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Will Day
CMLI BA Fine Art (Hons)
Churchman Thornhill Finch
Will is an Associate at Churchman Thornhill Finch having joined the Bristol Studio in 2017 and has two decades of experience as a landscape architect. With a first degree in Fine Art Sculpture he is interested in the boundaries between landscape, art and architecture and believes that good landscape design should be socially inclusive, environmentally sensitive, technically hardworking and imbued with a sense of wonder. A former Design Council Expert, he believes in pushing designs to go beyond the expected norms and in utilizing natural systems to help meet challenges of today’s world and work within planetary boundaries. He has worked on public realm, residential, healthcare and education projects from inception to completion on site and has detailed technical knowledge and extensive on-site experience both in the UK and abroad including the landscape infrastructure package at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. A keen runner and cyclist, Will believes that walking and wheeling are the best ways to understand a new city and landscape.
Mark Day
MEng (Hons) MTPS CTPP
Arup
Mark has 19 years of experience in transport planning, working across the private and public sector. He now manages Arup’s transport planning team in Bristol and is Arup’s active travel lead for the West. He has worked on a variety of development projects and masterplans across the south of England, and is passionate about the integration of active and sustainable transport, and high quality street design, into communities to create liveable neighbourhoods.
Rob Delius
BA Hons Dip Arch MA RIBA
Stride Treglown
Rob is an architect and is Head of Sustainability at Stride Treglown. He is passionate about climate-sensitive regenerative design, biodiversity and creating healthy and distinctive places. His key specialisms are masterplanning, mixed-use and residential design. He has been sustainability advisor to the RIBA Southwest awards, is an external Examiner at UWE and has been the winner of several RIBA design competitions.
Patrick Devlin
MSc AAS, Dip Arch, RIBA, ARB
Chair
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Patrick Devlin leads one of PTE’s five architectural workshops, focusing on Later Living, retrofit and co-design projects, along with new build residential and masterplanning. Patrick has designed and delivered award-winning projects, from large-scale masterplans to infill sites and refurbishments. His research-led approach to specialist housing has gained international recognition for its pioneering designs. In 2009 Patrick coordinated the influential Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI). He teaches at Cardiff and Newcastle Universities.
Caterina di Garbo
BA(Hons) DipLA
Portus + Whitton Landscape Architects
Caterina is a skilled landscape architect with almost a decade of experience; currently specialising in ecological, regenerative, and permaculture design. She's focused on honing design skills to bring effective and creative solutions to our time of rapid change and in the context of the wider biodiversity and climate crisis. Caterina's work has been primarily based in rural areas, often highly designated and publicly significant sites, which have expanded her professional capacity through unique challenges and learning opportunities.
Elke Dittrich
RIBA chartered architect
DHV Architects
Elke studied architecture at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and the Technical University, Vienna, before moving to the UK in 1999. She qualified as a UK architect at the Architectural Association in 2001. Elke co-founded DHV Architects in 2005 and has been leading the practice since. DHV Architects specialises in heritage and residential projects. Elke is leading several National Trust Projects such as the new visitor centre at Tyntesfield. She likes to design one off bespoke houses.
Marc Dix
Ba Hons Dip LA CMLI
LT Studio Ltd
Marc is a Principal Landscape Architect with 20 years’ experience of designing landscape projects for public realm, residential and mixed use markets. He has experience of high profile schemes in the UK and Asia and recently led on masterplans for Lancaster University Management School, Watchet East Quay Harbour Regeneration Project and the regeneration of Shrewsbury Flax Mill Visitor Centre – the oldest iron-framed building in the world. Marc is a teaching fellow in the University of Bath Architecture Department and at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. An experienced assessor, he is a panel member of the Bristol Urban Design Review and the South West Design Panel. He is a Built Environment Expert (BEE) for Design Council CABE and has been a chartered member of the Landscape Institute for more than 18 years. An influential advocate for external space design and passionate about design quality, Marc is a frequent invited speaker at events and seminars.
Estelle Doughty
RIBA, ARB
architectureAnd
Estelle is a practicing architect based in Cornwall and has been a member of the CDRP since 2012. In Cornwall she was involved in the inception and development of the St Ives Neighbourhood Plan. Estelle has broad experience of commercial and residential projects from practice in London. Where she taught undergraduate architecture and spatial arts at London Metropolitan University before relocating with her own practice, architectureAnd, to Cornwall. Estelle has acted as a Consultant architect to other practices including Barnet Council, developing public facing and residential projects as part of larger regeneration plans.
Nathan Drover
CEng, MSc
Gloucestershire County Council
A Chartered engineer with 30 years’ experience in transport planning and delivery of infrastructure for new developments. Nathan is passionate about urban design, promoting walkable neighbourhood, good cycling infrastructure and approaches to parking that support those objectives. Nathan has a strong interest in spatial planning and urban design approaches that contribute towards tackling climate change; his recent work includes the carbon modelling of spatial options for strategic housing growth and decarbonising road construction specifications.
