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Andrew Grant
RDI, CMLI, Hon. D.Litt, Hon FRIBA, FRSA
Grant Associates
Founder and Director of Grant Associates. He was awarded the title of RSA Royal Designer for Industry in recognition of his pioneering global work in landscape architecture. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. He is Chair of the Bathscape Landscape Partnership, a member of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board and co-founder of the pop up festival Forest of Imagination.
Mike Harris
BSc Geography, MA Town Country Planning
Homes England
Mike is a planner with over 15 years’ experience across strategic planning and placemaking including development delivery. He has experience of planning for nationally significant infrastructure, policy development, delivery and EIA coordination. Drawing on this experience, gained within both the public and private sector, Mike focuses on practical delivery whilst being a strong advocate for the creation of design-led, healthy places that work for everyone.
Matt Harrison
BA Hons DipArch MA RIBA
One50studio
Matt is passionate about the value and social necessity of architecture and place design. This is aligned with a commitment to progress neighbourhood scale transformation to achieve sustainable outcomes through integrated energy, transport, water, ecology and social infrastructure. Matt has been a Design West Design Review panel member for more than 10 years and is a teaching fellow at Bath University. He works as a consultant with White Design, where he was a Director and employee of 16 years leading on urban design, neighbourhood planning and architectural projects as well as research into Zero Carbon communities, Retrofit, Design for Future Climate and Post Occupancy Evaluation.
Robert Harrold
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE MBA
Statik Consult
Robert began his career as a structural engineer designing projects as diverse as Woolwich Arsenal, St Petersburg Airport and Maggie’s Leeds before his interest in sustainable homes took him to HAB Housing, where he was design manager for the Neave Brown shortlisted Lovedon Fields. Having recently completed The Carriage Works, Bristol, he is now an independent consultant specialising in the regeneration of complex sites and is passionate about simple, yet creative technical solutions that underpin the creation of fantastic places to live and sustainable communities.
James Howard
BSc (Hons), MRICS
Studio HIVE
James is Development Director at Studio HIVE, an innovative Bristol-based property developer. He previously worked as Associate Director of Urban Splash and at Gleeds, JLL, and Chesterton. A qualified Building Surveyor, James branched into Development and Project Management of mixed-use heritage and led projects including Lakeshore, Bristol and Royal William Yard, Plymouth. James has been involved with the redevelopment of Deepcut Barracks and Filton and regeneration projects in Bristol & Weston-super-Mare. James has served on the Torbay Design Review Panel for 10 years.
Lisa Jackson
MA Urban Design, BSc Town Planning, MRTPI
Jackson Planning Ltd
Lisa’s role is to navigate the evermore complex planning system to gain planning permission for clients. Her key driver is to raise her client’s design and sustainability ambitions and demonstrate that it leads to a smoother planning process; appropriate contextual design is key to that ambition. Her own lived experience of designing, procuring, building, and occupying a PassivHaus has taught her why we must all design better at the planning stage. Lisa represents the Royal Town Planning Institute on the judging panel of the annual National Housing Design Awards.
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.
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.
Simon Kale
BA (Hons) CMLI
Nicholas Pearson Associates
Simon is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 25 years’ experience in urban and rural projects including those within green and brownfield sites. Work has included site analysis, impact assessment and the design of integrated mitigation proposals. Landscape master-planning and design experience has included new residential, commercial and infrastructure developments from conceptual design to detailed proposals including the successful integration of scheme proposals into sensitive landscape contexts.
