Panel

  • Jon Tricker

    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.

    People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Nick Vaughan

    Nick Vaughan

    BA(Hons) DipArch RIBA

    Alec French Architects

    Nick has a special interest in co-coordinating complex projects on challenging sites, whether they are multi-use or for diverse client bodies. Leading projects such as London's King’s Cross Station, Birmingham's New Street Station and Bristol's Wapping Wharf has driven his passion for re-working and creating healthy, enriching and sustainable communities for people to live, work and travel through. From building projects in cities he understands that successful urban design depends on strong collaboration.

    Density, Housing, People & Place

  • Maria Vierma

    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.

    Density, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • John Waldron

    John Waldron

    DARCH, RIBA Parts 1-3

    spaces4learning

    John’s career as an architect has primarily been devoted to housing and education projects, with work in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. As a director of a larger architectural practice, his experience also covers a wider variety of building types. John has been a member of the Bristol Urban Design Forum since its inception, including five years as a co-chair of the design panel, becoming increasingly involved with wider urban design and landscape issues.

    Density, Housing, People & Place

  • Emily Walsh

    Emily Walsh

    BSc MEng CEng DUd

    Gloucestershire County Council

    Emily is a Transport Planner at Gloucestershire County Council where she works at all scales from the development of policy and strategy through to supporting the design of transport infrastructure and streets to enhance places. Before joining Gloucestershire, she worked in both the private sector and local government as an Engineer, Transport Planner and Urban Designer working at local and regional scales on transport strategy development, master-planning, transport capital programme development and delivery. Emily is passionate about the positive role well designed transport infrastructure and streets can play in shaping liveable economically successful places. She applies a ‘place’ and ‘people’ led approach to transport planning and design; frequently working collaboratively with stakeholders and local communities to do this. She has extensive experience of design review and support including as a Panel Chair.

    Highways & Transport, People & Place

  • Andy Ward

    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.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • David Watkins

    David Watkins

    MEng (Hons), CEng, MCIHT, FCIHT

    Arup

    David is a Chartered Engineer and an Associate Director at Arup where he leads the west transport planning business. Chair of the CIHT in the south-west, David has 19 years‘ experience across a breadth of transport planning disciplines including active travel, street design, parking, business case and development of new public transport services and interchange facilities. He enjoys working with public and private sector clients to integrate sustainable transport into projects to make it the mode of choice.

    Highways & Transport, People & Place

  • James Webb

    James Webb

    BSc(hons) MSc (hist con) Pg Dip UD IHBC

    Forum Heritage Services

    James Webb is a planning consultant with over 25 years’ experience and Director of Forum Heritage Services, a consultancy specialising in the historic environment. He worked as a principal conservation officer for several local authorities in the UK, including the City of Westminster, Hampshire, and Dorset Councils. James has sat on several design panels including the Cornwall Design Review Panel and the Bournemouth Design Panel. He was a Trustee of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and remains as the Dorset representative for the South-West region.

    Heritage

  • Michael Wells

    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.

    Housing, Landscape, Strategic Development