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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.
Phil Parker
BSc(hons), C.Eng, MICE, MCIHT, HECoC, Churchill Fellow 2006
A Chartered Civil Engineer since 1983, Phil completed a 2006 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study street design in Western Europe. His essay ‘City Planning as if people mattered’ won the 2007 Ecologist Magazine Essay Prize. Phil has designed and delivered several Shared Space style schemes from 1988, and with two projects commended in the CIHT Awards in 2008 and 2016. Phil is qualified with Highways England to carry out Road Safety Audits.
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.
Louisa Philpott
BA MSc
Arup
Louisa has over 25 years experience in architecture and masterplanning, in the West, with a focus on sustainability and climate adaptation. She has worked across the public and private sectors on strategic sites, mixed use urban masterplanning and planning policy. She is a senior urban designer at Arup leading on national and international projects with themes of Reimagining Town Centres, Just Transition, carbon management and climate risk analysis.
Simon Power
BSc PGDip MSc PhD CEnv CGeol MRTPI MCIWEM
Mott MacDonald
Simon is an urban geographer, strategic town planner, infrastructure designer, regeneration consultant and consenting specialist with 30 years’ experience of leading interdisciplinary planning and sustainability teams. He is experienced in complex schemes involving transport-oriented infrastructure, also in early-stage policy, strategy and feasibility studies. In 2022 he completed a place-based PhD in Geography and Planning. Previously his career covered highways, rail, energy and water projects as well as urban regeneration. He supports Design Commission for Wales in panel reviews and workshops and is a Member of Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Simon’s recent work includes major regeneration frameworks: Bristol Temple Quarter, Frome Gateway and Bristol City Centre.
Max Rafferty-White
BA (hons)
Stantec
Max is an Associate Architectural Designer at Stantec with experience of working on the design of new communities across the UK, both as a consultant and as the design lead for a high-end regional developer. Max’s expertise lies in the overlap between Architecture and Urban Design, with a specialism in creating high quality housing schemes. Recent work includes producing Design Codes and subsequent detailed designs for Wichelstowe – a distinct new community just south of Swindon.
Jenni Reid
BSc, CEnv, CIEE
Burton Reid Associates
Jenni is Founder and Director of Burton Reid Associates, a multi-disciplinary consultancy who specialise in providing high quality green infrastructure and biodiversity net gain. Jenni has a simple philosophy - designing with nature in mind supports the long-term health and wellbeing of us all. The company works with clients who share this philosophy to deliver beautiful, sustainable developments. She is a Chartered Environmentalist and a full member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (CIEEM). Jenni is also an Approved Building with Nature Assessor.
Louis Rice
BA (Hons), Dip.Arch, RIBA Part 3, MA, FHEA, PhD
UWE
Dr Louis Rice is Head of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments. He is an architect, urban designer and senior lecturer specializing in healthy architecture and urban design. Louis studied Architecture at Sheffield University and then worked as an architect and urban designer for over a decade in London and Paris. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
