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Jonathan Lloyd
BEng (hons), MCIHT
SLR Consulting Ltd
Jonathan has over twenty years’ experience providing highways and contemporary mobility and placemaking advice for clients across multiple sectors as well as overseas projects. Jonathan’s passion for schemes that deliver real social value, enable people to make positive mobility choices, meeting carbon reduction and health objectives. Jonathan is proud to have been involved with the RTPI, advising on pathways to Net Zero Transport, helping inform the Governments future zero carbon policies.
Martyn Lonsdale
BA (Hons), DipLA, CMLI, DipUD, RPUD
Lavigne Lonsdale
Martyn has 30 years experience of providing masterplanning, urban design and landscape architectural services on large scale, award-winning projects. He is the founding Director of Lavigne Lonsdale and oversees both the Truro and Bath studios.
Laura Menzies
BEng (Hons), CEng, MICE
Buro Happold
With a background in infrastructure design and construction, Laura has enjoyed a varied career across the technical design, coordination and construction of projects from the London 2012 stadium to two new cities in Kuwait. Her varied experience covers; flood risk, highways, drainage, utilities and earthworks. She has contributed to the delivery of a wide range of solutions to infrastructure challenges, and has developed an adaptable, collaborative approach to design development.
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.
Cleo Newcombe-Jones
BA, MSc, MRTPI
Bath and NE Somerset Council
Cleo is a town planner and urban designer specialising in urban regeneration and community led and co-designed projects. She has completed numerous Masterplans, development briefs and delivered a number of major schemes including public realm, meanwhile use, green infrastructure, conservation/redevelopment and development projects for both brownfield and greenfield sites. Cleo’s work has won awards for large scale community engagement and excellence in planning and partnership working. Cleo has a passion for design and has undertaken research into the regeneration in post industrial cities in Canada, USA and Eastern Europe.
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.
David Orr
DipLA CMLI MCIHT
David Orr Consulting
David is an urban designer and landscape architect designing complex urban and rural development projects of all kinds, from small residential developments to masterplans for urban extensions and new communities. His focus is on designing the movement and landscape narrative to create good places. This comes from experience in designing projects including Trafalgar Square, many high street improvements and a range of mixed use masterplans. David has worked extensively on regenerating historic towns and has prepared a number of public realm design guides and strategies. His projects include movement and urban design frameworks for urban districts, market towns, mining and seaside communities across the UK. He is a Design Council Expert and High Streets Task Force Expert.
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.
