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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.
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.
Annabel Keegan
BA (Hons) Arch, MA Urban Design, MCIHT
PJA
Annabel is a qualified transport planner and urban designer with a background in architecture. She has over 15 years of practical experience in multidisciplinary consultant teams, specialising in the delivery of design-led projects in both the public and private sectors. She has been involved in the promotion of many mixed-use urban design and masterplanning projects, and has developed knowledge and understanding of design, planning application and design review processes. Annabel has a keen interest in improving the quality of streets and public spaces and has been involved in a range of projects developing innovative street and public realm designs.
Edgar Kiviet
MSc, RIBA, ULI
Arup
Edgar is trained as an architect at Delft University Netherlands, brings 25 years of senior international Master planning and urban design experience, and is currently leading the Cardiff and Bristol based placemaking, urban design and landscape team. He is expert in sustainable urban regeneration and transformation, including a wide range of projects, such as Stafford Brooks Wildlife Trust GBI, Rotterdam Maashaven Park, Bristol City Centre Masterplan, Yate Town Improvement masterplan and Belgrade Waterfront. He brings a solid track record of design, stakeholder engagement and delivery of sustainable mixed-use urban regenerations and transformations, including one of the first BREEAM communities Pilot projects. Edgar is member of Urban Land Institute Circularity council and volunteers on secondary schools across the UK for Urban Plan UK, led by ULI.
Martin Knight
BA (Hons) MA CMLI
Studio Knight Stokoe
Martin is a chartered landscape architect, urbanist, and co-founding Director of Studio Knight Stokoe. He is passionate about working collaboratively to create regenerative, inspirational, and beautiful places that delight, and consider the needs of people, nature, and the environment. Over his career, he has developed a diverse portfolio across a variety of project scales and sectors. He is a mentor on the Landscape Institute’s Pathway to Chartership and an Expert Associate for the Design Council.
Cora Kwiatkowski
Dipl.-Ing. Arch RIBA
Chair
Stride Treglown
Cora is a chartered architect with over 20 years’ international experience and currently a Divisional Director/Sector Lead for Higher Education at Stride Treglown, as well as a RIBA Client Adviser with a special focus on strategic advice, briefing and user experience. Cora is experienced in working with the public and private sector to deliver award-winning projects. Cora has demonstrated encouraging design excellence as thought-leader through co-chairing the Design Review Panel at Design West and the Design Commission for Wales (DCfW). She further supports this aim as Board Trustee for Design West, Commissioner for DCfW, Design Council Associate and a member of the University Design Forum.
Richard Latcham
BEng (Hons) Dip UD CEng MICE MIHT
Latcham
Richard is an engineer and urban designer with 26 years’ experience working in the public and private sector on mobility, regeneration and land development projects. His skills and experience cover a variety of types of projects from planned urban extensions to the redevelopment of station development areas. His work is across a wide diversity of scales from single site redevelopments to city and regional development frameworks. His practice covers abstract and conceptual visions through to detailed scheme design, with specialist transport planning expertise and an ability for multi-agency and partnership working.
Michèle Lavelle
Dip LA CMLI MA T&CP Dip UD
4D Landscape Design
Proactive and with a realistic, positive approach to Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, Michèle’s expertise encompasses all aspects of these fields. She advises on the BUDF and Creating Excellence panels and is a founding member of Bristol Council’s Tree Forum and TDAG. Michèle advises and acts on behalf of Local Authorities and developers as an expert witness at planning appeals. Michèle lectures at UoG and UWE and is a Council Member of the Landscape Institute.
