; contributions to BS5837 on Trees and Construction; the Elvetham Heath Development Brief; Landscape Institute position statements; and presentations to local, national and international audiences.

Ian is the elected Vice President of the Landscape Institute, which he represents on several external national and European bodies. He is also a nationally appointed member of the South Downs National Park Authority, where he serves on the Planning Committee.


Louisa Philpot

Louisa is an urban designer, environmental physicist and architectural designer with 18 years’ practice experience in

architecture and urban planning.

She has delivered vision and scoping studies; masterplanning projects; commercial office and residential architecture projects. Louisa was lead consultant for the Calne Vision and Calne Town Centre Masterplan, and has designed headquarters for Linden Homes in Bristol and London. Louisa is also a sustainability consultant who has contributed to the Welsh Assembly Government’s approach to adapting to climate change, funded by the Technology Strategy Board. A live project in Cardiff was used as the basis for the work, enabling a design code with adaptation design measures at urban design and architectural scales to be produced.

Louisa is an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, is part of the Town and Country Planning Association’s Spacial Futures Group, and assisted Green Capital in generating a planning sustainability assessment tool. She was part of Design Council Cabe’s Supporting Communities in Neighbourhood Planning programme and has contributed to the development of design review for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.

Steven Pidwill

Steven is Director and Chairman of Shepheard Epstein Hunter (SEH), specialising in architecture, planning and landscape

design. His experience includes preparing building proposals and masterplans for universities, schools, libraries, listed buildings and housing for both public and private sectors.

Steven leads SEH’s framework teams for schools, universities and Parliament. Projects include two masterplans for the University of Oxford; new housing in Hull; urban design and building projects for the University of Leicester over fourteen years; libraries at the universities of Liverpool and East Anglia; 21 school and youth projects across three London boroughs; a performing arts centre and sports facilities in a World Heritage Site for the Girls’ Day School Trust; improvements to the entrance of the House of Lords; and security, landscape and office transformation projects for the Parliamentary Estate.

Steven is chair of the Part III external examining panel at Cambridge University and has examined at The Bartlett (UCL) and at Nottingham University. He has written articles on sustainable housing; libraries; business schools; halls of residence; schools and listed buildings; and on play and sport for children. He is a qualified in application performance management and project management, has previously been a CABE enabler and wrote the CABE publication ‘New from old: transforming secondary schools through refurbishment’.

Sylvie Pierce

Sylvie created and managed Building Better Health, a successful development company, working in partnership with the

public sector; winning a number of awards, including Client of the Year; Health Design champion; Best Community Health building (twice); short-listed for Stirling award with Mossbourne Academy; and Civic Awards. Working with the UK’s most innovative architects in some of the most deprived areas, eg AHMM, Penoyre and Prasad, and Rogers Stirk Harbour, we tried to demonstrate the impact that design can have on the poorest communities.

Prior to creating a development company, Sylvie was Chief Executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. She is a regeneration adviser to the City of Bath; on the board and planning committee for London Thames Gateway, and chair of Governors at Mossbourne Academy. Director of a consultancy: Earth Regeneration, (established 2010), she is working with a number of clients commissioning new and innovative services and buildings.


Helen Pineo

Helen is an urban planner with eight years’ experience working in the UK and internationally.

She is currently the Associate Director for Cities at the Building Research Establishment, responsible for leading the research and development of new products and services for cities. Helen previously managed the 2012 revision of the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) Communities, making it the international standard of sustainable masterplanning. She has authored a number of publications and guidance documents on planning healthy and sustainable communities. As an experienced facilitator, speaker and trainer, Helen enjoys helping built environment professionals access and share knowledge to improve project outcomes. She worked as a consultant for the Planning Advisory Service and Local Government Association (2008-2011), supporting local authority planners and politicians; her main focus was policy development and leadership training in spatial planning, climate change, energy, health and sustainable design.

Helen is currently pursuing a doctorate degree at The Bartlett, University College London, researching how policy- and decision-makers use evidence relating to the built environment and health. She is an Associate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Member of the Construction Industry Council Diversity Panel.

Karl Pitman

Karl is a Chartered Engineer with 25 years’ experience. Graduating from Kingston University with a first class degree in Civil

Engineering, he worked for a number of international multi-disciplinary practices in the UK and Middle East before setting up his own practice in 2011.

Karl has a passion for sustainable engineering design and construction that has been developed through his involvement in projects such as the sustainable drainage scheme at Upton in Northampton: an early exemplar of a Sustainable Drainage System. He has used this experience to develop cost-effective solutions to ‘making space for water’ for large- and small-scale developments across the UK.

Karl is a strong advocate and practitioner of the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment Scheme and has played an active role in its implementation in the Middle and Far East. Using the Scheme as a design and management framework, he has supported consultants and contractors to develop practices aimed at achieving sustainable design and construction. Through his role as a non-executive director of a housing association with its own development programme, Karl has first-hand knowledge of the impact of design decisions on local communities.

John Plumridge

John is a chartered valuation and development surveyor and an architect with 25 years’ experience of large scale

development and estates management.

For Cabe, he has provided design quality support to clients in planning, masterplanning and schools sibnce 2001 and was a regional representative for the East Midlands between 2005 and 2008. John has been Director of the West Midlands English Partnerships Development Team, vice chair of the Leicester Regeneration Company and has overseen large scale mixed-use developments in Leicester - as Director of Estates at De Monfort University and Director of Estates and Commercial Facilities at the University in Lincoln.

His private sector experience was gained in private consultancy and through executive and non-executive directorships for Catesby Estates, Land Securities and P&O properties. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ panel of expert advisors to the Planning Inspectorate.


Neil Porter

Neil gained a first class degree in architecture at Newcastle University; he received a diploma with honours at the Architecture

Association in London in 1983 and subsequently tutored there from 1984 to 1989.

As one of the founding partners of Gustafson Porter, Neil takes an active involvement in the practice’s diverse range of projects and runs the London practice. His interests include architecture, design, landscape and urban planning. Neil has extensive experience in designing and executing high quality contemporary landscapes within complex climatic and historical contexts. Neil is currently working on projects with distinct demands and spatial contexts in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, each site requiring innovative and unique solutions. Together with Mary Bowman, Sibylla Hartel, Kathryn Gustafson and colleagues, Neil has led the practice’s defining projects, including the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial; Swiss Cottage Open Space; the Garden of Forgiveness and Shoreline Walk in Beirut; Bay East in Singapore, and the CityLife Park in Milan. Neil’s design for the Old Market Square in Nottingham received many prestigious awards.

Neil currently contributes to design review panels for Design Council Cabe; Crossrail; and Design South-East. He regularly takes part in national and international design juries and panels. Neil publishes and lectures internationally.

Richard Powell

Richard joined Grosvenor in 2014 as the executive director responsible for development activities outside Mayfair and

Belgravia, with specific focus on Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Southampton and London. He was previously director of planning and development at Capital and Counties Properties PLC. Prior to this he worked for Lend Lease, HM Treasury, KPMG and DTZ. Richard is a member of the Mayor of London’s Design Advisory Group, sits on the New London Sounding Board and chairs Cambridge Ahead’s board meetings.

Sunand Prasad

Sunand is co-founder of highly regarded architecture practice Penoyre and Prasad, named by Architects Journal as Sustainable Practice

of the Year in the AJ100 Awards in 2014.

The practice’s diverse range of work, encompassing education, healthcare, residential and cultural buildings and masterplans, has won around 100 awards and been widely published. Sunand is a member of the London Mayor’s Design Advisory Group and chairman of Article 25: the disaster relief and development charity. He was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2007-09), campaigning for action on climate change, reform of architectural education and better integration in design and construction.

He was a founding commissioner of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; a member of the Government’s Green Construction Board, and a panel member of the Farrell Review of Architecture. Sunand has authored a number of broadcasts, articles and books on architecture, the value of design and sustainability, the latest one being “Retrofit for Purpose”.


Dr. Stephen Pretlove

Stephen is associate professor in architectural science and technology in the School of Architecture and Landscape at

Kingston University in London. He is director of their in-house sustainable and environmental design facility: ArchiLab.

Stephen has a background in building engineering, architecture and environmental design, and has a particular interest in the achievement of genuinely sustainable buildings, through the processes of design, construction and occupation. Key to this are the issues of building performance, post-occupancy evaluation and occupant behaviour. Stephen is currently course director of the MSc Sustainable Building Design and Performance at Kingston, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

He is an educator, researcher and consultant in this field; is a UK Government-appointed research application assessor; and has extensive experience of knowledge transfer partnership projects linking the University with external built environment organisations. Stephen has an extensive history of research in this field over twenty years.

John Prevc

Since becoming a registered architect in 1986, John has worked with Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Will Alsop in London, and

with Thomas Herzog in Munich.

He joined Foster & Partners in 1995, becoming project director for: the new Channel Tunnel Rail Terminal at St Pancras Station; the redevelopment of Dresden Railway Station; the British Museum; and a masterplan for Elephant and Castle. He has designed numerous City Academy school projects and became a founding partner at Make in 2004. He has led teams on numerous,significant masterplans, including for: Edinburgh Waterfront; North West Lands in Wembley; and Science Central in Newcastle. John has helped design the Cube at the Mailbox in Birmingham; three buildings for Nottingham University; a new office for Esprit near Dusseldorf; and the refurbishment of listed buildings in Geneva for HSBC.

He has been designing an art installation for the Cultural Olympics. John is a member of the Academy of Urbanism and has been a visiting tutor and lecturer at the Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry, Bartlett and Ljubljana Schools of Architecture. He has written a regular column for the Architect’s Journal and contributed to articles in many publications. John acts as an architectural and urban design critic for Coventry City Council, and as judge for the city’s biannual Architectural Design Awards.

Darren Price

Darren’s specific areas of interest are housing and placemaking and the involvement of communities therein.

After training as an architect in Manchester, he went on to complete his PhD entitled: ‘Community Involvement in the Design of Social Housing’ at the University of Sheffield (2002). He gained client-side experience, working for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the innovative ‘Housing Choice’ stock-transfer regeneration programme, co-ordinating numerous estate steering groups, housing associations and consultants.

Darren became the Architecture and Urban Design Advisor (2007) at Urban Vision North Staffordshire, managing the successful Design Review panel; reviewing over 250 schemes; providing a local enabling service; developing and delivering a range of training courses. He has since been working in private consultancy as Place ART, predominantly advising volume house-builders on aspects of placemaking and design quality, and working with communities. Darren is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield; an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism; a Glass-House Community-Led Design Enabler, and PlacEd Ambassador. He is Chair of Governors at a local school, a District Councillor and the Parliamentary Candidate for Congleton in Cheshire for 2015.


Miles Price

Miles is Director of Planning at British Land. He joined British Land in 2001 and has a BSc (Hons) in Town Planning and an MSc in Transport

Planning. Miles is responsible for coordinating planning teams across a wide range of complex and high profile mixed use, residential, commercial and retail projects throughout the UK. These include the 46 acre Canada Water Masterplan in London Borough of Southwark. He also has particular expertise in community engagement and employment and training initiatives.

He is responsible for transportation matters at British Land properties and is actively involved in a range of strategically significant infrastructure projects including: HS2, Crossrail 1 +2, Thames Tideway Tunnel, tram train and bus rapid transit projects and East London River crossings. He has extensive experience of working with local authorities and transport bodies including TfL, Highways England, Network Rail and train operating companies.

Miles is a member of: the Royal Town Planning Institute; The GLA Roads Task Force; the Sustrans’ London Advisory Panel and was instrumental in starting the Highways England Developer Group.

He was Transport Planner of the Year in 2003 and has lectured on planning and transport courses at Sheffield Hallam and University College London.

Brenda Puech

Brenda is an architect and highly experienced, qualified access consultant with wide ranging commercial experience,

specialising in inclusive external environments and public realm.

With over ten years’ experience in the sector, she was Director of Consultancy for the Centre for Accessible Environments. Brenda has comprehensive experience of providing bespoke training in different aspects of inclusive environments. She has managed wide ranging projects, including carrying out an extensive consultation and audit exercise for the City of York (2013), published as the York City Centre Access and Mobility Audit.

Brenda managed production of a suite of guidance for the Equality Commission Northern Ireland, to encourage small businesses to make their services more accessible to disabled customers and staff. She was UK representative for the European Transfer of Innovation project: Training Tools for Accessible Towns (2012), which developed online training tools for urban design professions to create accessible streets and townscapes; on the British Standrds Institution (BSI) working group for the BS 559: Accessible urban external environments. Brenda is a member of the National Register of Access Consultants, and on the Centre for Accessible Environments Panel of Inclusive Design Consultants.

John Pugh-Smith

John was called to the Bar (1977), and is both a practising planning barrister and commercial mediator.

With a particular practice focus on medium and large scale residential development; retirement and care homes; and enforcement, John brings professional experience, gained over 35 years, to his role as successful mediator and coach, dealing with a wide range of clients and issues for both public and private sectors, including special interest groups. His specialist mediations have included leading examples to resolve an intractable land-use enforcement matter within an An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; a major ‘stalled development’; a £4m environmental damage claim, and the resolution of a high profile heritage dispute.

John has been at the forefront of initiatives to use Alternative Dispute Resolution in town and country planning, including as a panel member of the Department for Communities and Local Government’s “section 106 brokers”. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a consultant member of the Retirement Housing Group.


Julia Ratcliffe

Julia is a Structural Engineer and Director at Expedition Engineering in London.

In her 22 year career she has worked on a wide variety of building types and scales: typified by architectural projects demanding a high degree of design integration and structural expression. Outside the UK, Julia has contributed to major international projects in North America, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining Expedition in 2006, she worked for Buro Happold, including five years in New York. After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, she worked in Thailand in support of the reconstruction and has served as a Trustee for Architecture for Humanity UK.

Julia has recently seen the completion of the Intesa SanPaolo tower in Turin, with Renzo Piano Building Workshop for which she led the structural engineering team and the new headquarters for the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Richard Rees

Richard is an experienced masterplanner and architect, who has delivered numerous, major masterplans across the globe; now

a freelance consultant masterplanner, illustrator and artist with his own company, Artyrees Ltd.

As masterplanner urban in Hong Kong, he designed the Wanchai and Central Reclamation scheme (1980s), joining BDP, London (1990). Masterplans have included the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon; Liverpool One; and Waterfront City, Melbourne. He worked on the design of the Sydney Olympic Tennis Centre; Athens Olympic Tennis Centre, and the competition-winning Guangzhou Tennis Centre; recently on the Rio Olympic Tennis Centre, and new Kuwait International Tennis Centre. An experienced facilitator, he has run consultations in Harlow, Maidenhead, Brighton, Ely, Harrow and Toronto; external examiner for the Urban Design course at the University of Westminster; contributor to the book: ‘Urban Design Futures’; has lectured in France, Australia, Canada and Morocco.

He became Chairman of the Society of Architectural Illustration (2015), and edited a book of the Society’s work: ‘Drawing on Architecture’(2014). Richard is a successful artist and exhibited ‘Pattern of Settlement’, his aerial views of cities at the Abbot and Holder Gallery (2015).

Amanda Reynolds

Amanda has over 25 years experience as an architect and urban designer, in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, with the last 12 years

spent working on projects in the UK and Ireland. She is the Director (from 2007) of design practice AR Urbanism, following 5 years as Director of Urban Design for Llewelyn Davies.

Amanda’s work has a number of threads including large-scale residential-led mixed-use master planning projects, urban regeneration projects and urban design and streetscape projects. These include design work, including provision of design advice, community engagement activities, Design and Access Statements, Building for Life assessments and Expert Witness advice at Public Inquiries. Amanda is a past Chair of the Urban Design Group and part time lecturer/tutor for Master’s degree courses at the Universities of Westminster and Southbank.

She regularly chairs and speaks at conferences on master planning and urban design issues, and is a member of the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and Hackney’s Design Review Panels, as well as Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Major Projects Review Panel. Amanda is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and a registered architect in the UK and New Zealand.


Geoff Rich

Geoff is an Architect and Managing Partner for Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS), and has led many high profile projects

focused on new design for the historic environment. He was team leader for FCBS’ award-winning Clore Learning Centre at Hampton Court Palace, and is currently leading the FCBS team for the major renovation of Bath Abbey. Other major current schemes include the re-use of the oldest surviving iron-framed buildings in the world, at Shrewsbury Flax Mill for Historic England, and a new conservation workshops building at Windsor Castle.

After completing his architectural studies at the University of Newcastle, Geoff joined FCB Studios (1996) and became a Partner (2000). He has taken the leading role in the practice’s creative re-use and regeneration work, and maintains a very keen interest in design, conservation and sustainability.

He is an accredited conservation architect with the Architects Accredited in Building Conservation and the Royal Institute of British Architects schemes; and a Lethaby Scholar of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Geoff is a long-standing member of the South West Design Review Panel, and a regular visiting lecturer at several universities.

Kay Richardson

Kay is a Chartered Landscape Architect and qualified Urban Designer enjoying a varied career of 22 years in association with non-

departmental public bodies; local authorities; environmental design professionals; and international sustainability innovators, trainers and activists. Kay is always keen to explore how design thinking, creativity and mindful practice can be harnessed to create space for social change where environment, community, heritage, productivity, creativity and innovation lead.

As a designer advocating distinctiveness, craft and resilience, Kay has devised and initiated an exemplar landscape character assessment strategy, now rolled out across Surrey; and founded The Pugmill Bakehouse, a wood fired community kitchen. A social enterprise that celebrates the crafts and traditions of utilitarian pottery and communal food production, the project has contributed an innovative restoration of a Victorian ‘country’ Pottery for local community and business use.

A Heritage At Risk Adviser for Historic England, Kay identifies heritage assets most at risk of being lost due to neglect, inappropriate management or development, and works to find viable uses consistent with their conservation.

Antony Rifkin

Antony, partner at Allies and Morrison, has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, and a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the

University of Cape Town. He has a Diploma in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University; is a chartered town planner, and member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Antony was the founding Director of Urban Practitioners, which specialised in masterplanning, planning, urban design and consultation. Urban Practitioners merged with Allies and Morrison (2011). He is leading the masterplanning of Guildford town centre for Guildford Borough Council, which has included the production of the Guildford Town Centre Vision (2014) and Guildford Town Centre and Hinterland Masterplan (2015).

Antony is also working on a new masterplan for Thamesmead for Peabody. He led the research and production of the Historic England major publication: ‘The Changing Face of the High Street: Decline and Renewal’; co-author of the good practice guide: ‘Investing in the High Street’, the Historic England economic and regeneration series: ‘The Heritage Dividend, and New Life for the Heritage Lottery Fund.’ Antony is also the author of the Historic England publication ‘Retail Development in Historic Areas’.


Andy Roberts

Andy is an urban designer and Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute with over 14 years’ experience of professional practice

within the public and private sector; and a particular expertise in the production of large scale residential and mixed use masterplans, and design guidance for some of the largest development schemes across the country.

Project examples include: Liverpool Waters - the production of the Building Characterisation Study for the regeneration of 60 hectares of historic dockland, falling within the Mersey Waterfront World Heritage Site; and Discovery Park – the production of a comprehensive mixed use masterplan for the regeneration of 72,5 hectare site, following the relocation of Phizer, as part of a ‘Total Place Approach’ to re-development.

Andy has played a pivotal role in growing the urban design services of Planit-ie, with responsibility for managing and leading a team of urban designers to deliver a high quality urban design and masterplanning service. He has led community engagement, design workshops and inquiry by design exercises, typically involving a large number of stakeholders, such as: elected council members, English Heritage, Design Council, and the Homes and Communities Agency.

David Roberts

David, Deputy Chief Executive, igloo Regeneration, lives in Manchester, and has over 25 years’ experience in the development,

construction and facilities management industry. For 10 years he has specialised in sustainable urban regeneration, as a Director of igloo Regeneration. David has been an assessor for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Assessment of Professional Competence; external examiner for the University of Central Lancashire; and a judge for the RICS Property Management Corporate Social Responsibility Awards.

In addition to his igloo directorships David has been a Commissioner on the RICS Presidential Commission on Sustainability, and National Sustainability Panel Member of the Government’s Sustainable Development Commission.

He has been a Design Review Panel Member at MADE, the Architecture Centre for the West Midlands, and is currently a Member of Design Review Panel at Places Matter in the North West of England. Last year David was invited to be a Commissioner on the RICS Land and Society Commission, and has been an Associate Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation since 2008.

Graham Roberts

Graham is a prominent public art consultants, with over 30 years’ experience.

He has commissioned

leading sculptors, artists and makers to collaborate with architects and engineers, to sprinkle their magic over many large capital developments and to work within small-scale community facing schemes. Among his many projects are the Wakefield Cathedral Precinct re-design by Tess Jaray (with Tom Lomax and Martin Creed); and a programme of artists’ interventions for the UK’s largest ‘shared space’ scheme: the Ashford Ring Road project, with Nayan Kulkarni, Michael Pinsky and many international artists. He has served on arts panels, design teams and design review bodies.

Graham is a principal of the RKL Consultancy; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and non-executive director of Concourse: the architecture centre for the Leeds City region. He has given many talks and lectures on public art and the commissioning process in the UK and abroad. Currently he is engaged in commissioning new public artworks for Teesside University, and for three new build health care schemes in Hull.


Anna Rose

Anna is an architect and urban planner with over 13 years’ expertise in advising on mixed-use urban masterplans and public realm projects.

She has extensive experience of working with private and public sector clients on complex masterplanning projects, with a particular focus on the design of effective human behaviour patterns. Her expertise targets optimising spatial connections for the benefit of pedestrians, cyclists (walkability, safety and conviviality), and local businesses (proximity to footfall, interchange and density of amenity). Anna recently led Space Syntax’s spatial planning studies for the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprize Zone masterplan for the Homes and Communities Agency, and advised Transport for London, the Greater London Authority (GLA), and the London Borough of Camden on the likely public realm impacts of HS2 in the Euston Area. Currently, she is advising the London Legacy Development Corporation on the urban integration of the ‘Olympicopolis’ sites: University College London, East and Stratford Waterfront.

In addition to her work in the UK, Anna leads Space Syntax’s design and consulting activities in the USA and continental Europe. She speaks regularly at industry and academic events worldwide, and is an Honorary Research Associate at UCL. Anna is a member of the UK Academy of Urbanism.

Jon Rowland

Jon, director of Jon Rowland Urban Design Ltd., is a consultant registered architect and urban designer.

Areas of expertise include urban design and masterplanning; regeneration and urban renewal; development strategies; design advice, guidance and training both in the UK and overseas. Projects include the award winning Telford Millennium Community; and short-listed Cottam Hall, Stranraer Waterfront and Temple Quay. Other masterplans, spatial and urban design strategies include: completion of Frederick Gibberd’s 1970 plan for Harlow; Culham Science Centre for UK Atomic Energy Authority; a coastal infrastructure masterplan for Rhosneigr; Urban Design Framework for Colindale, north London, for the Greater London Authority; spatial plans for Central Oxfordshire and Partnership for Urban South Hampshire. These are complex projects and Jon works with interdisciplinary teams to provide an integrated approach.

He has lectured extensively; is past Chair of the Urban Design Group; has written many articles and was co-editor of Urban Design Futures (published, 2006). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and part of Urbanism Environment and Design’s (Urbed) team, which won the Wolfson Economic Prize on Garden Cities.

Alireza Sagharchi

A consultant architect and urban designer with extensive experience of development, masterplanning and regeneration projects

in the UK and overseas, Alireza has advised Government, public agencies and private sector clients.She co-edited: ‘Urban Design Futures’; is author of: ‘Community Decay’ and: ‘Designing our Environment’, a strategy for the built environment in the South West, with a paper on the quality of suburbs (due, June). Chair of Urban Design Group, she promoted urban design, with several projects shortlisted for urban design awards including: Telford Millennium Community, Temple Quay North and Stranraer Waterfront. Alireza chairs the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire-Milton Keynes Design Network and has acted as a CABE enabler, regional representative and Building for Life assessor.

Notable masterplans include: Coastal Recreational Infrastructure for Rhosneigr; regeneration of a high-tech UK Atomic Energy Authority facility in Oxfordshire; major urban extensions for Runcorn (1500 units), Preston (1000 units); completing the Gibberd plan of Harlow (1200 units) and Houghton Regis (5000 units); masterplans for key areas of Belfast, historic environments and New Deal for Communities projects in Portsmouth and Luton. She has provided advice/trained local authorities on design quality and procurement directly, and through Cabe initiatives.


Flora Samuel

Flora is Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the new University of Reading School of Architecture, and former Head of the

University of Sheffield School of Architecture.

She has received over £500K of research funding to study the ways in which architects evidence and communicate the value of what they do. Flora is currently raising the profile of research at the Royal Institute of British Architects, where she is an elected national councillor and Chair of the Research and Innovation Group. Trained as an architect at Cambridge University and Princeton, she was in housing practice for five years in London before going into teaching. Her aim is to make architectural education more professional, more useful and more inclusive. Flora wrote several acclaimed books on unrepresented aspects of the modernist architect, Le Corbusier before turning her attention to the public perception of design.

She believes that architects need to be able to demonstrate their value to the public and policy makers with clear, convincing evidence, and that this can only be done by bringing architectural academia and practice closer together. She is based in Cardiff.

Clare San Martin

Clare is an architect, masterplanner, community planner and partner at placemaking practice, JTP.

A passionate exponent of community involvement in design, she has led participatory design processes in the UK, Ireland and Sweden. Clare has worked on many regeneration initiatives, ranging from inner city estates and town centres to whole town action plans for former mining communities. Her international work includes: leading the consultant team for the Liberties Local Area Plan, on behalf of Dublin City Council; a regeneration masterplan for 136 hectares of Dublin’s south inner city, including extensive public realm improvements based around sustainable transport.

Clare was also responsible for running Sweden’s first Community Planning process in Stockholm, on behalf of the City Council. Her architectural projects include the award-winning Nordica Apartments in Tower Hamlets; new council housing; an Independent Living scheme for older people in Lenton, Nottingham, and a sheltered housing complex at Makins Court, Hampshire. Clare led the masterplanning team for Chilmington Green, a 5,750 home Garden Suburb for Ashford, Kent, and is currently working on a Design Code for the housebuilder consortium promoting the project. She is a member of the Academy of Urbanism and a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology Communities assessor.

Rachel Sandbrook

Rachel is a Structural Engineer with thirteen years’ experience; Associate Director at Engenuiti, an innovative and dynamic engineering

practice, and this year’s Structural Timber Awards ‘Engineer of the Year’.

She has designed buildings with acclaimed architects across wide ranging sectors, with particular emphasis on sport, cultural and educational facilities; recently working with architects Reich and Hall to deliver Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre. Experienced in the refurbishment of existing structures, including historic and listed buildings, she developed proposals for the renovation of the stunning Listed Long Shop railway building in Swindon, enabling it to be incorporated into an expanded Swindon Designer Outlet. Rachel is chartered with both the Institution of Civil Engineers and Institution of Structural Engineers.

Her previous positions at engineers Buro Happold and Fluid Structures have enabled her to accrue considerable and diverse experience of multi-disciplinary working. Previously, Technical Studies Coordinator for Central Saint Martin’s degree course: BA Architecture: Spaces and Objects, she enjoys an ongoing responsibility for managing, resourcing and mentoring Engenuiti’s engineering team.


Peter Sandover

Peter is an architect with over 30 years’ experience in sustainable architecture, masterplanning and regeneration.

His recent work has focused on community masterplans, neighbourhood plans and engagement strategies. Key projects include: neighbourhood planning support to Barne Barton, Plymouth; South Marston Swindon, and he acts as consultant design manager to the Eden Project on recent capital projects. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, and the Academy of Urbanism.

As well as running his own practice Sandover Associates, he is an associate of CAG Consultants on of the UK’s leading sustainability, climate change and community engagement consultancies. Peter was responsible for regeneration proposals at Devonport, Plymouth; Bristol, Bath; Camborne; Pool; Redruth; St Austell; Liskeard, and the Isles of Scilly. He led rural masterplans in Chudleigh, Devon and Winchester,and continues to provide advice on community engagement best practice. In Kingsbridge he led a regeneration strategy, and now sits in a voluntary capacity on the local area partnership, a Local Action Group and Coastal Communities Fund. He also runs a network promoting the use of renewable energy throughout South Devon.

Dr. Gina Sands

Gina is an ergonomist and researcher in the field of ageing and health, currently working as a Research Fellow at the University of

Nottingham. She has a BSc in Ergonomics/Human Factors, and a PhD in Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety, focusing on falls in hospitalised older people.

Gina has a specific interest in inclusive design and creating built environments suitable for later life. She has worked on various projects and research relating to successful ageing and also contributed to the World Health Organisation’s Age Friendly City initiative, whilst working at Coventry University. Gina is aiming to develop a new project focusing on aspirational housing for later life, specifically targeting people around the time of retirement. ̀ Her experience also includes engaging with older people and members of the public in projects, and writing for a variety of different audiences including lay people and academic journals.

Christie Sarri

Christie makes things happen by implementing her expertise in civil engineering and strategic management.

She practices the value exchange system: an innovative analysis tool, co-created within Meggitt Bird. The tool is adopted by a vast number of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises throughout Europe and the Middle East, with outstanding results. An interesting study case is also presented in her MBA thesis: Warwick University. Formerly, Christie gained extensive engineering experience working in Balfour Beatty and Arup (London). In 2013 she became partner in AGAS Group: engineering design and build consultancy, with a rich portfolio of large public projects and high-quality design of specialist structures. AGAS Group is now also offering outsourcing design services in UK and Russia. Christie is a chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in the UK, Italy and Greece.

Additionally, she is leading a supportive network for career women who wish to transform their business into a good business. Informal networking will be made possible for young professionals in 2016.


Lucy Saunders

Lucy is a public health specialist with ten years’ experience. She leads the integration of transport and public health in London,

working jointly for the Greater London Authority and Transport for London.

In 2014 TfL became the first transport authority in the world to publish a Health Action Plan, which Lucy wrote and now leads on its implementation. Previously, she worked across a wide range of organisations from local to international level, including the National Health Service; Department of Health; World Health Organisation; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; private and voluntary sector organisations. She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, and Transport Planner of the Year (2015).

Biljana Savic

Biljana is an urban planner and architect with extensive experience, gained at senior positions in the public and third sector advisory

bodies, architectural, urban planning and construction management consultancies.

She currently holds the position of Programme Director at The Prince’s Regeneration Trust, in charge of a major UK wide training and mentoring programme, for community organisations with heritage regeneration projects. In her previous role, Biljana managed a government funded programme of support to over 50 communities, piloting neighbourhood planning for The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community. She was also a Senior Advisor at The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and Director of spatial masterplanning consultancy Space Syntax Limited.

Biljana is a non-executive Director of the Academy of Urbanism; a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institute of British Architects. She is a member of The Glass-House Community Led Design’s enabling panel and a Winston Churchill Fellow. Her areas of expertise include community/stakeholder engagement; neighbourhood planning; community-led regeneration and development; mixed use/housing-led masterplanning; large scale spatial strategies; space use and design impact analysis; design and development procurement.

Alexia Sawyer

Alexia is an IMPACT PhD candidate, funded by University College London (UCL) and Glasgow Centre for Population Health. She holds an

MA Hons in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Health Psychology from UCL.

Alexia was research assistant on Active Buildings: a National Institute for Health Research, School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR) funded collaborative study, into the relationship between the workplace environment and office-workers’ physical activity, and sedentary behaviour. After 1.5 years in this post, she completed a UCL Public Policy secondment to the What Works team in the Implementation Unit, Cabinet Office; and worked on a report detailing the role of behaviour change theory in increasing the generation, communication and adoption of evidence in public policy making and evaluation.

She is currently studying for a PhD investigating the interactive influence of the built environment and social capital on physical activity at the Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL. This involves quantitative analysis of primary/secondary data and collection of qualitative data, using a PhotoVoice methodology to explore the physical/social determinants of active living in neighbourhoods in Glasgow. She was awarded the Chadwick Trust Travelling Fellowship for her qualitative research.


Wade Scaramucci

Wade, Associate Director, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, gained experience in practices in Los Angeles, New York, Dubai and London

before joining the practice (2005) as Project Architect.

He has worked on a broad variety of projects including: Horseferry House, the global headquarters for Burberry, and the Angel Building, Islington. Recent projects include: Hampstead Road; a mixed used office and residential scheme in Camden; and numerous projects in the US. Promoted to Associate Director (2008), he assists with the coordination of design and management issues.

Completed key projects/awards include: (2010) Angel Building, London 3R Awards: Office Category 2011. British Construction Industry Award: Judges Special Award 2011. British Council of Offices Award: Refurbished and Recycled Workspace 2011. Civic Trust Awards: Commendation 2011. Concrete Society Award: Rejuvenation Award and Certificate of Excellence 2011. New London Award for Working 2011. Regeneration and Renewal Award: Design Excellence 2011. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award for Architecture 2011. RIBA Stirling Prize: Shortlist 2011. Distinctions include: US Registered Architect (since 2001) American Institute of Architects (Part III equivalent); UK Registered Architect (since 2002), Royal Institute of British Architects.

Martha Schwartz

Martha is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities and the urban landscape.

Her work spans from site-specific art installations to working with cities at strategic planning levels. An advocate for how cities can help to reduce climate change and support a more sustainable approach to diminishing resources, she believes that design creates identity, sense of place and helps to differentiate us in an ever-growing uniformity of place, as a result of globalization.

As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, she has over 30 years’ experience as a landscape architect and artist on a world wide variety of projects. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes including: the Women in Design Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architect, and the Council of Fellows Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Martha is a tenured Professor at Harvard University. She has lectured internationally about sustainable cities and the urban landscape. Her work has been featured widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions.

Irene Seijo

Irene is an experienced project manager and landscape consultant with 25 years of experience in regeneration, public

realm, planning and development.

She is very experienced in public space planning, design and management; including the strategic planning of green infrastructure and the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects. As Operations Director for Groundwork, London, she gained a comprehensive understanding of community engagement, that encourages environmental, social and economic regeneration. Following Groundwork, she became Green Infrastructure Manager for Ashford’s Future, implementing projects that exploited the potential of the network of rivers and landscapes: through planning policy, evidence through Geographic Information System data, and resolution of complex land ownership issues. Irene is passionate about creative placemaking, and has worked with the Crafts Council and Arts Council on arts and urban design projects, that aimed to encourage distinctive placemaking in areas of proposed regeneration.

Now running her own consultancy, Irene facilitates workshops with professionals and community groups to achieve consensus around complex place making issues. She is particularly interested in the role of accessible green infrastructure in tackling health issues and socio-economic factors, by encouraging interventions to improve the use of existing greenspace.


Yasmin Shariff

Yasmin is an architect in practice since 1986. She has held senior posts in public, private and academic sectors.

A director of Dennis Sharp Architects; was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster; and Head of Design of a multi-academy sponsor, responsible for managing fourteen major school projects over a period of three years. She was elected Honorary Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association and appointed non-executive director of the East of England Regional Development Agency. Yasmin has hands on experience of delivering complex projects, including the transformation of Listed Buildings at Ascot Racecourse, and proposals for renewing Robert Adam’s first London house: Chandos House. She has worked for several publicly funded organisations, including Transform South Yorkshire.

Yasmin is a director of the International Committee of Architectural Critics and Secretary of the Franco Britannic Union of Architects. She was appointed as an evaluator for the European Union; a judge for the World Architecture Festival; and an assessor for the Civic Trust; the Technology Strategy Board, and Innovate UK. She currently chairs the AA XX 100 steering group, working to celebrate a centenary of women at the Architectural Association in 2017.

Justine Sharman

Justine qualified as an Occupational Therapist (1992), and worked for ten years before becoming an Access Consultant.

She studied for an MSc Inclusive Environments at The University of Reading, before becoming a member on the National Register of Access Consultants (2003). Justine worked as an independent Access Consultant, before joining Middlesbrough Council (2008) as an Access Officer. She has conducted many access audits and appraisals of various buildings and environments, including large sites such as, a college campus to small churches; and involved in many design projects, including building refurbishments and new build projects such as, Building Schools for the Future.

Justine enjoys the creative challenge of working with historic environments, and is currently part of a design team involved in an exciting Heritage Lottery Fund project. She has delivered many training sessions on accessibility and disability awareness, and contributed to some publications on disability and access. Justine has been the lead officer for the Changing Places toilets campaign in Middlesbrough, where 10 facilities are now operational; is a member of the Access Association, and an Inclusive Environment Assessor with The Civic Trust Awards.

Nick Sharman

Nick is a local government consultant and his work has included assignments for the Local Government Association, the

Cabinet Office’s Commissioning Academy, and Design Council.

Until recently he was Director of Local Government at A4e, leading the development of regeneration programmes linking physical and social aspects of regeneration. Previously he was Managing Director, Local Government at Amey plc, where he managed a £400m portfolio of partnership based service, and Private Finance Initiative delivery contracts with Councils across the UK, employing over 4,000 staff.

He has had a variety of Board level positions in both private and public sector regeneration, including Director at Gardiner and Theobald, and deputy chief executive at the London Borough of Islington, where he led the Council’s regeneration team, and had direct responsibility for the £400m Emirates Stadium. At the London Development Agency he was director of operations, covering London’s £300m Single Regeneration and Skills Budgets, including a year’s secondment to the Department of Trade and Industry as a Director of Regions. He has advised Government on service procurement issues and has written widely on strategic and regeneration issues. He has an MPhil in town planning and an MBA.


Ian Sharratt

Ian studied at Manchester College of Art and Design, before gaining a Master’s degree in Environmental Design at The Royal College

of Art (1976). He joined Michael Hopkins Architects (1976), becoming a partner (1981-1996) when, with John Pringle and Penny Richards he founded Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University (2003). The Sheffield Winter Garden project provides an example of what he regards as a positive piece of architecture, that delivered uplifting spaces and helped reverse the spiral of decline of Sheffield city centre. Another area of interest is in the texture of buildings, necessary to cater for the workplace environments required by clients, keen to keep pace with the technology that enables more stimulating ways of working.

Ian was Hon Treasurer of the Royal Institute of British Architects Building Industry Trust, and has been an Open University validator at the Architectural Association. Former Governor at King Alfred’s School, Golders Green, he has taught and lectured widely. Ian was a member of the CABE Design Review Panels for Crossrail and The Thames Tunnel project, and joined the London Design Review Panel of Design Council Cabe in 2012.

Barry Shaw

Barry is an independent adviser on town planning and urban design. Qualified as an architect and town planner, he has over

35 years of experience working across the public, private and voluntary sectors, in the UK and Europe.

An adviser to English Heritage, Design Council Cabe, and Essex County Council, he also serves on the Board of the Kent Architecture Centre. Barry has particular experience in regeneration and the planning/delivery of new development, as well as managing change in historic areas. He specialises in developing projects from the earliest stages to create sustainable and practical places. Strongly committed to partnership working with local communities, he is a skilled facilitator. Formerly, Director of the Essex Design Initiative, where he led a multi-disciplinary team supporting wide ranging local authorities in eastern England. He had previously set up the Kent Architecture Centre, supporting planning and design decision making, across the south east; including advising Ministers on the original establishment of CABE, and was visiting professor at the Harvard Unit for Housing & Urbanisation.

Currently a DC Cabe Enabler, he sits on numerous committees, including the English Heritage Advisory Committee, and Sustainability Committee at Swan Housing. Awarded the MBE for services to architecture.

Jon Sheaff

Jon has been a Chartered Landscape Architect for 15 years, and has over 20 years’ experience of developing/delivering complex

designed public realm solutions for the public realm.

In Wales, he joined the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, to deliver a public art strategy, commissioning many principal public art works that distinguish this regeneration area. In London, he delivered a significant park regeneration project in Enfield, and joined Southwark Council (2001). As Head of Open Spaces for Southwark, he delivered a £25 million programme of park and open space renewal, including the restoration of Dulwich; Peckham Rye and Southwark Parks; the creation of new spaces at Bermondsey Spa, and Potter’s Fields. Joe raised £6m for works to create usable public space at Burgess Park, and set up London’s first Trust-administered public space at Potter’s Fields. He left Southwark Council to join Farrer Huxley as Director, running the Public Realm and Housing division; delivering projects for, amongst others: Peabody, Places for People, Newham and Southwark Councils.

He became an independent consultant (2011), designing and advising on public realm and housing projects; and joined the London Committee of the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2011.


Wendy Shillam

Wendy is an architect and town planner. Originally she worked on housing and university projects, graduating to urban design and

masterplanning (mid 1990’s).

As a founding partner of Shillam + Smith Architecture and Urbanism, she led many successful projects for impressive clients including IBM, the national Museums and Oxbridge Universities. Winning design competitions, won her many commissions. Wendy has worked on many large scale projects, and has a reputation for her approach to meaningful community consultation. Her current specialism is mixed use and sustainability. She worked on the Eco-towns programme and initiated The Cities Project, where she visited twenty one cities across Europe and America, that were putting sustainability at the heart of their growth agenda. She has experience working for and mediating between Government, Local Authorities, Communities and Developers.

Now working as an independent consultant, she is also chair of her local Neighbourhood Forum.

Andy Shipley

Andy is a National Lifetime Homes Coordinator with habinteg Housing; providing a service to the house building industry, supporting

public and commercial developers to design and construct homes and neighbourhoods, that will be accessible and adaptable to respond to the needs of our diverse society.

He is an Access Consultant registered with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and was appointed as Commissioner on the Commission for a Sustainable London (2012). Andy was on the disability rights commission leading work on Inclusive Design and access to the built environment, including publishing guidance (2000-2007); and with the Communities and Local Department leading work on Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, including advising ministers and officials on Inclusive Design issues (2007-2009). He led work on sustainable communities for the Equality and Human rights Commission (2009)and achieved amendments to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004) and the Housing Act. Chair of Fieldcare Trust; chair of the Buildings Regulations Advisory Committee review of standards for accessible housing (2008), and Chair of United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design (2003-2005).

Member of the Cabe Inclusion by Design advisory group, and the government’s Local Standards Framework round table.

Ken Shuttleworth

Ken founded Make (2004). The practice has won a remarkable range of projects since its inception, with its first building: the award-winning

Dartford Dojo (completed 2006).

Make’s completed buildings include: the City of London Information Centre; the 55 Baker Street office development; the Rodmarton Street, Grosvenor Waterside and Weymouth Street residential developments; the Copper Box for the London 2012 Olympics and The Cube in Birmingham. Previously, Ken was a Partner at Foster and Partners, where he worked on some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking buildings. He joined the practice (1977), moving to Hong Kong shortly afterwards to oversee all aspects of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank’s design and construction. He has written a column for New Builder magazine, served on the editorial board of Building magazine and judged the British Council of Offices awards scheme. He has received Honorary Doctorates from De Montfort University; the University of Westminster and the University of Nottingham, and an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

Ken was a CABE Commissioner (2002-2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Government Advisory Group on Professional and Business Services.


Jane Simpson

Jane is a chartered Architect and registered Access Consultant on the National Register of Access Consultants, and Director of her

own company. She has over two decades of experience in inclusion providing advice on a broad range of issues, often clarifying complex aspects of Equality legislation.

Jane is recognised as an expert in inclusive education buildings, working on over 200 projects during her career. Recent work with York St. John University shows the breadth of her knowledge, involving the development of an estate wide Access Standard alongside current projects including, refurbishment, listed buildings and new build projects. She has contributed to the development of Inclusive Design Practices and standards, nationally and internationally. Jane is a management board member of the National Register of Access Consultants, a member of the Selwyn Goldsmith Awards Judging Panel, and contributes to the Royal Institute of British Architects including, as a regional Council Member; Specialist Practice Advisor on Access, representing them on the Inclusion Hub project, British Standard Institute, BS8300 and External Environment Group, the International Union of Architects Region 1 Architecture for All Work Group; and is a member of the Regulations and Standards and Continual Professional Development Group.

Christina Sinclair

After studying architecture at Edinburgh University, Christina went on to specialise in conservation and town planning (MSc

with distinction, European Urban Conservation), undertaking additional courses on western architecture from institutions, such as the University of Oxford. Having influenced the built environment through architectural practice, the Twentieth Century Society, local planning authority context and Historic England, she has a broad range of experience relating to good design.

With experience approaching projects from various professional perspectives, Christina brings valuable expertise in engaging with all those who shape and experience the built environment. She brings her architectural skill, knowledge of urban design and conservation expertise to every project she works on, focused on facilitating positive development of our environment.

Christina also has notable expertise in sustainability and how this interacts with the historic environment, and received a distinction for her Masters dissertation on the subject. Currently working in Historic England’s Development Management team, Christina has particular expertise on positively managing change within the historic environment – ranging from large scale urban to rural landscape development – and received an internal staff award for her work in the field.

Philip Singleton

Philip is a Chartered Architect who has been involved in design (since 1989).

He has won awards for his design work

and has overseen design competitions for major new public space and buildings. Philip has a rich mix of private, public and third sector management. He has been actively responsible for the initiation and feasibility of projects which involve politics, finance, planning and business cases, often before an architect or design team has been appointed. As Chief Executive, he has directly commissioned design projects focusing on existing buildings and new developments. He has reported into a property board and charity board, and sits on an Academy Board as well as the British Architectural Trust: part of the Royal Institute of British Architects, which delivers and promotes awards, exhibitions and engagement.

Philip was the founding director of MADE, the built environment advocacy and project centre for the West Midlands, where he led on working with new and inexperienced clients, to help guide them to achieve the best design solutions for their projects.


Dr. Mark Skelly

Mark is a multi-disciplinary Building Environment and Service Engineer with 20 years’ experience and knowledge of a broad range of

engineering and design disciplines.

Past projects include: the new quarantine house at Kew Gardens; the redevelopment of the Grade II listed Farmiloe Building; a low carbon workplace in Wimbledon; Alfriston School pool; the Ortus Building at South London and Maudsley Hospital, and new art design and theatre spaces for Lady Eleanor Holles School. Mark set up Skelly and Couch (2007), which has since grown to a 33 person strong practice, with wide ranging high profile award winning projects. As well as hands on design, he has acted as a technical advisor to numerous clients, sits on the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology technical committee, and the Building Services Research and Information Association Softlandings User Group.

Mark currently teaches at the joint architecture and engineering department at the University of Bath, as Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Teaching Fellow in Engineering Design. He was awarded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Construction and Building Services Division Prize (2015), for contribution in the execution, promotion, and advancement of the art of engineering and science of building services and construction.

Lindsay Smales

Lindsay is an urban designer and community planner working at Leeds Beckett’s School of the Built Environment and Engineering. For

twenty years he was the main contact between the University and Leeds City Council’s (LCC) Senior Planning Managers and Council Leaders.

Lindsay has organised/chaired Urban Design Workshops on key issues facing the city, including Design of Millennium Square, Residential Development, City Living and Best Practice in the Design of Tall Buildings. He is one of the main provider’s of training in Planning and ‘Place Making’ for the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward.

Lindsay specialises in enabling Leeds Beckett students to work with/for local authorities, community groups and other agencies on ‘real-world’ projects; including Undergraduate and Master’s students being involved in research and place-based appraisal work, for the award-winning LCC Urban Design Strategy; The Headingley Renaissance Plan; The Community Vision for the Regeneration of Gipton; and Town Plans for Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. Currently Placemaking and Research Lead for the innovative Incredible Edible Todmorden Project, Lindsay was a United Nations (UN) Expert Delegate in Sustainable Urban Design at the Greening of Cities Conference in Tehran (2003), and delegate to the UN Habitat World Urban and Hong Kong: Make a Difference Forum.

Rachel Smalley

Rachel has worked in the field of inclusive design and access for disabled people for 12 years.

She has undertaken consultancy work and worked in public sector roles including Principal Advisor-Access for the Greater London Authority (GLA). Rachel co-authored: ‘Inclusive London: achieving and inclusive environment’ Supplementary Planning Guidance (2014) at the GLA’s London Plan team, and worked on the 2015 Minor Alterations to the London Plan Housing Standards, following the Housing Standards Review. She has significant experience of working on design reviews, and assessing planning proposals at application and pre-application stage, against a variety of planning policies and design standards (including ‘referable’ planning applications at the GLA).

Rachel is President of the Access Association; sits on the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC); sat on the ‘accessibility’ task group for the Housing Standards Review (Department for Communities and Local Government), and has sat on various British Standards committees for 10 years, covering access for disabled people, inclusive design and accessible housing, including the drafting panel which wrote BS8300:2009. Rachel is a consultant member of the National Register of Access Consultants.


Darryl Smith

Darryl is president of The Access Association, which champions an inclusive and accessible environments. He is a

keen advocate of partnership working and was particularly pleased to have co-delivered a national programme of “Planning for Inclusion” seminars. As a member of Inclusion by Design Group, formerly the Built Environment Group for Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, he contributed to a number of national and regional projects/publications, various Government Equality Schemes, and developed a number of initiatives that contribute to placemaking and cohesion.

Darryl has sat on a number of roundtables, seminars and working groups, which have driven forward the inclusive design agenda. He is a Cohesion and Inclusion Lead in Local Government, and has held various posts promoting Access in the public sector (since 1993). Following an earlier career as a Town Planner, he is a strong advocate of working in partnership with groups whose voices struggle to be heard.

Darryl grew up as a carer, which helped give him a pragmatic approach to design issues that need to be people focused and flexible. He is keen to see inclusive outcomes, which are informed and supported by effective user involvement.

Neil Smith

Neil has nearly 20 years’ experience in delivering environments that are accessible to all, with an in-depth knowledge of

legislation and client requirements.

With broad ranging experience, he is particularly interested in strategic masterplanning and infrastructure development, to meet both the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, and the broader requirements of delivering inclusive environments that are accessible to all. Neil has advised policy bodies, government departments, education providers, funding bodies, construction professionals, and commercial organisations. Projects include: London Underground; 2012 Olympic Park Masterplan; Olympic Legacy Communities Scheme; the Library of Birmingham (winner of the Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design); Battersea Power Station; Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration; Giant’s Causeway Visitor’s Centre; Haramain High Speed Rail and Stratford Waterfront.

As the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) Principal Access Advisor, he was principal author of the Mayor’s supplementary planning guidance: ‘Accessible London’. Neil has supported the GLA’s planning team on policy development and strategic application decisions. He is author of the London 2012 Inclusive Design Standards; sits on the British Standards Institute Committee responsible for access to buildings for disabled people and is on the Management Board of the National Register of Access Consultants.

Dr. Bridget Snaith

Bridget is a chartered landscape architect, urban regeneration consultant and social scientist. She has been designing landscapes,

developing and delivering regeneration programmes with communities in areas of high deprivation; researching and teaching across spatial design disciplines for over 20 years.

Bridget is a partner in Landscape Architecture and Regeneration practice Shape, and Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of East London. Her PhD, investigating the role of design in ethnic minority under-representation in UK parks, was awarded in Sociology by City University, London (2015). With expertise in inclusion along cultural lines, Bridget has also researched spatial design factors influencing fear of crime and limiting use of public space. Outside academia, she led development of one of the UK’s first Business Improvement Districts (2001- 2005).

She was a CABE Space enabler (2009 -2011), using skills in consultation and play design, and contributed to the All London Green Grid (2011) which led to the Framework for Brent Valley and Barnet Plateau. Since early 2015 she has been working with Peabody as a framework Landscape Architect, developing a play strategy for Thamesmead, and leading their Neighbourhood Improvement environmental regeneration programme.


Ros Southern

Ros is a chartered landscape architect and member of the Landscape Institute. Ros was a founding director of Southern Green Landscape

Architects in north east England, where she has been based since her graduation from Newcastle University in 1990.

Ros specialises in urban regeneration design projects, particularly in sensitive landscape and heritage locations. Her portfolio includes Student Forum: an award winning public square at the historic heart of Newcastle University; ‘Tweed and Silk’: a public realm strategy for Berwick upon Tweed (published in hardback); and Stephenson Quarter Newcastle, leading the landscape masterplanning and design for this major mixed use development. She has particular experience in landscape and visual assessment and is an expert witness with public inquiry experience. Ros is a Professional Practice Examiner and Pathway to Chartership mentor for the Landscape Institute, and has lectured to student landscape architects/architects as a visiting tutor at Newcastle University.

Ros is passionate about landscape led masterplanning, and the integration of green infrastructure and enhanced biodiversity into development. She also has a particular interest in working collaboratively with artists to seek creative and integrated design solutions.

Les Sparks

Les Sparks (OBE) is an architect/planner with 45 years’ professional experience in planning, urban design and

conservation. This includes the management of conservation projects in the Ironbridge Gorge and public realm projects in Birmingham city centre.

He became one of the founding Commissioners of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), leading its early work in the regions, before chairing the national Design Review Panel (from 2004), and the CABE Crossrail and Thames Tideway Tunnel Design Review Panels. He now chairs the West Midlands (MADE) Design Review Panel, and previously chaired the Nottingham and Plymouth City Panels. Les chaired the Urban Regeneration Panel (2004-14), advising the local authority on strategic policies and significant projects in the Bath World Heritage Site.

Currently Chairman of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site Steering Committee and the West Midlands Committee of the Heritage Lottery Fund. He was appointed as a Commissioner of English Heritage (EH, 2001); was a founding member of the EH/CABE Urban Panel, and its Chairman from 2003 to 2010. He was Director of Planning and Architecture at Birmingham City Council (1991-99) and a planning inspector. Les was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997.

Alexandra Steed

Alexandra is a landscape architect and masterplanner with 15 years of experience, with a major interest in art and sustainability.

She has worked internationally and at all project scales. Whilst Design Studio Lead at Aecom London, Alexandra directed the Qatar Public Realm Strategy and Guidelines project for the State of Qatar. As Director of Martha Schwartz Partners London office, she worked on a number of projects including the mixed-use Wellington Place scheme in Leeds. Alexandra now runs her own studio, Alexandra Steed URBAN, and is currently working on London projects, including an alternative scheme for the Royal Mail Site with the Mount Pleasant Association, under the Greater London Authority’s (GLA’s) Community Right to Build programme. She is developing a new campus landscape for SKY TV Headquarters, London. Alexandra is a chartered member of the Landscape Institute.


Michael Stiff

Michael qualified as an architect in 1980, having studied at the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL). After working for Rock Townsend and

Chapman Taylor, he formed Stiff and Trevillion, with Andy Trevillion (1981), setting up an office in Berlin (1990s), which he ran.

He participated in the International Building Exhition (IBA) projects and the first new building in East Berlin: a 25000sqm urban factory and office complex for Siemens. His work ranges from complex urban new builds for The Cadogan Estate, Derwent London and Hammerson, to private residences, restaurants and exhibition design. Notable projects include: Portobello Dock; 10-4 Pentonville Road, both for Derwent London; Liscarton House Sloane Street for The Cadogan Estate. They have also been responsible for some of the iconic restaurant brands of the last 20 years: Wagamama and Jamie’s Italian. He has taught at Westminster, Brighton and Sheffield Universities; and continues to exhibit drawings and paintings.

A member of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Architecture Appraisal Panel since its inception, he also sits on the Earls Court Review panel. Michael is an External Examiner for Liverpool John Moores University, and makes regular contributions to magazines and building reviews.

Martin Stockley

Martin has worked as a civil, structural, transport and infrastructure engineer since 1971 in public and private sectors on projects

ranging from master plans to detailed community work; his building structures work includes award winning designs on new-build and historic buildings.

He led the engineering team on the design for Manchester City Centre following the bomb damage of 1996 and his practice, Stockley (founded in 1997), was lead consultant for New Islington Millennium Village; he also engineered a number of Manchester’s iconic buildings including, No1 Deansgate, Urbis (now the National Football Museum) and Chips. In the early 1990’s Martin developed an approach to engineering streets and public spaces which improved safety, environment and function and much of this work is embedded in ‘Manual for Streets’ guidance document. Notable public realm projects include Ancoats and New Islington in Manchester, Poynton town centre, Stockport and New Road, Brighton. Martin has served on design review panels for the North West (chair), Midlands, Yorkshire, Oxford, London Legacy, Bath, English Heritage and CABE (chair); his infrastructure design review experience includes Bath and North East Somerset Transport Commission, Crossrail, Thames Tideway Tunnel and HS2. His time is currently divided between Moscow and the UK.

Jane Stoneham

Jane is Director of the Sensory Trust, an organisation advancing the development of inclusive outdoor environments in the

UK. With an MPhil in Landscape Design and Management, her work focuses on building richer connections between people and place, and ensuring access for everyone, regardless of age, disability and background. “We help people see their environment in new ways - to take a fresh view of somewhere familiar, use all their senses, create memories. We focus on sensory experience as well as physical access because understanding what makes a place resonate to different people, reveals the recipes we need for building more inclusive, engaging and meaningful experiences for everyone”.

Consultancy work includes integrating inclusive design within sustainable design, placemaking and community engagement. Clients include: the Eden Project; local authorities; design practices; healthcare and care providers; development companies and environmental bodies. She has built a close partnership between Sensory Trust and the Eden Project, and collaborations around the world, particularly in the USA, Japan, mainland Europe and Australia. Publications include: ‘Making Connections: a guide to accessible greenspace design’; ‘Grounds for Sharing’ (for Learning through Landscapes’); ‘Easy Access to Historic Landscapes’ (for English Heritage), and ‘By All Reasonable Means’ (for Natural England).


Richard Stones

Richard is the first serving police officer to be awarded Chartered Security Professional status. He holds an MSc in Security and Risk

Management, is a Fellow of the Security Institute, and an advisory council member of City Security and Resilience Networtks (CSARN).

Richard is a technical advisor to the designing Safer urban spaces project (DeSURBs), a technical advisor to the United Nations Criminal Research Institute (UNICRI) on the protection of crowded places, and a member of an American led NATO group on Public Private Partnership Intelligence and Information Sharing. He is Head of the Pre Crime Unit for Nottinghamshire Police, where he manages a team of staff who provide crime reduction advice to a broad rangeg of communities.

As a qualified architectural liaison officer and Prince 2 project manager, Richard has participated/managed several crime reduction focused projects. He has undertaken reviews of business crime reduction on behalf of the Police forces in East Midlands. He is a Director of the UK National Business Crime Reduction Forum; a Vice Chair of Governors at the third largest school in the country, and a Private Pilot with an interest in the threat posed by light aviation.

Tim Stonor

Tim is an architect and town planner with over 25 years’ experience in masterplanning, human behaviour design and smart

cities. He has been involved in many nationally and internationally significant projects, including the redesign of Trafalgar Square; Tate Modern; the British Museum and the UK Government Office for Science’s project on the Future of Cities.

Tim has served on CABE’s National Design Review Panel, and Crossrail Design Panel, and joined the Design Council’s Sounding Board (2014). He is a director of Morrison Brink Stonor architects, director of The Academy of Urbanism, and Visiting Professor at the Bartlett, UCL. Tim won a prestigious Loeb Fellow at Harvard University (2010). He became a trustee of the Design Council (2015) and sits on the Cabe Committee.

Dr. David Strong

Mark has nearly 30 years’ professional experience of working on sustainable transport and cycling.

He has worked as a consultant for Transport Initiatives (since 2005), following 3 years as a regional coordinator for the UK National Cycling Strategy Board. He worked for Sustrans (1991-2002), developing the National Cycle Network in South East England. Mark has worked extensively on cycling projects in London and the UK. He carried out a large project for Southwark Council’s Cycling Strategy (2015), analysing the existing and proposed cycle network, using tools in Transport for London’s (TfL’s) new “London Cycling Design Standards”: the first widespread use of this system. Mark was part of the team which carried out the International Cycling Best Practice Study for TfL, leading the site visits to look at cycling in New York City and Washington DC (2013/14).

He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation’s (CIHT’s) Sustainable Transport panel, and is its representative on the board examining the National Cycling & Walking Investment Plan for the Department for Transport. In a voluntary capacity, he is an elected community representative on Brighton & Hove City Council’s Transport Partnership, and sits on the council’s LSTF Steering Board.


Mark Strong

Mark has nearly 30 years’ professional experience of working on sustainable transport and cycling.

He has worked as a consultant for Transport Initiatives (since 2005), following 3 years as a regional coordinator for the UK National Cycling Strategy Board. He worked for Sustrans (1991-2002), developing the National Cycle Network in South East England. Mark has worked extensively on cycling projects in London and the UK. He carried out a large project for Southwark Council’s Cycling Strategy (2015), analysing the existing and proposed cycle network, using tools in Transport for London’s (TfL’s) new “London Cycling Design Standards”: the first widespread use of this system. Mark was part of the team which carried out the International Cycling Best Practice Study for TfL, leading the site visits to look at cycling in New York City and Washington DC (2013/14).

He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation’s (CIHT’s) Sustainable Transport panel, and is its representative on the board examining the National Cycling & Walking Investment Plan for the Department for Transport. In a voluntary capacity, he is an elected community representative on Brighton & Hove City Council’s Transport Partnership, and sits on the council’s LSTF Steering Board.

Peter Studdert

Peter is an independent adviser on planning and design based in Cambridge.

Qualified as an architect and town planner, he was previously Director of Planning at Cambridge City Council, where he played a leading role in developing the current growth strategy for the Cambridge Sub-region. He was responsible for initiating and shaping a number of award-winning housing projects in Cambridge including Accordia, which won the Stirling Prize in 2008, and the Abode development at Great Kneighton. He now advises a number of towns and cities on their strategies for growth and regeneration. Chair of Quality Review Panels for the London Legacy Development Corporation and the London Borough of Haringey, he is a co-chair of the Design South East Design Review Panel.

Peter also serves on the Oxford Design Review Panel and Historic England’s Urban Panel; is a past Chairman of the Historic Towns Forum; an Associate at Cambridge Architectural Research, and member of the Highbury Group for research into planning and housing at the University of Westminster.

Simon Sturgis

Simon is an Architect and Carbon Consultant. He formed Sturgis Associates (Architects), 1991; and Sturgis Carbon

Profiling (SCP), 2009.

SCP provides holistic, economically driven consultancy services for delivering a sustainable, low carbon built environment and does research for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, the British Council for Offices (BCO) on Climate Change, Whole Life Carbon and Renewables. SCP have advised on low carbon policy to: the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), Department for Communities and Local Government’s (DCLG), National Audit Office (NAO), Westminster City Council (WCC), and Historic England; on low carbon construction and the lifecycle of buildings to: Google, World Wildlife Fund, Land Securities, Grosvenor Estate, The Portman Estate, Argent, SEGRO, Tishman Speyer and Gatwick Airport. They do regular Carbon Economics articles for Building Magazine; carbon related articles for Architects Journal (AJ) and Royal Institute of British Architects Journal (RIBA).

Simon is a RIBA Sustainable Futures Group member, BCO Environment Group member, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Sustainability Council member, advisor to UK Green Building Council (GBC), has spoken widely on Low Carbon Construction in the UK/ internationally, is an AJ Retrofit Awards judge and currently leads an InnovateUK funded team, to define carbon reporting for the UK property industry.


Andrew Swain-Smith

An environmental engineer by training, Andrew joined BDP, Europe’s largest multidiscipline architecture and engineering

consultancy (1994), was appointed Engineering Director (1999) and Board Director (2010).

With over 15 years of designing education buildings, he leads the Education Group within BDP’s Environmental Design Studio: the umbrella for our building services engineers; lighting designers; acousticians; sustainability consultants, and building physicists. He was a member of the Cabe Enabler panel. He has led teams across the broad spectrum of education buildings, including the highly acclaimed Hampden Gurney Church of England Primary School; the award winning Marlowe and Leigh Academies; the Nano-Science Centre at the University of Cambridge; the Business School at Napier University, and the refurbishment of the Grade 1 listed Senate House for the University of London. Andrew has designed over 30 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Schools and City Academies, leading teams in Islington, Southwark, Greenwich, Teddington and Wandsworth.

He is passionate about promoting a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to design, and about the positive impact that well designed, comfortable, sustainable environments have on those who live, work and learn in buildings.

Paul Swann

Paul is a Landscape Architect and founding Director of Breeze Landscape Architects Limited, and has practiced as a Chartered Member

of the Landscape Institute for over eighteen years.

He has extensive experience working with public sector clients, community groups and regeneration agencies. This includes working over the past ten years with Islington Council and their regeneration partners to successfully deliver seven urban park regeneration projects across the Borough. Other areas of expertise include education landscape design across a broad range of projects including Children’s Centres and primary, secondary and special needs, including schools delivered through the Building Schools for the Future and Academies programmes.

Paul has experience as a former member of the CABE Enabling Panel, and has acted as client design advisor on a range of large-scale mixed use regeneration projects across north London. In academia, Paul completed a practical based, research project at Kingston University, exploring ways to improve built environment students transition from university to professional practice. During this time he gained experience of studio teaching at Kingston University, as well as at Kew Gardens and The Architecture Association.

Mark Swenarton

Mark is an architectural historian, critic and educator. He started his career teaching history at the Bartlett School of

Architecture, University College London, (1977), before moving into publishing.

In 1989 he co-founded Architecture Today magazine, followed in 2000 by Ecotech, and remained co-editor of both titles until 2005. Mark was head of the architecture school at Oxford Brookes University (2005-2010) and the inaugural James Stirling professor of architecture at Liverpool Universityfrom (2011-2015). As an architectural historian, Mark has written extensively about twentieth-century housing. His publications include ‘Homes fit for Heroes’ (1981) and ‘Building the New Jerusalem’ (2008); most recently ‘Architecture and the Welfare State’ (2015).

He is currently researching the low-rise high-density housing built by Camden in the 1960s and 1970s. Mark was a director of the Timber Research and Development Association (2006-2009), and at CABE/Design Council Cabe has been a vice-chair of design review since 2008. He is currently emeritus professor of architecture at Liverpool University.


Amanda Taylor

Amanda is a qualified architect who has worked for the last 20 years in the housing, regeneration and urban design fields.

She studied in Paris and began her career in a London practice. Amanda won national and regional awards from the Royal Town Planning Institute for the radical transformation of St Paul’s in Cheltenham (2014). Research on how the design process at St Paul’s contributed to the regeneration of the place was published in the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal. Her current masterplan for the former Ministry of Defence site in Lansdown, Bath, is designed to create a new sustainable neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. It includes housing, open space, elderly accommodation and a school in a highly sensitive visual and historic location.

Amanda has lectured on placemaking and on the role of community collaboration to enrich the design process. She has produced strategic masterplans across the country and abroad. Her work is strongly influenced by context, including landscape character, social context and built form. Her architectural background means that her masterplans have a strong delivery focus. Amanda is currently the Urban Design Director at Nash Partnership in Bath.

Andrew Taylor

Andrew established Patel Taylor with Pankaj Patel (1989), quickly gaining attention with competition wins for a masterplan for the

Antwerp Docks and the French city of Chateauroux, with a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award for the conversion of a stone barn in North Wales into an arts centre and gallery (1992). He was partner-in-charge for competition winning Ayr Citadel masterplan (1994), which took the practice into a new league, securing private funding after a twenty five year hiatus.

Current projects include: Springfield Hospital in South London which converts a listed NHS hospital into 850 homes; Eastside City Park, Birmingham; and the library and students centre for the University of Essex. Andrew is overseeing the conversion of the listed Stanley Mills complex, Gloucestershire into residential accomodation; Thames View, East London and the award-winning Lowther Children’s Centre in Richmond. His ability has been recognised by prestigious academic and public appointments including a visiting professorship at the Welsh School of Architecture; he has lectured in Japan, Spain, France, Holland and Ireland. Former member of CABE’s National Design Review Panel, the Newham Design Review Panel, and an assessor for the RIBA and Civic Trust awards.

Edward Taylor

Edward is a Town Planner, Urban Designer and Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute with 20 years’ experience in

the public, private and voluntary sectors in the North West, London, South East, and Midlands.

He has worked for Chesterton International Consultants; Knowsley, Trafford and Sefton Councils; and more recently privately for clients including private developers, Locality, the Planning Inspectorate (as a freelance Planning Inspector), parishes and producing Neighbourhood Development Plans. He also lectures and provides evidence for parliament. Example projects include: the successful Heritage Lottery Fund bid for improvements to Marine Gardens, Southport, for which he provided urban design advice (especially relating to access); and a mixed use development on brownfield land at Town Lane, Southport of 669 houses and apartments, an extra care scheme with 126 homes and 44 bed respite, retail and a business park, providing pre-application planning and urban design input on behalf of Sefton Council, working closely with developers and their architects on the urban design strategy.

Since 2011, Edward has been managing his own consultancy: Edward Taylor Planning and Design which operates primarily in North West England and London.


Nick Taylor Buck

Nick was recruited by the University of Sheffield (2013) to develop the intellectual underpinnings of an interdisciplinary

Sustainable Cities Institute within the University, working across Social Science and Engineering. Launched in 2014, the new institute is an inter-disciplinary research/innovation centre, concerned with developing/testing future cities strategies via co-production involving academia, public sector and industry. Nick has established a network of industrial partnerships, and runs a module for property-related students entitled ‘Sustainable Development in Practice’. Previously, Nick delivered Deloitte’s Building Carbon Management Services (BCMS) offer, and led Drivers Jonas Deloitte’s sustainable design advice work.

He performed lifecycle carbon impact assessments, and helped to optimise the wider sustainability performance of strategic, masterplanning and building level projects, focusing on passive design; energy conservation; renewable energy; specification; transport; waste; water; community, and biodiversity. Accredited Professional for the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM), and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - Building Design and Construction, he assesses various building types/masterplans through the BREEAM Communities scheme; provides sustainable design advice as a member of BRE’s Standing Panel of Experts, Yorkshire and Humber’s Regional Design Review Panel, and Planning and Climate Change Review Panel. He has a PhD in climate change ecology for the United Nations Environment Programme.

Ludwig Tewksbury

Lud is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Urban Designer with thirteen years’ post masters experience, delivering innovative projects

across the private and public sectors, including a Royal Landscape Institute Award winning transport and public realm vision for Clerkenwell, Islington (2008).

Most recently he has developed unique public realm proposals for The Crown Estate in partnership with the City of Westminster. This has built upon a proven track record of award winning Central London public realm projects, including the improvements at Whitehall and the Oxford Circus diagonal crossing. In 2013 Lud led multi-disciplinary teams on the landscape design for the Zayed National Musem on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. His experience in delivering luxury landscape expanded in the 1990s in Australia though his business, which focused on private luxury development.

Lud has also delivered high profile landscape masterplans for several major international projects including: New Caspian City, in Dagestan Russia; the Asian Beach Games 2010 venue and legacy development in Oman, and the White City Baku new town in Azerbaijan. He also provides specialist design review advice on behalf of Cabe, the London Borough of Islington and the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Anthony Thistleton-Smith

Anthony co-founded Waugh Thistleton Architects (1997) having studied architecture at Cambridge University and worked under

Harry Seidler and John Pawson.

He has honed his skills in building design, practice management and community engagement through hands on experience. His Shoreditch-based practice now numbers 30 people and has an international reputation for high quality design and innovative sustainable architecture, through it’s pioneering work with cross laminated timber, about which Anthony has lectured internationally. As well as completing award winning residential schemes, Anthony has led the practice in community based developments such as the Finchley Reform Synagogue, Bushey Cemetery, and the Newstead Country Park and Visitors Centre, where he moved into the area for a year. He now leads seminars on engaging stakeholders. His expertise in Information Technology (IT) and virtual environment design, ensure that the team’s aspirations to provide ecologically responsible and sustainable architecture are realised in physical form.

He is currently focused on how Building Information Modelling (BIM) will radically change building procurement and the architectural profession, and how the role of architects and good design are enhanced through this transformational technology. Anthony chairs the Shoreditch Conservation Area Advisory Committee and is a member of the New Garden Cities Alliance.


James Thomas

James is an experienced Architect specialising in the design of large complex projects.

He is currently project architect at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for the Rabat Grand theatre, a new 1,800 seat opera and concert house under construction in Morocco. Prior to joining the studio, James worked at Heatherwick Studio having responsibilities at a senior level on the Shanghai 2010 World Expo British Pavilion; the award winning Littlehampton café; and £120m Pacific Place retail mall, Hong Kong. James was a founding partner in Make architects (2004), where he was responsible for the award winning brass clad Weymouth Street development, and the 1 million m2 Khabary future city development in Kuwait. He also worked at Foster and Partners on the Beijing International Airport; the World Trade Centre competition; and the 10 Gresham Street office development in London.

Before joining ZHA, James was a Director at YRM Architects, responsible for Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station. A Chartered Architect since 1996, with membership of both the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Architects Registration Board (ARB), he has an advanced knowledge of French, and qualified as a ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’ (LEED) Green associate in 2011.

Sophie Thomas

Sophie has been working in the fields of sustainable design, behaviour change and material process through her design agency, Thomas

Matthews Ltd., for over 17 years, and as Director of Design for Useful Simple Projects. She has extensive practical experience in delivering innovative and highly sustainable design.

Sophie works with complex and multi-layered clients, from the public consultation programme for the Olympic Park Legacy Masterplan, to wayfinding signage and identity for the award winning Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. A long-term interest in materials led Sophie to share her experience of closed-loop thinking with other designers. In 2012, she founded The Great Recovery: a programme to build capacity and understanding of circular design in the materials supply chain, now running through the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). She has been a trustee of the Design Council and is currently Director of Circular Economy at the RSA.

Sophie has assisted global businesses and UK government organisations to define the role of designers within discussions around communication, waste streams, resource efficiency and circular economies. She has worked with major organisations including P7G, Howies and Samsung on new models for circular business, internal communication of sustainable systems, and external sustainability campaigns.

Vaughan Thompson

Vaughan is a chartered planner and qualified urban designer with 27 years experience across the public and private sectors in

Bath, Bristol, London and the South West. In 2010, he formed Place Studio, Royal Town Planning Institute ‘Small Practice of the Year’ (2015).

Vaughan mostly works behind the scenes, stitching together collaborative placemaking processes with sound planning and design advice to help communities and professional teams work together positively to design, deliver and share the benefits of successful places. In Somerset and Gloucestershire, collaboratively designed parish site assessment toolkits helped communities make robust and positive contributions to identifying local plan allocations, achieving remarkable levels of community engagement.

Vaughan is currently appointed consultant urban design advisor for Bath World Heritage Site, and its surrounding villages and market towns. Through pre-application engagement processes, he works with applicants and council officers to achieve high quality and responsive consents. Engaging with communities, elected members and interdisciplinary teams, Vaughan combines engagement techniques, and significant technical knowledge with his personal experience of impaired vision, to shape inclusive and beautiful streets and spaces. He has delivered fundamental public realm changes in Bristol city centre and most recently the conservation of Bath’s Georgian Queen Square.


John Thorp

John is an architect, trained at the Liverpool School of Architecture in the 1960s. The Civic Design ethos there led to a career at

Leeds City Council spanning 45 years: the past 5 in a part-time Advisory Role in Civic Architecture and Design.

Millennium Square in Leeds, inaugurated by Nelson Mandela in 2001, was a pivotal project for the co-operative integration of architecture, urban/landscape design and for creative public/private sector development partnerships. The Leeds Arena Project embedded a large, covered events space and adjacent open space into the fabric of the City Centre. John has been a member of several design review panels since 2000: the CABE National Panels, the 2012 Olympic Games Panels and as a Built Environment Expert (BEE). He co-steered the Yorkshire Forward Urban Design Initiatives and was Civic Architect for Leeds from 1996.

John continues to lead developer/designer workshops. He was awarded a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2005; holds a B.Arch (Hons) Degree; is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects; an Honorary Doctor of Arts, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Penelope Tollitt

Penelope has worked for Wycombe District Council, first as Spatial Planning Manager, now as Head of Planning and Sustainability, since

2003. Between these two roles she spent 6 years as Head of Policy, Design and Neighbourhoods for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In the early years of her career Penelope worked for 10 years as an Urban Designer for Bath City, and a conservation officer at North Wiltshire.

She also briefly ran her own consultancy specialising in community facilitation and sustainable transport, whilst lecturing at the University of the West of England. At Kensington and Chelsea, Penelope led the production of framework masterplans and site briefs, such as for Earl’s Court, Notting Hill Gate, and Kensal Canalside. At Wycombe, she is implementing the masterplan that she had previously initiated, as well as grappling with how to get an adopted local plan that delivers high quality place shaping, through the duty to co-operate without a 5 year land supply.

Penelope has been involved with Cabe since 2008, is occasional chair of the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckingham and Milton Keynes (BOBMK) Design Panel, and has recently been invited to join the Board of the Planning Officers Society (POS) Enterprises.

Matthew Tulley

Matthew has a finance back ground and has been working on major projects for over 15 years. His experience is mostly in the health sector,

currently as Development Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Prior to this Matthew led the capital team at Barts Health, delivering the £1.2bn new hospital scheme at Barts and The Royal London. He also worked with Partnerships UK and HM Treasury developing major infrastructure projects.

Matthew is an expert in project delivery, managing multi-disciplinary professional teams to design and deliver new infrastructure development. Working in the health sector, Matthew has a specific interest in the impact of good design on patient experience, health and wellbeing as well as improving the environment for staff and the public, and enabling the implementation of new models of care.


Glyn Tully

Glyn has over 20 years of experience working with both private and public sector clients in the delivery of urban design and landscape

schemes in the UK and abroad. During this time he has gained a detailed understanding of the complexities of the development process from inception to completion. He has worked widely on landscape-led residential schemes, created development frameworks, and implemented a number of award winning projects.

Specialising in the creation of active and lively townscapes, he has developed an interest in pedestrian/vehicle interface issues, along with how the sustainability agenda can be seamlessly integrated into a development project. Head of the Landscape and Urban Design Group at Leviit Bernstein, he is working on a wide range of urban renewal projects.

Chris Twinn

Chris is an independent consultant focusing on where sustainability goes next. With 36 years’ experience, his

background is in building design, planning and built environment implementation, and includes 28 years with Arup as a director and Arup Fellow.

His projects span the UK and worldwide with many design firsts, among them zero carbon buildings and extra-low resource use prototypes; as well as three years working on Eco-city masterplanning and zero carbon projects in China. Chris was a lead designer on Portcullis House, Westminster; the BedZED project; Kings Cross Central; Stratford City and the Kingspan Lighthouse. The premise behind much of his current work is that using less natural resources should offer lower than business-as-usual costs, for delivering the amenities needed for a prosperous future.

Chris is a chartered engineer; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers; Energy Institute corporate member; Fellow of the Centre of Refurbishment Excellence; UK Green Building Council Ambassador; EDGE Architecture committee member; Historic England Urban panellist, and a Cabe Design Review panellist since 2003. He is founder and Principal of the consultant practice of Twinn Sustainability Innovation.

David Ubaka

David is a Director of D.U.P. Limited - a design and implementation consultancy for clients in the public and private sector.

His expertise spans architecture, public realm, urban design and regeneration. David prepares viability appraisals and development requirements for housing, retail and commercial developments over,or near to, transport infrastructure.


Peter Ullathorne

Peter is a Chartered Architect and Client Advisor accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

He trained at the Architectural Association School, London, has been in practice for nearly forty years, and worked with numerous world-class firms at Partner level, including Gensler and HOK. He now runs his own firm. Peter’s projects include Project Principal for the design of the GCHQ Headquarters, Cheltenham. Following a detailed analysis of working requirements and the creation of an effective brief, historic working practices/cultures were replaced by a single, coherent, dynamic setting that supported the work/well-being of the staff. The circular floor plan promoted a single-culture organisation (“one team, one mission”) and provided an efficient method of enclosing space securely. As Client Advisor he worked closely with the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, East Manchester, to help them deliver their pathfinder group of new schools, as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme.

Peter is a member of the RIBA Professional Conduct Panel and an Examiner in Professional Practice at the Architectural Association. He provides expert testimony for dispute resolution. He is editor of the book: ‘Being an Effective Construction Client’ by RIBA Publications 2015, and a Magistrate.

Dr. Deb Upadhyaya

Deb is a professionally trained architect/urban designer/planner, leading delivery of exemplar housing, regeneration and

sustainable masterplanning/urban design initiatives, both in public and private sector (UK and India) for over 15 years.

He advocates an integrated multidisciplinary approach, enabling delivery of ‘shared’ vision through continual alignment and management of key governance, investment and funding issues. Deb works as Spatial Planning Manager with a national remit (specialist in urban design - holistic placemaking) at the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS). He also serves as an independent design panel member for Sheffield Sustainable Development and Design Panel, a former Essex Design Initiative. Passionate about value creation through delivery of sustainable high quality built environments, urbanism, evolution of cities and their centres, he pursues independent practice-led research, and proactively engages with fellow professionals/bodies.

Deb has delivered lectures at national and international symposiums and conferences; gained his Doctorate in Philosophy and Executive Masters in Business Administration from University of Sheffield; holds chartered membership at the Royal Town Planning Institute and Chartered Management Institute, and is an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism. Deb is also a registered architect at the Council of Architecture, India.

Jo Van Heyningen

Joanna founded her practice in 1977 and formed van Heyningen and Haward Architects with Birkin Haward in 1982; she has now

retired from the practice. Joanna has been involved on van Heyningen and Haward’s award-winning buildings including Lerner Court, Clare College, Cambridge; Corfield Court, St. John’s College, Cambridge; Michael Croft Theatre at Alleyn’s School, Dulwich; Latymer Upper School Performing Arts Centre; Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University; Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre (National Trust); Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Environment and Education Centre; West Ham Station, Jubillee Line Extension and Newnham College Library Rare Books Room.

Joanna has always sought to contribute to the wider built environment by giving her time to, amongst others, the Royal Institute of British Architects in several capacities; principally as an Award assessor and judge of the Stirling Prize. She is also a Trustee of the Building Centre Trust; an external examiner at several schools of architecture, and a Design Review panellist at Cabe over many years. She currently co-chairs the Oxford Design Review Panel.


Paula Vandergert

Paula has over twenty five years’ experience as a sustainability professional. She is a research fellow at the University of East London Sustainability

Research Institute, and a director of not-for-profit enterprise, Resilient Communities.

She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a postgraduate certificate in urban design skills from the University of Westminster. Paula is currently part of the research team for the EU-funded “Transitioning Towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability (TURAS)” initiative, which brings urban communities and businesses together with local authorities and researchers, to collaborate on developing practical new solutions for more sustainable and resilient European cities. As part of this project, she works closely with local authorities and businesses in East London, Brussels and Rome on major urban sustainability initiatives in each of these cities. Prior to this role, Paula was the project manager for CABE’s Sustainable Cities programme, which was developed with the eight English Core Cities.

Atam Verdi

Atam is a chartered surveyor and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) registered valuer, with over 23 years’ development

consultancy experience.

He has been involved in assisting clients with preparation of planning policy, development briefs, masterplanning, heritage, regeneration, economic viability and feasibility studies. He founded AspinallVerdi – Property Regeneration Consultants in 2009 and works with both public and private sector clients across England. Examples of work include: a Growth Strategy for Newhaven, East Sussex, undertaking viability work for Sandwell and Harborough Borough Councils, and advising Heritage Lottery with respect to the Heritage Enterprise fund. Atam has assisted Design Council Cabe with their Active by Design project at West Howe in Bournemouth.

He regularly speaks at conferences, is a Regional Board Member of RICS, and a Director of Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre – a social enterprise providing community space, as well as a café and co-working space.

Andrew von Bradsky

Andy is an architect with over 30 years’ experience in the design and delivery of residential development for all sectors.

He is a consultant to businesses, housing delivery agencies and the public sector, providing advice on housing related issues, drawing from his experience as former Chairman of PRP Architects LLP. He leads research projects that advance industry knowledge for policy makers, clients, end users and communities. Recent project successes include: the award winning Portobello Square regeneration project for a housing association; and the Lewisham Gateway town centre regeneration project for a commercial developer, for which he was the Partner responsible. He has played a leading role in other regeneration, new settlement and commercial projects throughout England.

Chair of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Housing Advisory Group; member of a committee that reviews finance and development proposals for a large housing association; and sits on an advisory panel of the research body, National House-Building Council (NHBC) Foundation. He is a Board member of the Housing Forum, a membership organisation that represents the supply chain in housing, and was a member of the government appointed Challenge Panel that advised the Housing Standards Review from a cross industry perspective.


Charles Wagner

Charles was Head of Planning and Urban Advice at English Heritage (EH), until April 2015.

A Chartered Town Planner and member of the Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation, he studied Civil Engineering, then Building Conservation with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and Architectural History. With a varied career at EH: carrying out the listed building resurvey; doing listed building casework in London, and historic areas casework in the Midlands/East Anglia. Charles developed public realm policy/practice in London (1999) and produced: ‘Streets for All’ Streetscape Manuals. He worked on the EH/CABE guidance on tall buildings: Heritage Works guidance for developers, on dealing with heritage on their sites and Enabling Development Guidance (2005).

Charles worked on the Thames Gateway, seconded to the Homes and Communities Agency (2009) as Strategic Historic Environment Adviser. Charles assisted with EH’s input into the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and its guidance (2011); developed EH’s guidance on Neighbourhood Planning and Localism; its farm building’s assessment tool and micro-generation advice. Charles now runs his own consultancy; is an SPAB Guardian, President of the Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings; sits on the Haringey Quality Review Panel; West London Amenity, and Neighbourhood Planning Groups.

Nigel Wakefield

Nigel is the founder of Node Urban Design, with twenty years’ experience in the public/private sectors; previously Director of Urban

Design at Turley Associates, and Associate Director at Atkins.

In addition to urban design and masterplanning experience, he is a planner and landscape architect and has worked on highly varied projects for broad ranging public/private sector clients. Nigel has experience of large scale urban design and masterplanning in the UK, Europe, Middle East and China. Previous experience includes: the design of new settlements; city centre regeneration; major urban extensions, through to smaller scale responses and to site specific issues. Experienced in the preparation of public realm strategies, design codes, area action plans, urban design guidance and public consultation exercises.

With experience of design review/enabling, he is currently an enabler for both MADE in the West Midlands and OPUN in the East Midlands. Nigel has provided expert advice to URBACT’s European ‘support for cities’ program in Hungary, Romania and Poland looking at public/ private partnerships and regeneration of brownfield sites. He spoke at an international urban design conference on green infrastructure and water sensitive urban design in large-scale urban extensions.

Danna Walker

Danna is a Built Environment Professional at the Construction Industry Council. Her career spans over 20 years in the construction

and built environment sector, and has encompassed a variety of roles from shop floor electrician, to Architect (DIP Arch), to strategic projects manager in support of industry.

A passionate advocate for the industry, the common thread throughout her career has been a desire to improve the built environment directly as a practitioner, and the industry by making a tangible difference through a range of projects, developed to address the challenges of accessibility, skills development and improved diversity.

As an architect, Danna specialised in regeneration, educational projects and community engagement. She is a mentoring champion and founded the innovative Fluid Diversity Mentoring Programme, designed to provide support for practitioners seeking career progression. Danna serves as Chair of the Royal Institute of British Architect’s, equality, diversity and inclusion advisory group Architect’s for Change (AfC) which launched the Role Models Project (2015). She is honoured to have been named a finalist in the Precious Awards 2015 and to be a Trustee for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.


Dr. Helen Walker

Helen is an urban planner and built environment strategic policy analyst, focusing on the practical delivery of sustainable

communities/places, and development of the skills required to achieve these; previously worked for the Department of Communities and Local Government and held senior posts at the Environment Agency. As senior adviser for the government’s Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, she was responsible for professional support for neighbourhood regeneration, Housing Market Renewal Areas and local authorities.

Helen developed new protocols for community engagement and design quality in sustainable communities and created learning support for design-based economic objectives, as national advisor at the Local Government Association. National commissions have included: specialist advisor to two House of Commons Select Committees, and production of the National Competency Framework for local authority planners for the Department of Communities and Local Government. Helen is a former local authority team leader working in planning, community engagement, economic regeneration, sustainable development and conservation.

Previously chair of urban development and regeneration at the University of Westminster, she now teaches on the MSc Town Planning course at the University of Brighton. Civic Trust Awards national panel judge; a former Cabe enabler (2008 –2011), Helen sits on Brighton and Hove City Council’s City Sustainability Partnership.

Lorna Walker

Lorna is a sustainability consultant with over 40 years’ of experience in the built environment sector.

She has her own practice and is an Examining Inspector with the Planning Inspectorate. A former Director of Arup, where she was leader of the global environmental business; and former Cabe commissioner having had responsibility for sustainability, and health and wellbeing. Recent projects at the Planning Inspectorate, examining nationally significant infrastructure projects, include a nuclear power station, an off shore wind farm and a strategic rail freight interchange. She has a BSc in Chemistry and Mathematics and MSc in Civil Engineering, concentrating on public health; and honorary doctorate of engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Lorna is a recognised authority in the fields of sustainable development, climate change, urban regeneration, water quality and waste treatment. Member of numerous policy-making panels, she is often consulted in the preparation of proofs of evidence, planning enquires and litigation cases, and as an independent technical reviewer of her peer’s work. She has travelled extensively in her work, and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield.

Cindy Walters

Cindy was born in Australia and studied architecture in South Africa. She moved to London to work for Foster and Partners (1990), and set up

Walters and Cohen, with Michál Cohen (1994). Cindy has worked on a diverse range of education, leisure, cultural and commercial projects, including award-winning work for Bedales School in Hampshire; Ryde School on the Isle of Wight, and the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens.

Outside the practice, Cindy regularly contributes to universities as an external examiner. Since 2007, she has been involved with the Royal Institute of British Architects Awards Group, including roles on the Lubetkin Prize and Stirling Prize jury; and as a judge for the President’s Research Awards. Cindy is currently undertaking a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In 2012 Cindy and Michál were awarded the inaugural Architects Journal Woman Architect of the Year Award.


Vincent Wang

Vincent is a development manager and non-executive director who has been independent since 1994.

With over thirty years experience in development, Vincent has successfully led various projects and organisations through complex and challenging circumstances in the commercial, arts and healthcare sectors, achieving outstanding results. He was a founder member and senior director of Stanhope (London’s premier commercial developer) from the company’s inception until it was sold to British Land. As Stanhope’s development director, Vincent led the team that established new benchmarks of quality and implementation for property development in the UK. Since then he has worked independently as an entrepreneur and consultant. In the City, he established Corpnex, an innovating high quality serviced-office start-up, and was senior development consultant on The Pinnacle tower for Union Investment Real Estate.

He is currently chairman of the Capital Committee of the board of Mountview Theatre Academy, devoted to building a new drama school in Peckham Rye, and was previously chairman of Hampstead Theatre, successfully developing the first new theatre in London for twenty-five years, with an award-winning design by Rab Bennetts. He currently manages complex development projects and trouble-shoots difficult property-related situations.

Jonathan Ward

Jonathan is a building engineer in the London Arup Buildings team, specialising in the development of sustainable design

strategies and the translation of these into low impact building projects.

Recent projects include: the Athletes Village, The Leadenhall Building, and the award winning Siemens Crystal. He has 25 years’ experience as project manager, lead design engineer and project director for a broad range of projects, many with internationally recognised architects, coordinating the work of the building services and structural disciplines, plus input from the wide range of Arup specialist teams. His environmental assessment experience includes the use of Arup Sustainable Project Appraisal Routine (SPeAR), Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and the Code for Sustainable Homes.

Jonathan is experienced in the preparation of planning application documentation, and coordinating input from all members of the design team. He plays an active role in London planning matters, providing policy input, commenting on emerging policy and actively participating in local planning consultations. Jonathan is inspired to integrate the work of multi-disciplinary design teams to develop practical projects that reduce their environmental impact and explore the challenge of sustainable design for the future.

James Warne

After 25 years within the construction industry, mainly as a Consultant Engineer, the last 15 years have been spent focusing on environmental

engineering and sustainability. James is recognised within the industry for his work as an Environmental Engineer, sharing knowledge through lecturing and through his role as Chair of Sustainability, at the UK’s largest architectural practice (BDP). He has extensive experience across a range of sectors, from large mixed use masterplans down to small scale detail designs.


Elanor Warwick

Elanor’s expertise is in studying and understanding the built environment, and applying this learning and research in practice.

Following a decade in architecture and urban design practice, she became a research fellow at University College London, then Research Manager at the Peabody Trust, followed by eight years as Head of Research at CABE. Here she managed a diverse and extensive research programme, covering all sectors of the built environment and the design process, providing evidence to shape national policy, and embedding good design practices within the industry. With interests spanning well-designed buildings to sustainable cities, many research projects focus on the interaction of housing and places: Lifetime Neighbourhoods for the Greater London Authority, CABE’s Housing Audits, and particularly housing density and space standards. Her Doctorate explored the role of defensible space in remaking failing post-war housing estates.

Elanor is currently Head of Strategic Research at Affinity Sutton Housing Association, exploring the design of social housing, estate regeneration, affordability and development viability. She is a postgraduate supervisor at Cambridge and the Bartlett, University College London, where she teaches a module on housing design for planners. Elanor is a member of the Edge, the Academy of Urbanism and is an Urbanista.

Paul Watson

Paul is an independent planning and urban design consultant, who advises major players in the development industry, as well as

supporting the Planning Officers Society as a Past President, and advising the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is a member of MADE Board and Design Review Panel; an External Examiner at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham; and an occasional guest lecturer and public speaker.

Paul was Strategic Director for Regeneration and Development with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (until February 2013), where his portfolio included: strategic and local planning; urban design; development management; economic development; landscape; housing and transport for an area covering Birmingham Airport; National Exhibition Centre; the proposed HS2 line and station; Jaguar Land Rover; North Solihull (a regionally significant multi-sector regeneration project); mature suburbs; growing town centres; countryside and rural villages.

Paul practiced in local government for over thirty five years and demonstrated a commitment to and delivery of proactive and positive planning and urban design, at all spatial levels and across a wide spectrum of contexts. In private practice, he maintains his commitment to finding creative, attractive and pragmatic solutions to planning and urban design challenges and opportunities.

Mary Webster

Mary is an educationalist, passionate about enabling children to fulfil their potential through good education, and in turn

good school design. For 18 years she taught in five secondary schools and was Deputy Head in two . Mary led one of her schools through a new build project, then managed the consultancy Key Educational Associates, providing education and design support for projects across the UK.

She works as an education design consultant and is studying a MSc in Psychology to further her knowledge of how we learn. Mary understands how schools work in terms of planning, operations and learning environments. She uses her child-centred approach and school management skills to support schools, architects, Information and Communications Technology providers, and construction professionals. Mary often acted as an interface between clients and the design team to facilitate good working relationships. She has worked on numerous projects, two key projects: Essex Building Schools for the Future, as education consultant; and Barnhill Community High (client).

Mary worked with the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment CABE (2003-2010); contributed to publications; enabled projects; provided training to CABE Enablers, and was a member of the Design Review Panel. She was a Governor at three secondary, and one primary school.


Camilla Ween

Camilla is an architect and a Harvard University Loeb Fellow; an expert in the built environment, sustainable cities and transportation.

Camilla worked for Transport for London for 11 years, advising the mayor on major developments in London, such as the regeneration of King’s Cross, Earl’s Court and White City. She is a director of Goldstein Ween Architects, leading on urbanism and transportation. Recent projects include: a World Bank transport strategy for Kano, Nigeria and a cycle parking facility in Holborn. Developing strategies for improving the quality of cities and the integration of public transport systems is at the forefront of her work and she regularly contributes to panels looking at these issues.

She is an author of books and articles; her book: Future Cities (published 2014) looks at the challenges facing future megacities; she is currently researching a book on development and regeneration in South America. Camilla is a regular lecturer at leading international universities and conferences; president of Women’s Transportation Seminar London, which promotes women in the transport profession, and chair of Spacelink Learning Foundation, which encourages Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics subjects in schools, using space science as the ‘hook’ to engage young pupils.

Sarah Weir

Sarah is Chief Executive of Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. Previously she was Chief Executive of The Legacy List, the

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity set up to encourage creative connections between people and the park, with a focus on arts and culture, education and skills. Sarah was Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy for Olympic Delivery Authority; Executive Director, Arts Council England; London and Executive Director of the Almeida Theatre.

Sarah started her career in the Lloyd’s insurance market. She worked for Aldgate Group Brokers, where she rose from office junior to non-marine managing director during a 15 year career and was the first female Managing Director in Lloyd’s. Following a move from business into the arts, she then worked at Purdy Hicks Gallery, Arts and Busines,s and the Royal Academy of Arts. She has a History of Art BA from Birkbeck College (1993-7), an OBE for services to the arts (2012) and is a Fellow of Birkbeck College. Sarah is a Trustee of The Alzheimer’s Society.

Matthew Wells

Matthew has over 30 years’ experience in the design of building structures and bridges. His particular area of interest is in developing the

interface between structural design and architecture. As creative director, Matthew maintains an overview of the conceptual content of all the projects in the company. He has delivered a wide range of new-build and refurbishment structures including arts centres, housing, schools and offices, as well as a number of public realm and infrastructure projects. He has served on the Architectural Association Council and Cabe Olympic review panel.

He is visiting professor of architectural engineering at the University of Leeds. Selected projects include: New Wear Crossing; Somerset House Staircase; Almere Windhinder; St Charles Way Catholic Sixth Form College; Chichester Museum; Stadthaus; the Bluecoat; Royal Victoria Dock Footbridge and the Orangery, Prague Castle.


Dr. Michael Wells

Mike is a professional ecologist and eco-urbanist, with 25 years of consultancy experience and 35 years in ecological science.

He led the ecological design for the Athletes’ Village in Stratford for the 2012 Olympiad, and the regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula. Mike is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, a Board Member of the Operational Board of the Sustainable Environment Foundation, a Board Member of the Bristol Urban Design Forum and a Committee Member of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity. He has trained regional staff within English Partnerships (now Homes and Communities Agency) around the UK on designing for biodiversity. Mike has lectured on the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics. He assisted in providing evidence for the Farrell review of architecture in the UK, has chaired the main lecture forum of Ecobuild, and adjudicated in national design competitions.

He is currently serving on Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method’s Strategic Ecological Framework Strategic Policy Working Group. In 2006 he co-founded Biodiversity by Design Ltd through which he pursues opportunities for innovative design of green and blue infrastructure, working in the creative gaps between ecology and other disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, civil and structural engineering and art.

Jane Wernick

Jane is a structural engineer. She founded Jane Wernick Associates in 1998, has won many awards and continues to work with many

leading architects. Projects include: the Young Vic Theatre, the Kew treetop walkway, and the Living Architecture Houses. She worked for Arup (1976-1998) and set up and ran Arup’s Los Angeles office (1986-88).

Jane was seconded to Birdair Structures, Buffalo, New York (1980-81). Her most notable Arup project was the Millennium Wheel. Jane was a CABE National Design Review Panel member; a member of the multi-disciplinary built environment think tank, The Edge; member of the steering panel of RIBA’s think tank, Building Futures, edited: ‘Building Happiness – Architecture to Make You Smile’. Jane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), an Honorary Fellow of RIBA and was a member of the Equal Opportunities Task Force of the Construction Industry Council between 1998 and 2013 (as chair in 2010). She has taught at numerous schools of architecture and engineering including Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (1989 and 1995), a Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association (1998-2003), The John Portman Visiting Critic at Georgia Tech, Atlanta and RAE Visiting Professor of Design at Southampton University. Jane is currently serving her third term on the Council of the Architectural Association.

Michael Westley

Michael is a Chartered Landscape Architect and University Lecturer in Architecture with over 25 years’ practice experience in the UK,

Europe, Australia and U.S.A.

His practice and academic research focus is in Wellbeing from Green Infrastructure, through Inclusive Design. Michael’s practice and research work can be sampled in the following recent publication: ‘Design for Healing Spaces- Therapeutic Gardens’ by Daniel Winterbottom and Amy Wagenfield (Timber Press 2015); and at North York Moors National Park Visitors Centre; Sutton Bank, where Westley Design Ltd. has recently completed an exciting new play learning and interpretation landscape.

As well as Director of the Landscape Architecture Consultancy, Westley Design Ltd., Michael is currently also: Lecturer in Architecture at Plymouth University; Panel Member for the South West, Somerset County, Devon County and Cornwall County Design Review Panels, and Board Member of Cornwall Development Company Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre. Michael’s previous appointments have included: Founding Practice Principal at Groundwork Plymouth Area; Programme Manager, Sensory Trust (Eden Project) and Department of Health NHS Design Review Panel Member. He has been a guest lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design, University College Cornwall, and Cambridge University School of Architecture, and Scottish Agricultural College (University of Glasgow)


Antony Whitehead

Antony is an architect with 35 years’ post qualification experience, who has been influential in private sector, Local Government,

Development Corporation, and Central Government (Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Home Office). Antony is the founder of TWA Architects. He championed Better Defence Buildings and Better Police Buildings, and has enabled numerous projects in these sectors. He also developed and is utilising the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) design evaluation tool. In government, cost and value are twin issues that are never far away, so it has been necessary for Antony to be pragmatic and resourceful. Antony is a Home Office Design Review Panellist and Enabler; member of the Place Alliance Core Supporters Group; member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and the Institute for Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC). He is currently focused on the coordinated delivery of infrastructure led regeneration, where key challenges for example, in the provision of housing, will require an emphasis on partnership and delivery.

Sarah Wigglesworth

Sarah heads up her own architectural practice based in London which she founded in 1993.

She is also Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Her interests lie in raising the quality of everyday environments; she applies intellectual clarity and rigorous research methods to explore new spatial and technical solutions to the design of sustainable environments. She has championed the use of recycled and ecological materials, passive design and simple controls that users understand. The practice’s work in education, housing, cultural buildings and masterplanning has been recognised by numerous awards. She currently leads the Designing for Wellbeing in Environments for Later Life (DWELL) research project at the University of Sheffield. This is an interdisciplinary design research project that is using participatory and co-design strategies, to develop innovations in housing and neighbourhoods suited to older people.

Simultaneously the practice is designing specialist housing for this age group. Sarah has been an advocate for the greater participation of women in architecture across all roles, and a recognition of women’s knowledge in changing architecture’s values. She is member of the Parliamentary Design Commission and was awarded the title of Royal Designer for Industry in 2012 by the Royal Society of Arts.

Lindsey Wilkinson

Lindsey is a qualified Chartered Landscape Architect, with over eighteen years’ experience working with a variety of public sector and

private clients. She has previously worked at design practices Gillespies and LDA Design; global multidisciplinaries Atkins and RHDHV, and historic landscape specialists TLA.

Lindsey now operates as a freelance practitioner, specialising as a landscape architect and green infrastructure consultant, with historic landscape and greenspace expertise. Over her career, she has developed a specialism in green space, parks and public realm projects. Lindsey is used to combining sensitive restoration of historic landscapes with the needs of contemporary users, to give realistic solutions to modern issues.

Recently awarded Fellowship of the Landscape Institute (LI), she has a long standing involvement with the Landscape Institute’s professional Chartership scheme, the P2C, as an Examiner and Supervisor. Lindsey currently sits on the Landscape Institute’s Education and Membership Committee, and acted as Judge for the LI Awards this year. Panel Member for Design: South East’s Design Review, she also sits on the Architectural Panel for the National Trust, reviewing property proposals and strategy from a landscape design perspective.


Marcus Willcocks

Marcus specialises in spatial, social and co-design practices, across shared and built-environments. His experience spans over fifteen years as

creative consultant, and separately, Research Fellow and Designer with the Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design centres at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He holds a Master’s degree in Design and Public Space (Barcelona), a BA(Hons) in Product Design (London), plus a Diploma in Crime Prevention, through Urban Design and Planning (Copenhagen).

Marcus has delivered and co-delivered best practice, award-winning and published projects through people-centred design, and action-led research. He particularly works to promote Sociable Safe Places; Social Wellbeing and Urban Play; Community-Led Design and Spatial Engagement; and Cycling, Walking and Sharing Spaces. Recent projects include: Confident Vibrant Oslo street furniture design and evalution with Institute of Transport Economics, Centre for Transport Research; Graffolution, European FP7 practice-led research project and Rantzausgade, Copenhagen street experience designs, with COST TU1203 and Nørrebro Renewal.

Marcus has developed and advised on practice, strategy and policy. His work is incorporated within Government South Australia Atlas of Urban Excellence, and as Design Council’s Designing Out Crime Guide. Two of his designs are located in the permanent collection at MoMA, New York.

Martin Willey

Martin is a Chartered Town Planner and Secretary, and Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing with 48 years in

practice in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Schemes of note are: the Bridgewater Hall scheme in Manchester; and Cedars Hall in Wells: a contemporary design of an international teaching and learning facility in the grounds of a grade 2 listed property and garden, part of Wells Cathedral School campus, a specialist Music School. Major roles include: Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, Judge of Royal Institute of British Architects Awards, and creator of council design awards in Test Valley, Harrogate and Aylesbury Vale.

Martin has worked with a wide range of architects throughout the country promoting good design, in particular contemporary design in a heritage environment. They include the late Sir Colin Stansfield Smith and his team, Nick Thompson of RHWL and most recently Eric Parry RA. Martin’s work across the sectors means he is well placed to help secure design solutions that address a wide range of agendas - commercial, community and regulatory.

Finn Williams

Finn is an architect-planner and advocate for design within the public sector. He worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, General

Public Agency, and Croydon Council’s Placemaking team before joining the Greater London Authority, where he is Regeneration Area Manager for North West London.

Finn is the founder of public sector planning thinktank NOVUS and independent research practice Common Office. He currently teaches architecture at the Royal College of Art and urban design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and is a co-curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016). Finn is a director and trustee of the Planning Officers Society, trustee of the Friends of Arnold Circus, vice chair of the Tower Hamlets Design Review Panel, board member of Urban Design London, and a Champion for the Farrell Review.


Keith Williams

Keith is a chartered architect and founder and design director of Keith Williams Architects, a leading architectural and urban masterplanning

firm. Keith has served on the CABE National Design Review Panel since 2008, is co-chair of Design South-East, and chair of Lewisham Design Review Panel. He has participated in/chaired over 150 Design Reviews in London and the UK regions.

He works internationally across many building sectors and has received nearly 40 major awards for buildings that he has designed. Projects include: the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury; the Novium Museum, Chichester; the Unicorn Theatre, London; the Long House, London, and in Ireland: Athlone Civic Centre; the Luan Art Gallery, Athlone; and the National Opera House, Wexford. He is currently working on projects in Ireland and Canada in addition to the UK.

He has lectured widely on his work and in 2010 was made Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture at Zhengzhou University, China. Keith is a Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has judged numerous architectural competitions and awards schemes and his work has been published worldwide.

Neil Williamson

Neil is an independent consultant with well over 30 years’ urban and rural experience as a landscape architect, most notably in

implementation and project management, community liaison, landscape planning, development control, major infrastructure, public inquiries and planning policy.

He has been involved over many years in the development of design policy at local and national level, including Design Review – Principles and Practice jointly issued (2009) by CABE and the design professional bodies, and at local community level with the production of guidance promoting: ‘Local Distinctiveness’. He has worked extensively on ‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’ (CPTED). He is a Past President of the Landscape Institute (2008 –2010) and current member of the Islington Design Review Panel. In 2005 he helped launch a new regional design centre (Solent Centre for Architecture and Design), and remained on its board of directors until 2013. Following a BA in Psychology and Physiology at the University of Oxford, Neil subsequently gained his MA in landscape design at the University of Sheffield.

He is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, with extensive management experience including partnership development, cross-disciplinary working, community planning, strategic business planning and risk management.

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan, Principal and UK Healthcare Sector Lead, Stantec, leads the healthcare sector for Stantec in the UK, developing and directing both

local and international projects.

He believes passionately in the power of thoughtful creative design to empower and enrich human experience and efficacy, in complex socially purposed buildings. Jonathan has led a wide range of projects during more than three decades of architectural practice: clinics, community centres, mental health units, general and specialist tertiary hospitals. His experience includes both public and private sector clients, strategic masterplanning, new-build and remodelling.

He has also led academic research and residential projects. Jonathan has worked in advisory roles on major public sector developments and served on advisory bodies such as the NHS Estates Design Review Panel. He is a regular speaker at healthcare events and conferences.


Clare Wright

Clare studied at the Glasgow School of Art. After working at Rock Townsend she joined Howell Killick Partridge and Amis, a firm with a keen

interest in architectural preoccupations similar to her own, such as the legibility of buildings; coherent use of heavyweight materials, and construction that stands the test of time.

In 1994 Clare established Wright & Wright with husband Sandy and has worked on projects such as the Architectural Association Masterplan, a library for Magdalen College, Oxford and the Women’s Library. Clare has sat on the Building Regulations Advisory Committee at the DETR (now CLG), working particularly on provisions for the disabled and the elderly as well as sustainability. She was instrumental in developing Lifetime Homes for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She has been a design assessor for the Arts Council of England, the RIBA and the Civic Trust and was Vice-President of the RIBA 2005-2007.

Clare currently sits on the Oxford Design Review Panel, and the Historic England Urban Panel. Clare continues to lead on projects and is working on a new Library and Archive at Lambeth Palace and The Geffrye Museum. She was awarded an MBE for services to Architecture in 2005.

Geoff Wright

Geoff is a town planner and urbanist with 37 years’ experience in both public and private sectors.

His consultancy GW Planning is involved in several UK cities. As Birmingham’s Head of City Centre Planning (1990s), he led award winning plans/projects, working closely with Council Leaders and Chief Executives. He was responsible for city centre ‘quarter plans’; oversaw the remodelling of streets, squares and canalsides; commissioned the Birmingham Urban Design Strategy; and negotiated major schemes including: Brindleyplace and the Bullring. Geoff wrote Manchester’s Inner Area Strategy (1980s); co-authored its City Centre Plan and Metrolink bid, and implemented pedestrianisation and environmental works.

He has secured consents for university, commercial, retail, office, housing and mixed use schemes, and for a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital. He authored: Protecting Design Quality in Planning for CABE (2003); provides expert support to neighbourhood planning for Cabe and Locality. Geoff is a board member and design review panel member of MADE, and has chaired Urban Vision North Staffordshire’s Design Review Panel.

Nigel Wright

Nigel is an Architect, Client Adviser, Facilitator, and Project Manager with thirty years’ construction sector experience.

He provides strategic design and project direction for clients, across a wide variety of new and existing projects and programmes. Prior to founding Client Advisor Business-Wright CLASS Solutions Ltd; Nigel worked as Senior Education Architect and Technical Advisor to the Department for Education; seconded within the School Capital Design Team, on the Academies and Building Schools for the Future Programmes. He worked for a leading international multi-disciplinary design and consultancy business for seventeen years, with ten years as team leader of a successful education studio; responsible for primary, secondary, and special needs new build and refurbishment projects.

He is a volunteer planning assessor to Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Council; National Building Specification Panel Member; and Association for Project Management Special Interest Group Panel Member for stakeholder engagement. Nigel is also a Construction Industry Council registered Design Quality Facilitator.


Tony Wyatt

Tony has worked as a specialist urban design, architectural and historic environment advisor/practitioner for over 36 years in the urban

design, masterplanning, planning, conservation and regeneration sectors.

He previously won a CABE Public Sector Design Champion Award (2005), when he was Urban Design and Conservation Group Manager at Newcastle City Council, where he worked for 20 years. He co-founded +Plus Urban Design Ltd with Richard Charge, another Built Environment Expert (2011), where he is responsible for developing their urban design, placemaking and masterplanning service for a range of public/private sector clients, as well as local community groups. Tony was previously Urban Design Director at _space group, and also at Ryder Architecture.

He is Vice Chair of the national Historic Towns and Villages Forum; Vice Chair of both the Integreat Plus Yorkshire Design Service, and also the Design North East Review Panel, together with being a panellist/enabler with Places Matter! North West. He is an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, and founder panellist on their Place Partnering Panel. Tony has been on the CABE design review panel since 2006 and was a Home Office design panellist.

Louise Wyman

Louise is an Area Manager in the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) Midlands Team, based in Birmingham.

She provides strategic direction on sustainable development, masterplanning and urban design across the Midlands region; responsible for delivering HCA’s planning, investment and development priorities in the South Midlands. Louise is a Chartered Surveyor and Landscape Architect. She worked as a development consultant with Cushman and Wakefield in the UK/Eastern Europe (early 1990’s) after which she gained a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, and was a Masterplanner with Hart Howerton in San Francisco.

Louise joined English Partnerships (2001) as Urban Design Manager, and led a series of initiatives aimed at improving the design quality of English Partnerships, and later the HCA’s built projects. She leads the HCA’s Delivering Quality Places training programme and the Midlands Design Team. Louise is a member of Harvard’s Alumni Council and serves on the Ambassador Committee supporting the exchange of ideas and innovative practice between the US/Europe. Louise was a Cabe Enabler and is currently a member of OPUN’s connect group.

Suzie Zuber

Suzie practised as an architect for 11 years with Terry Farrell, 3D Reid and ECD Architects, working on a variety of projects with a focus

on energy conservation and neighbourhood regeneration, before joining Open-City (2008) to focus on community engagement and design support. Since joining Open-City, Suzie has overseen the development and expansion of programmes for young people and communities, empowering young people and community groups to influence the creation of their future environment. She works closely with design professionals, London councils, young people and residents, demystifying the design process to ensure smooth engagement in the regeneration process. Working with the residents of the Andover Estate in North London, Suzie guided the Neighbourhood Forum through the development of a masterplan, providing them with design awareness training, and facilitating design workshops to agree the content of their vision for a future estate.

Through the Open-City education and My City Too! programmes, Suzie has a wealth of experience engaging young people in the design of their built environment both as site specific research projects and as curriculum related workshops.