Panel

  • Simon Carne

    Simon Carne

    Dip Arch RIBA MRTPI

    Simon Carne Architect and Urban Design

    Simon is an architect, planner and urban designer. Architectural work includes residential, university and arts projects. Planning and urban design includes public realm street, parks and open spaces, as well as large scale master planning. Simon sits on, and occasionally chairs, design review and quality panels across the UK, reviewing projects of varied scales and typologies in cities, towns, villages and rural areas.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Colin Cobb

    Colin Cobb

    BA(Hons) DipArch ARB

    FCB Studios

    Colin is an associate at FCB Studios, where he has worked since 2007. He specialises in education and performing arts buildings, and has completed a number of schools and university buildings. These include the Plymouth School of Creative Arts and the Birmingham Conservatoire, which features a 480 seat orchestral concert hall, multiple smaller venues and a suite of recording studios. He also sits on the Bristol Urban Design Forum review panel.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Frances Crow

    Frances Crow

    BA(Hons), DipArch(UCL), RIBA, ARB

    Crow Architecture

    Frances Crow is a chartered architect and Director of Crow Architecture. The practice specialises in retrofit, conservation and regenerative development in a rural context. Her experience in practice, teaching, research and engaged-arts projects, combines to define her approach to development. She champions projects that consider demolition as a last resort, use a ‘fabric first’ approach, privilege bio-based materials and use principles of the circular economy to reduce the embodied and in use carbon.

    Climate, Heritage, Housing, People & Place

  • Rob Delius

    Rob Delius

    BA Hons Dip Arch MA RIBA

    Stride Treglown

    Rob is an architect and is Head of Sustainability at Stride Treglown. He is passionate about climate-sensitive regenerative design, biodiversity and creating healthy and distinctive places. His key specialisms are masterplanning, mixed-use and residential design. He has been sustainability advisor to the RIBA Southwest awards, is an external Examiner at UWE and has been the winner of several RIBA design competitions.

    Climate, Density, Health, Housing, People & Place

  • Patrick Devlin

    Patrick Devlin

    MSc AAS, Dip Arch, RIBA, ARB

    Chair

    Pollard Thomas Edwards

    Patrick Devlin leads one of PTE’s five architectural workshops, focusing on Later Living, retrofit and co-design projects, along with new build residential and masterplanning. Patrick has designed and delivered award-winning projects, from large-scale masterplans to infill sites and refurbishments. His research-led approach to specialist housing has gained international recognition for its pioneering designs. In 2009 Patrick coordinated the influential Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI). He teaches at Cardiff and Newcastle Universities.

    Health, Heritage, Housing

  • Elke Dittrich

    Elke Dittrich

    RIBA chartered architect

    DHV Architects

    Elke studied architecture at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and the Technical University, Vienna, before moving to the UK in 1999. She qualified as a UK architect at the Architectural Association in 2001. Elke co-founded DHV Architects in 2005 and has been leading the practice since. DHV Architects specialises in heritage and residential projects. Elke is leading several National Trust Projects such as the new visitor centre at Tyntesfield. She likes to design one off bespoke houses.

    Heritage, Housing, Strategic Development

  • Estelle Doughty

    Estelle Doughty

    RIBA, ARB

    architectureAnd

    Estelle is a practicing architect based in Cornwall and has been a member of the CDRP since 2012. In Cornwall she was involved in the inception and development of the St Ives Neighbourhood Plan. Estelle has broad experience of commercial and residential projects from practice in London. Where she taught undergraduate architecture and spatial arts at London Metropolitan University before relocating with her own practice, architectureAnd, to Cornwall. Estelle has acted as a Consultant architect to other practices including Barnet Council, developing public facing and residential projects as part of larger regeneration plans.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Sophie Duke

    Sophie Duke

    MA UP, PGDip UD

    Dorset Council

    Sophie is a highly experienced and knowledgeable Urban Designer with over 15 years’ experience of working in the public sector at a senior level. With strong expertise in the development of new communities and housing regeneration, she is particularly interested in how well designed places impact people's physical and mental wellbeing. Currently the Senior Urban Design Officer at Dorset Council, her work includes collaborating on the production of master plans, design guides and design policies as well as providing in depth analysis and review of complex, large scale and often sensitive development proposals.

    Density, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Neil Emery

    Neil Emery

    BA Hons Dip TP MAUD MRTPI

    Clifton Emery design

    Neil is a master planner, urban designer and town planner with over 30 years of experience promoting design excellence in the built environment. Neil has particular expertise in visioning, planning and strategic design, mixed-use housing and community regeneration. He is one of the founders and owners of Clifton Emery design – a multi-disciplinary design practice bringing together architecture, urban design, landscape design and graphic design in a collaborative design environment.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development