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The Highways England Design Review Panel are a group of 36 Built Environment Experts, including a Chair and two Vice-Chairs, appointed by Design Council to meet the specific range of disciplines and skills required by Highways England in providing an independent, expert Design Review service.

Highways England Design Review Panel

Design Review meeting © Haarala Hamilton


John is one of our most experienced Chairs. He has a background as an architect and has designed a range of infrastructure buildings and installations such as the Crossness Sludge Cake Building and the Old Ford Water Treatment Plant. In his Cabe chairing role he has delivered multiple reviews as co-chair of the Thames Tideway review panel. The panel has been looking at the key locations along the Thames and away from the river where this grand engineering project comes to the surface. It will create new public spaces or provide new built form in closed Treatment Sites that nonetheless are visible to passers-by.

John’s approach to the Tideway Panel has been to encourage the design teams to maximise the opportunity in their schemes, while acknowledging the engineering requirements underground and particularly to enhance the potential user experience and public benefit over time.

John Lyall

Recently John has chaired a series of reviews and workshops for the Lake Lothing Third Crossing Bridge in Suffolk and the review of the A14 Highways England road scheme. Both of these schemes have benefited from John’s ability to set the tone for the day as a positive engaging experience for the design teams and other stakeholders. A critical part of a successful review is for John as Chair of the panel to encourage the design team to share their design thinking and be able to discuss challenging issues in a supportive environment. Panel members are very much encouraged to share their expertise and views through the design review process in a way that helps move the project forward to the benefit of everyone and which secures the maximum public benefit from the public funds being invested.


John Lyall

Chair

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, projects on Cardiff Bay and renovations of classic buildings such as the Corn Exchange and White Cloth Hall in Leeds.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. He has served on Design Review panels for many years (Cardiff Bay; Southampton; CABE; Peterborough, Haringey, the London Legacy Development Corporation and Kent); John has chaired a number of panels for Design Council Cabe including the A14 NSIP review for Highways England, Thames Tideway, Thurrock Design Advice Panel and the Lake Lothing Third Crossing Bridge Panel; Client Design Adviser (British Library); enabler for schools/courthouses and is external examiner at Greenwich University, Brighton, London Met and The Bartlett School of Architecture. John has served on the councils of RIBA and Architectural Association (AA), and chaired the RIBA Trust.

Lynda Addison

Vice-Chair

Lynda is a planner and transport planner who has worked for/within the public sector for more than 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 Association; 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 Institute/Transport Planning Network (RTPI/TPS) award in 2010.

Martin Stockley

Vice-Chair

Martin has worked as a civil, structural, transport and infrastructure engineer since 1971, in public and private sectors and 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 1997), was lead consultant for New Islington Millennium Village. Martin also engineered a number of Manchester’s iconic buildings including: No1 Deansgate, Urbis (now the National Football Museum) and Chips. In the early 1990s’ Martin developed an approach to engineering streets and public spaces which improved safety, environment and function. Much of this work is embedded in the ‘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, as chair; Midlands; Yorkshire; Oxford; London Legacy; Bath; English Heritage, and CABE as chair. His infrastructure design review experience includes Bath and North East Somerset Transport Commission, Crossrail, Thames Tideway Tunnel and HS2. He currently divides his time between Moscow and the UK.


Gideon Amos

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

Maayan Ashkenazi

Maayan has worked at the intersection of anthropology, architecture and urban design for more than 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.

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.


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 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; developed in 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 more than 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 and the design and implementation of a productive housing estate landscape, including a residents’ foraging plan and the sensitive relocation 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 Cabe Oxford Design Review Panel.

Andrew Cameron

Andrew is an engineer with a background in transportation, architectural engineering and urban design. He has more than 20 years’ experience in how we can plan for movement while 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 £8bn 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.


Richard Cass

Richard qualified initially as an architect and landscape architect. He has more than 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 Design Council 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.

Peter Clash

Peter founded Clash Associates Architects in London in 1994, working in urban design and masterplanning, 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 Design Council Cabe since 2009.

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 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: 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; 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 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.


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.

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 more than 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 CABE’s 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.

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.


Noel Farrer

Noel is the founding Director of Farrer Huxley Associates, set up in 1995. He is recent past-president and Fellow of the Landscape Institute where he campaigns for landscape-led placemaking. As a passionate advocate for the social and environmental importance of high-quality landscapes, he contributes actively to the government’s Design Advisory panel for housing, Design Council Cabe’s infrastructure and design panels and other regional panels. Noel is a regular columnist and visiting lecturer on landscape architecture. His design clients include The Royal Parks, Great Portland Estates, U+I, Peabody Trust and many local councils, delivering projects ranging from housing, education, parks and public realm. Noel has boundless energy contributing in the continued exploration of the right solutions to deliver the perfect places for all people to enjoy living and working.

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 more than 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 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. While 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.


Phil Jones

Phil is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in the planning and design of highway, with particular expertise in transport planning and street design for new developments. He specialises in achieving synergy between street and urban design, with the aim of creating places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims. He is the Managing Director of Phil Jones Associates, a 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), and was a lead writer on: Manual for Streets 2, for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, DfT and 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, the Northern Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group and Transport for London. He is a trainer for Urban Design London on street design and cycling. Actively involved in cycling initiatives at national level, Phil led on the Welsh Government’s Active Travel Design Guidelines and is a member of DfT’s Cycle Proofing Working Group.

Maria Kheirkhah

Maria is a multidisciplinary 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. Here she pursued her art education, specialising in sculpture and obtaining an MA at the University of Central England (1997). Maria travelled 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.

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), 2000-05, 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 (2006-12), 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), How Europe Shapes British Public Policy (2013), Applying leadership and management in Planning (2015) and Infrastructure delivery planning: an effective practice approach (2016).


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 more than 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.

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.

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.


Anna Rose

Anna is an architect and urban planner with more than 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 Enterprise 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.

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.

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. 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.


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 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.

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.

Ros Southern

Ros, BA (Hons), MPhil 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.


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.

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. At EH, Charles carried out the listed buildings resurvey, and undertook casework for listed buildings in London and historic areas 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, and Enabling Development Guidance. 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 and its guidance (2011), developed EH’s guidance on Neighbourhood Planning and Localism, developed its farm building’s assessment tool, and developed EH’s microgeneration advice. Charles now runs his own consultancy, is an SPAB Guardian, President of the Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings, and sits on the Haringey Quality Review Panel, West London Amenity, and Neighbourhood Planning Groups.

Helen Walker

Helen is an urban planner and built environment strategic policy analyst, focusing on the practical delivery of and skills required for sustainable communities and places. She previously worked for the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) 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. She h been a specialist advisor to two House of Commons Select Committees and produced the National Competency Framework for local authority planners for DCLG. 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).


Lorna Walker

Lorna is a sustainability consultant with more than 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 offshore 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.

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 multidisciplinary built environment think tank, The Edge; member of the steering panel of RIBA’s thinktank, 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 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.

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