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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.
Eve Murzyn
MArch, BSc (Hons), PGC, ARB, RIBA
HTA Design LLP
Eve leads the Bristol office of HTA Design an architectural practice with a focus on housing and has been with HTA since 2013. She has experience in urban design, masterplanning, architectural design, estate regeneration, community consultation and has worked in architectural practice for 18 years. Prior to joining HTA Eve worked for Farrells in Hong Kong working on mixed use projects across Asia, before that she worked for Powell Dobson Architects in the UK on a variety of residential, mixed-use and leisure projects. Eve has also volunteered for Architecture for Humanity whilst located in Cape Town, South Africa and for an architectural practice in Auckland, New Zealand. She has been involved in international development projects in developing countries working with non-profit organisations and aid agencies.
Shabnam Noor
RIBA, RIAS, ARB
Stories by Shabnam Noor Architects
Shabnam is an architect with robust expertise across architecture, sustainability, business case development and construction management. She set up her practice in 2015 after working with award winning firms on diverse projects, including the mixed-use Quadrant 3 in Piccadilly Circus for The Crown Estate, and the housing and public realm for Battersea Powerstation. Shabnam is passionate about her obligation as an architect to civic engagement and to improve the quality of our built environment. She has a special interest in designing for social inclusion and integration, encouraging urban rewilding and biodiversity, and designing dynamic and adaptable spaces that serve the community.
Frazer Osment
BA(Hons), MPhil, CMLI
Chair
LDA Design
Frazer is Chair of LDA. He has broad understanding of the forces driving change in urban and rural environments and specialises in helping places and organisations adapt. As an experienced masterplanner and urban designer he translates strategy into clear and implementable proposals, particularly through design coding. Frazer has advised on major new settlements and urban centres across the UK. He initiated Liveable Exeter which aims to direct transformational housing delivery to lever investment into streets, spaces and infrastructure. Frazer recently led research for RTPI on spatial solutions to decarbonise transport and worked with RTPI and RSPB to prepare model design codes for net zero and nature recovery.
Andrew Paley
BSc, MSc, DipURS, MRTPi
Bean Designed
Andrew is a Director at Bean Designed, and formerly Managing Director at JRPA in Yorkshire. He is a master planner, urban designer and town planner, with over 25 years of experience in delivering housing developments across the UK. Andrew has particular expertise in taking residential sites through from inception to detailed design for developers and housing associations. He has been responsible for the design and delivery of award winning designs, and is passionate about improving the quality of residential environments.
Adam Parsons
BA(Hons) DipArch MA RIBA ARB
APG Architecture
Adam Parsons is an architect driven by a belief that the built and natural environments should enrich one another. His work explores how thoughtful design can deliver lasting social and environmental value while supporting commercial viability. With a strong focus on triple bottom line sustainability, Adam considers how projects can balances economic success with community wellbeing and ecological stewardship, creating architecture that performs beautifully and responsibly for people and place.
Paul Britton
BSc (Hons), DipTP, MRTPI
Local Government Association
Paul is a qualified town planner with over 20 years’ commercial experience delivering high quality developments throughout the UK. He has worked within multi-functional teams on site acquisitions; undertaken detailed masterplanning / planning applications; and project managed the direct delivery of strategic schemes through joint ventures.
Mark Pearson
RIBA Part I, II, III, ARB, RPUD
Exeter City Council
Immediately, Mark combined teaching alongside practice - continuing as a Visiting Teaching Fellow, University of Bath. Following a decade as fulltime senior lecturer at Plymouth School of Architecture and the founding of a private practice, he became the second Director of the Architecture Centre, Bristol before appointments for CABE and Creating Excellence. Recently, as the Executive Director of Design Action, Devon and Cornwall whilst pursuing further built projects, his current post commenced in September 2022.
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.
