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Robert Harrold
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE MBA
Statik Consult
Robert began his career as a structural engineer designing projects as diverse as Woolwich Arsenal, St Petersburg Airport and Maggie’s Leeds before his interest in sustainable homes took him to HAB Housing, where he was design manager for the Neave Brown shortlisted Lovedon Fields. Having recently completed The Carriage Works, Bristol, he is now an independent consultant specialising in the regeneration of complex sites and is passionate about simple, yet creative technical solutions that underpin the creation of fantastic places to live and sustainable communities.
Patricia Hawes
BASc, L.Arc, PGCE
Mei Loci Landscape Architects / Eden Project
Patricia is a founding director of Mei Loci Landscape Architects. Her expertise lies in the design of public realm, parks and gardens, and heritage settings with award-winning projects completed across the UK, including Lesnes Abbey Woods in London; Penzance Promenade, Cornwall, and numerous town centre regeneration projects across Cornwall. Her work integrates ecology, archaeology, and stakeholder engagement to create meaningful landscapes, focusing on education, well-being, and community involvement. Patricia is also an associate lecturer in garden and landscape design at the Eden Project.
David Hawes
MA, PgDip
DHUD Ltd
David Hawes is an urban designer specialising in strategic masterplanning, placemaking and design governance, with extensive experience across both public and private sectors. He has led district-wide design guides and codes, SPDs, regeneration strategies and large-scale masterplans. His work focuses on community-led placemaking, social value and long-term stewardship. David was a winner of the RIBA Future Place programme and represented Mid Devon in the National Model Design Code piloting initiative for MHCLG.
Andy Hayles
BA (Hons), IoTC (Institute of Theatre Consultants), Fellow of LIPA
Charcoalblue LLP
In 1995 Andy moved from the world of theatrical production; to advising on the design of buildings for the performing arts. He co-founded specialist design company Charcoalblue in London 2004 and is the Managing Partner across its international studios: London, Bristol, New York, Chicago and Melbourne. Andy has contributed to the design and delivery of buildings for St Anns Warehouse in NYC, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sydney Theater Company, the RSC, the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House.
Fiona Heron
BSc (Hons), MSc, Dip LA, MA, CMLI, FRSA
Fiona Heron Design
Fiona is a landscape architect with over 25 years strategic and detailed experience in both public and private sectors including open spaces, squares, housing, sensitive sites and international garden design competitions. Her focus is on place-making and promoting quality external design. She has won urban design awards for both landscape and art. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she has written for the Landscape Journal, is a regular university tutor, a member of the CPD Landscape Committee, Cambridge Quality Panel and speaks at multi-professional training sessions and seminars.
Jo Hibbert
RIBA, ARB, AABC, SPAB Scholar
Levitate West Design and Architecture Studio Ltd.
Jo is Conservation Director of Levitate and has extensive experience in conserving, restoring, and renovating listed buildings. After graduating from Sheffield University in 2007, Jo worked with English Heritage as the ICOMOS Summer Scholar (New York) and worked for Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects upon completion of her diploma. In 2002 Jo was awarded a SPAB Lethaby Scholarship. Jo is church architect for significant churches throughout the southwest, sits on the Exeter DAC, and is studio tutor for the final year of Diploma at Bath University.
Simon Hickman
BSc (Hons) MSc, IHBC
Avalon Planning & Heritage
Simon is Heritage Director at Avalon Planning & Heritage’s Bristol office. He spent over ten years as Historic England's Principal Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas for the South West. Previously, Simon was a building inspector for English Heritage's London region, where he guided the restoration of some of the Nation's best-loved buildings, including Kings Cross and St Pancras Stations. He has a strong interest in contextual new design in a historic setting.
Nick James
BSc MArch
Futureground
Nick is a sustainability professional with 20+ years’ experience working in investment, development, design and construction organisations. He’s an expert in the development and regeneration of housing, mixed and merged-use schemes. Nick applies design thinking to the “software” of how buildings, places and supporting services are designed, delivered, governed, managed and curated. He has a passion for the repurposing existing buildings and is a qualified retrofit coordinator. He’s founding director of sustainable place strategists, Futureground.
Sarah Jenkinson
BA (Hons) MArch ARB
Bristol City Centre
Sarah is a specialist in residential and city centre regeneration, as well as in design guidance for homes and neighbourhoods. She is an urbanist, with a passion for people-focused placemaking. Combining her experience as an urban designer, architect, masterplanner and regeneration project manager, she puts people, clear communication and design quality at the heart of the design process and project outcomes. Sarah is experienced in strategic management of large-scale projects, taking account of commercial, political, planning, community and design requirements.
