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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.
Sarah John
BA (Hons) Dip Arch, MA (Arch Cons), RIBA
GJR Conservation Ltd
Sarah has reported on listed buildings within the Devon and Cornwall area, researched much of Exeter’s Regency fabric, undertaken research on the listed buildings of Topsham and carried out faculty work for the Church of St Mary Aylesbeare. She is a registered RIBA Conservation Architect and works closely with local listed building officers, English Heritage and Church Faculties. The Practice concentrates on smaller projects, extensions, barn conversions and conservation area work but has also been involved in projects up to £9 million. Sarah’s knowledge of modern architecture is invaluable when adding modern insertions into listed fabric or a new dwelling in a conservation area.
Phil Jones
BSc (Hons) CEng FICE FICHT FIHE
Phil Jones Associates
Phil is an engineer with extensive experience in transport planning and street design, particularly in new developments. He aims to achieve synergy between street and urban design to create places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims. He is the Chairman of PJA, a 135-strong transport, engineering and placemaking consultancy. In recent years Phil has specialised in active travel and is a Non-Executive Director of Active Travel England, an Agency of the Department for Transport.
Anthony Jones
BSc Environmental Assessment
Glanville Group
Anthony is a transport planner with over 20 years experience in leading transport planning teams in providing highway and transportation planning advice for a wide variety of clients and development schemes in the residential, retail, education, leisure, industrial and office sectors. Anthony joined Glanville as a Technical Director in January 2023. Before that he was a Director at Pegasus Group primarily responsible for launching the new transport team offer in 2018.
Sarah Jones-Morris
BA (Hons), PGDipLA, MA UD, FLI
Landsmith Associates
Sarah is a multi-award winning landscape architect, urban designer and director of Bristol-based Landsmith Associates. Her passion is climate resilience, health and wildlife led projects, with experience ranging from rural to urban, small-scale courtyards to urban extensions, early feasibility studies to post-implementation reviews. She is a Design Council expert, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Building with Nature associate, contributes to the citizen-science project Hush City and is the co-director of the global Association of Collaborative Design CIC. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and facilitates workshops with Design West.
