Panel

  • Nick James

    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.

    Climate, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Dimitrije Jankovic

    Dimitrije Jankovic

    BSc, MA LA (Hons), AIAPP, CMLI

    BDP

    As a Chartered Landscape Architect, Dimitrije’s strong interests lays in the concept design and creative side of the project that evokes the character of the site, whilst putting a great attention to the detail and the technical side of design work. He is eager to ensure projects work with a human scale, encouraging users to dwell in the external spaces – combining taste and functionality to create distinctive landscapes.

    Climate, Landscape, Water

  • Kate	Jeffreys

    Kate Jeffreys

    CEnv MCIEEM

    Geckoella

    Kate is a Director of Geckoella and an ecologist with over 20 years' experience within both private and public sector. Her fieldwork skills, specialising in bats and botany, provide the grounding for her knowledge of development control and planning across terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The ecology sector is very dynamic at present, and Kate is looking forward to the technical and practical challenges of making policies such as Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery deliver for wildlife and communities, both at the individual site and at the landscape scale.

    Climate, Ecology, Landscape

  • Sarah John

    Sarah John

    BA (Hons) Dip Arch, MA (Arch Cons), RIBA

    GJR Conservation Ltd

    Sarah has reported on listed buildings within the Devon and Cornwall area, researched much of Exeter’s Regency fabric, undertaken research on the listed buildings of Topsham and carried out faculty work for the Church of St Mary Aylesbeare. She is a registered RIBA Conservation Architect and works closely with local listed building officers, English Heritage and Church Faculties. The Practice concentrates on smaller projects, extensions, barn conversions and conservation area work but has also been involved in projects up to £9 million. Sarah’s knowledge of modern architecture is invaluable when adding modern insertions into listed fabric or a new dwelling in a conservation area.

    Heritage, Housing, People & Place

  • Innes Johnston

    Innes Johnston

    BA, MEng, CEng, MCIBSE, MIOA

    Max Fordham LLP

    Graduating in engineering from Cambridge, Innes joined Max Fordham’s London office to design systems at the Royal Festival Hall Auditorium and develop the acoustics team. He founded their Bristol office in 2013, overseeing local and listed cultural projects as well as new residential and educational developments. He combines detailed knowledge of delivering sustainable new and refurbished buildings with an overview of the energy and sustainability planning context of construction projects and an understanding of the way physics and comfort relate to building fabric and architecture.

    Climate, Health, Heritage

  • Phil Jones

    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.

    People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Matt Jones

    Matt Jones

    BSc MSc CEnv MCIEEM

    EAD Ecology

    Matt is a Director of EAD Ecology and has over 25 years' experience as an ecological consultant. He is passionate about ecological design and enjoys the challenges and opportunities of integrating ecological understanding, policy and legislation with the aspirations, demands and creativity of development. Matt regularly presents on ecological matters such as Biodiversity Net Gain and acts as an Expert Witness. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and Full Member of CIEEM.

    Climate, Ecology

  • Anthony Jones

    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.

    Highways & Transport, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Sarah Jones-Morris

    Sarah Jones-Morris

    BA (Hons), PGDipLA, MA UD, FLI

    Landsmith Associates

    Sarah is a multi-award winning landscape architect, urban designer and director of Bristol-based Landsmith Associates. Her passion is climate resilience, health and wildlife led projects, with experience ranging from rural to urban, small-scale courtyards to urban extensions, early feasibility studies to post-implementation reviews. She is a Design Council expert, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Building with Nature associate, contributes to the citizen-science project Hush City and is the co-director of the global Association of Collaborative Design CIC. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and facilitates workshops with Design West.

    Landscape, People & Place