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Robert Harrold
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE MBA
Statik Consult
Robert began his career as a structural engineer designing projects as diverse as Woolwich Arsenal, St Petersburg Airport and Maggie’s Leeds before his interest in sustainable homes took him to HAB Housing, where he was design manager for the Neave Brown shortlisted Lovedon Fields. Having recently completed The Carriage Works, Bristol, he is now an independent consultant specialising in the regeneration of complex sites and is passionate about simple, yet creative technical solutions that underpin the creation of fantastic places to live and sustainable communities.
Patricia Hawes
BASc, L.Arc, PGCE
Mei Loci Landscape Architects / Eden Project
Patricia is a founding director of Mei Loci Landscape Architects. Her expertise lies in the design of public realm, parks and gardens, and heritage settings with award-winning projects completed across the UK, including Lesnes Abbey Woods in London; Penzance Promenade, Cornwall, and numerous town centre regeneration projects across Cornwall. Her work integrates ecology, archaeology, and stakeholder engagement to create meaningful landscapes, focusing on education, well-being, and community involvement. Patricia is also an associate lecturer in garden and landscape design at the Eden Project.
Andy Hayles
BA (Hons), IoTC (Institute of Theatre Consultants), Fellow of LIPA
Charcoalblue LLP
In 1995 Andy moved from the world of theatrical production; to advising on the design of buildings for the performing arts. He co-founded specialist design company Charcoalblue in London 2004 and is the Managing Partner across its international studios: London, Bristol, New York, Chicago and Melbourne. Andy has contributed to the design and delivery of buildings for St Anns Warehouse in NYC, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sydney Theater Company, the RSC, the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House.
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.
Niamh Hession
BA (hons), PG Dip
Turley
Design Director for Turley, based in their Bristol Office, Niamh has more than twenty years of experience working within the built environment. She has had experience working on large scale urban development, town and city centre regeneration, as well as a breadth of mixed use, industrial and energy sites. Niamh has also provided design evidence to support to planning appeals and CPO tribunals.
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.
Birgit Hontzsch
Dipl-Ing
Cornwall Council
Birgit is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI) with over 20 years’ experience. She is acting Chair of the Landscape Institute South West Branch and a committee member of the Constructing Excellence Cornwall Hub. After many years in the private sector, she now works in the public sector, supporting delivery of Garden Villages. Her specialisms include Green and Blue Infrastructure, Biodiversity and Climate Change Resilience. She is a member of the Soils Taskforce.
James Howard
BSc (Hons), MRICS
Studio HIVE
James is Development Director at Studio HIVE, an innovative Bristol-based property developer. He previously worked as Associate Director of Urban Splash and at Gleeds, JLL, and Chesterton. A qualified Building Surveyor, James branched into Development and Project Management of mixed-use heritage and led projects including Lakeshore, Bristol and Royal William Yard, Plymouth. James has been involved with the redevelopment of Deepcut Barracks and Filton and regeneration projects in Bristol & Weston-super-Mare. James has served on the Torbay Design Review Panel for 10 years.
Lisa Jackson
MA Urban Design, BSc Town Planning, MRTPI
Jackson Planning Ltd
Lisa’s role is to navigate the evermore complex planning system to gain planning permission for clients. Her key driver is to raise her client’s design and sustainability ambitions and demonstrate that it leads to a smoother planning process; appropriate contextual design is key to that ambition. Her own lived experience of designing, procuring, building, and occupying a PassivHaus has taught her why we must all design better at the planning stage. Lisa represents the Royal Town Planning Institute on the judging panel of the annual National Housing Design Awards.
