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Stefan Kruczkowski
BA(Hons) DipTP (Dist) RPUD FHEA PhD
Urban Design Doctor Limited
Dr. Stefan Kruczkowski is an urban designer and co-author of Building for a Healthy Life - the government endorsed design tool for creating better residential developments. Stefan has extensive experience in improving the design quality of new towns, villages and a range of residential and commercial developments. Working for local planning authorities across England, Stefan is experienced in policy and brief writing, development management and post-completion quality auditing. Stefan also serves on the panel for Design:Midlands, supports Homes England with its land disposal programme and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Nottingham.
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.
Bianca Laura Latini
MEng, MCIBSE, WELL AP
Buro Happold
Bianca is an Associate Sustainability Engineer and Global Lead of Social Impact at Buro Happold. She works across building, masterplan, and city scales to integrate equity, health, and environmental sustainability into the built environment. Alongside project work, she collaborates with leading bodies including the UKGBC, WGBC, National Retrofit Hub, and BRE to shape best practice and influence policy.
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.
Justine Leach
BA (Hons) Dip LA MAUD
LDA Design
With 25 years professional practice Justine has considerable experience of masterplanning and landscape architecture in urban and rural environments at a wide range of scales. Justine is a Director at LDA Design and leads their Oxford studio where she provides strong design leadership on projects ranging from strategic development, regeneration, public space design, including streets and the public realm of new housing. Her expertise includes complex multi-disciplinary projects, coordination and design for visioning strategies and site promotion, design statements, planning applications and delivery.
Warren Lever
BSc Hons PG Dip UD MRICS IHBC
ShapethePlace
Warren is an Urban Designer and Heritage Professional with over 25 years' experience in master planning, urban design, heritage consultation and the design of public realm schemes. He has worked on urban regeneration proposals, heritage projects and wider placeshaping initiatives for local authorities. In private practice, he previously led the Placeshaping team at Balfour Beatty, working on a number of major urban design, regeneration and streetscape projects. Warren currently works on projects establishing the links between the design of the built environment and quality of life outcomes. He has advised on neighbourhood plans and has expertise in community engagement workshops, Building for Healthy Life and design coding.
Andrew Linfoot
BA MPhil PGDipUD FLI
Jacobs
Andrew is a landscape architect and urban designer with over 30 years’ experience of delivering complex projects in the UK and overseas. He is Jacobs Global Technology Lead for Landscape Architecture, involving strategy, innovation, and connectivity across technology and people. Andrew leads multi-disciplinary design teams on projects from feasibility stage to design, consenting to implementation. He is able to think across disciplines, understanding the inter-relationships and the need for a collaborative approach to develop successful solutions.
Tom Littlewood
Bsc (Hons) Hort. Dip LA CMLI
Ginkgo Projects Ltd
Tom is an experienced Cultural Producer working across the arts and built environment sectors. He has over twenty five years of experience of promoting design excellence and the rich narratives that cultural programming brings to place development. He is founder and Director of Ginkgo Projects Ltd. working throughout the UK, visioning, curating, and delivering cultural projects that integrate the work of artists and makers as a key element within environmental, architectural and regenerative schemes. Tom is co Director of Filament Works CIC which is focused on developing a more resilient, diverse and progressive cultural ecology in Torbay and the wider region.
