Panel

  • Claire Miller

    Claire Miller

    PAS 2035 L5 Dip, PGCert, MArch, Architecture (BA Hons), Furniture & Interior Design (BA Hons)

    Askew Cavanna Architects

    Claire is a highly creative Chartered Architect and Retrofit Coordinator/Designer with 15 years industry experience. She is currently an Associate at Askew Cavanna Architects. Her passion is working with existing buildings to create energy efficient, beautiful, inclusive places that bring social, environmental and economic value through design. She has worked on a number of award winning projects including the Soil Association HQ and Docklands Youth & Community Centre, both in Bristol. Claire is also a Board of Trustees for the Centre for Sustainable Energy, a charity supporting people and organisations to tackle the climate emergency and end cold homes.

    Climate, Heritage, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Caitlin Mullard

    Caitlin Mullard

    BSc (Hons) MArch ARB RIBA CA

    Purcell

    Caitlin is an accredited Conservation Architect who specialises in working in historically significant settings on the repair and creative reuse of listed buildings. She has primarily worked on cultural projects for public sector clients with complex funding arrangements. Caitlin combines working in practice with teaching at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

    Heritage

  • Cleo Newcombe-Jones

    Cleo Newcombe-Jones

    BA, MSc, MRTPI

    Bath and NE Somerset Council

    Cleo is a town planner and urban designer specialising in urban regeneration and community led and co-designed projects. She has completed numerous Masterplans, development briefs and delivered a number of major schemes including public realm, meanwhile use, green infrastructure, conservation/redevelopment and development projects for both brownfield and greenfield sites. Cleo’s work has won awards for large scale community engagement and excellence in planning and partnership working. Cleo has a passion for design and has undertaken research into the regeneration in post industrial cities in Canada, USA and Eastern Europe.

    Heritage, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Helen Newman

    Helen Newman

    BA (Hons) Dip. Arch (Cambs) RIBA (CA)

    Ferguson Mann Architects

    Helen is a RIBA award-winning architect and chartered conservation architect. Her extensive experience over the last 25 years designing and delivering projects spans many sectors from education, leisure, residential and blue light as well as extensive experience in the adaption, repair and restoration of listed buildings adopting sustainable construction strategies.

    Heritage

  • Isabella Percy

    Isabella Percy

    BSc (Hons) MArch PG Dip RIBA

    James Grayley Architects

    Isabella is an architect with a background in social infrastructure, large-scale masterplans and strategic housing projects. She is currently an associate at James Grayley Architects, an award-winning practice working in sensitive and historic sites to deliver well-crafted housing, community and cultural projects. She is a member of the London Borough of Merton Design Review Panel and has taught design studio at the University of Bath.

    Heritage, Housing, People & Place

  • Clare Phillips

    Clare Phillips

    BSc DipArch RIBA AABC

    Purcell

    Clare is a conservation accredited, award-winning architect. She has over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering projects across multiple sectors. Her recent projects include large scale residential projects with adaptive re-use and new build elements in London and Bristol. She has also developed a specialist expertise in cultural heritage and museum projects with third sector clients. Clare has extensive experience implementing sustainable strategies in the adaption, repair and restoration of listed buildings.

    Heritage, Housing, Strategic Development

  • Nick Porter

    Nick Porter

    Meng CEng MICE

    Ramboll

    Nick has lived in Bristol for over 20 years and is a structural engineer for Ramboll. He has worked on projects far and wide, ranging from Hengrove Leisure Centre to an Iron Age roundhouse and a major new hospital for Stockholm. Nick enjoys contributing outside his discipline and believes that we reach better solutions when we’re willing to look outside our silos and understand the requirements of all team members.

    Heritage

  • Harriet Powell

    Harriet Powell

    BA (Hons), MArch, PGCert, ARB, RIBA

    Homes England

    Harriet has 10 years’ experience working in place-shaping. As an architect she predominantly worked for public sector clients, which inspired her move to the sector. While working for the Greater London Authority’s planning and regeneration team, Harriet worked with London Boroughs, community organisations, Mayor’s Design Advocates and teams across the GLA to deliver the Mayor’s Good Growth by Design programme. Harriet now leads a team at Homes England, delivering affordable homes in the Southwest region.

    Heritage, Housing, Inclusive Growth

  • Geoff Rich

    Geoff Rich

    BA(Hons) BArch(Hons) AABC RIBA-SCA

    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

    Geoff is a Managing Partner at FCBStudios and an AABC-accredited conservation architect with a leading role in creative re-use and regeneration projects. He is currently working on the world’s oldest surviving iron-framed buildings at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, the Bath Abbey Footprint project, and masterplans for the National Museums of Liverpool and Liverpool University. Geoff is a member of the Historic England Historic Places Panel, lectures at several universities, and previously led award-winning projects at Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle.

    Climate, Heritage, People & Place