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Jon Tricker
BEng (Hons), CIHT
PJA
Jonathan is a Director at Phil Jones Associates (PJA) and focuses on combining transport, engineering and place-making advice to a range of clients. He is highly regarded within the transport planning profession and brings over 25 years’ commercial experience, focusing on master planning, development planning and street design. He is a highly capable projects director, used to leading, project managing and working with large inter-disciplinary design teams, mainly in Southern England.
Maria Vierma
BSc (Hons) Agriculture Engineer, MA Urban Design
Marrons
Maria works with a range of public and private sector clients on a variety of urban design, regeneration and masterplanning projects. She has experience of working on high-calibre, creative and technically challenging commissions. Maria has worked on sites across the country. She has the ability to combine vision, delivery, and creative design-led approach. She has experience of working on urban extensions, town regeneration and mixed use developments. This includes managing large multidisciplinary teams and inputs from stakeholder engagement. Throughout her career, she has developed design and analysis skills to produce successful strategic development.
Andy Ward
BA (Hons) DipArch DipUD DipTP RIBA
NEW masterplanning Ltd
Andy is an architect, urban designer and town planner with over 30 years of experience working in both public and private sectors. From designing and implementing major city mixed use regeneration projects, creating visions for towns, strategies for urban extensions, garden villages and detailed housing layouts in sensitive locations, Andy believes in a collaborative process working closely with the wider community, the right professionals and builders to deliver high quality places fit for our future.
Michael Wells
RDI FRSA FCIEEM MIBiol MCIWEM PhD MA (Nat. Sci) C.Env C.Sci C.Biol CWEM
Biodiversity by Design Ltd
Mike is both a professional ecologist and an ecourbanist, with nearly 30 years of consultancy experience and 40 years in ecological science. He co-founded Biodiversity by Design Ltd in 2006 with the express aim of focusing on creative multifunctional ecology. Mike's key interests lie in exploring opportunities for biodiversity enhancement and ecological education in the creative gaps between Ecology and other disciplines including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil and Structural Engineering and Art. Mike has led the ecological design of several benchmark exemplars of ecourbanism including the Athletes' Village (now East Village) Stratford for the 2012 Olympic Games and the regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula. Mike has practiced globally in over 20 countries and published widely in relation to the ecological aspects of urban regeneration, masterplanning and design. He is an expert in innovative habitat creation including multifunctional wetlands and vegetated architecture.
Neil Williamson
BA(Hons), MA, Dip Mgt, FLI, PPLI, FCMI, AdCert EDCP
Neil Williamson Associates Ltd
Neil is a landscape architect and urban designer with more than 35 years’ experience. He is a Design Council Expert (Associate), a past President of the Landscape Institute and serves on a number of design review panels including that of the Design Commission for Wales. He has helped develop and promote design policy at local and national level and collaborated with Rob Cowan on Design and Access Statements Explained published in 2008.
Charles Wilson
MA DA[Manc] Dip Arch Riba MRTPI
Chair
Charles Wilson is an Architect & Town Planner who has practiced in both private & public sectors. He previously co-designed the listed bus station at BDP, was City Architect and Planning Director at Lancaster, past chair of the CABE / Historic England Urban Panel, and was the deputy chair of Places Matter, the North West Regional Design Review service. He is current chair of strategic project review for Design West.
Alexander Wright
BSc(Hons), Dip Arch, MDesS, FHEA, ARB, RIBA
Chair
University of Bath
Professor Alex Wright is Head of Architecture at the University of Bath. He is a graduate of the University of Bath, Cambridge University, and Harvard University, where he studied as a Harkness Fellow. He worked in private practice for 15 years before accepting a full-time academic position in 2005. Alex is an expert adviser to the Ministerial Advisory Group for the Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and is Chair of the Swindon Design Review Panel for Creating Excellence.
