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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.
Helen Newman
BA (Hons) Dip. Arch (Cambs) RIBA (CA)
Ferguson Mann Architects
Helen is a RIBA award-winning architect and chartered conservation architect. Her extensive experience over the last 25 years designing and delivering projects spans many sectors from education, leisure, residential and blue light as well as extensive experience in the adaption, repair and restoration of listed buildings adopting sustainable construction strategies.
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.
Andrew Paley
BSc, MSc, DipURS, MRTPi
Bean Designed
Andrew is a Director at Bean Designed, and formerly Managing Director at JRPA in Yorkshire. He is a master planner, urban designer and town planner, with over 25 years of experience in delivering housing developments across the UK. Andrew has particular expertise in taking residential sites through from inception to detailed design for developers and housing associations. He has been responsible for the design and delivery of award winning designs, and is passionate about improving the quality of residential environments.
Phil Parker
BSc(hons), C.Eng, MICE, MCIHT, HECoC, Churchill Fellow 2006
A Chartered Civil Engineer since 1983, Phil completed a 2006 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study street design in Western Europe. His essay ‘City Planning as if people mattered’ won the 2007 Ecologist Magazine Essay Prize. Phil has designed and delivered several Shared Space style schemes from 1988, and with two projects commended in the CIHT Awards in 2008 and 2016. Phil is qualified with Highways England to carry out Road Safety Audits.
Adam Parsons
BA(Hons) DipArch MA RIBA ARB
APG Architecture
Adam Parsons is an architect driven by a belief that the built and natural environments should enrich one another. His work explores how thoughtful design can deliver lasting social and environmental value while supporting commercial viability. With a strong focus on triple bottom line sustainability, Adam considers how projects can balances economic success with community wellbeing and ecological stewardship, creating architecture that performs beautifully and responsibly for people and place.
Paul Britton
BSc (Hons), DipTP, MRTPI
Local Government Association
Paul is a qualified town planner with over 20 years’ commercial experience delivering high quality developments throughout the UK. He has worked within multi-functional teams on site acquisitions; undertaken detailed masterplanning / planning applications; and project managed the direct delivery of strategic schemes through joint ventures.
