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Rebecca Frost
BSc, MA, MRTPI
LDA Design
Rebecca is an Associate Urban Designer with a background in Town Planning. Designing places that are resilient to future needs, respond appropriately to their local context and are designed for wildlife and people are key drivers for Rebecca as a placemaker. She has over nine years of experience working on a range of projects from concept design, to outline planning applications and design coding as well as a range of engagement activities including co-design workshops.
Ed Gant
MA, CMLI
Lichen Studio
A chartered landscape architect and a founding director of Lichen Studio, Ed has worked on a range of projects, from public realm and urban regeneration to residential and commercial developments, across the UK and abroad. Passionate about environmental and social impact, Ed believes in creating landscapes that enhance nature and the health & well-being of the communities they serve. Ed has strong design narrative and communication skills, and collaborates with clients, design professionals, and end-users to deliver successful schemes, with a strong sense of place.
Lincoln Garland
PhD MSc BA(Hons) CEnv MCIEEM
Biodiversity by Design
Dr Lincoln Garland has been practicing as an ecologist and eco-masterplanner in environmental consultancy, academia, and for wildlife NGOs for over 30 years. He has a particular interest in eco-urbanism and has worked on many residential schemes. Lincoln recently had two chapters included in the Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology and regularly contributes articles to the Nature of Cities web based platform. Lincoln also regularly works overseas including in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle-East.
Bill Gething
MA (Cantab), Dipl Arch
University of the West of England, Bill Gething: Sustainability + Architecture
Bill Gething is a retired architect and sustainability consultant and is Professor Emeritus at the University of the West of England, where he retains an involvement in teaching and research. He has particular expertise in low energy design; housing; adapting buildings to the changing climate, particularly in relation to overheating; thermal retrofit of the existing stock, and ensuring buildings perform as well in practice as they should in theory.
Richard Goldthorpe
BSc Hons, DipLA, CMLI
The National Trust
Richard is a chartered landscape architect with 30 years experience working in the private, public and charity sectors. His wide ranging experience includes the design of streets and public realm, historic designed landscapes, urban regeneration, strategic green infrastructure and visitor experience design. He is Head of Placemaking and Design for the National Trust.
Simon Gould
BSc (Hons), DipArch (Cantab), ARB, RIBA
Mitchell Eley Gould
Simon is a Director Architect at Mitchell Eley Gould and has over 20 years of experience working on the design and delivery of sustainable places, education buildings, housing and homes. His focus is on quality, aspiring to deliver beauty, value and legibility. He is agile-minded, able to adapt designs to respond to complex environments, often working closely with multi-disciplinary stakeholder groups and local authorities. More recent projects include a new neighbourhood for 600 homes, school and commercial hub and an award winning housing scheme for 45 homes at the Tannery, Holt. Simon is a lecturer at The University of Bath and has been an external examiner at UWE Bristol on the MArch Architecture course.
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.
Emma Grayson
BSc (Hons), MCIHT
AECOM
Emma has 19 years of experience in transport planning, focussed on development planning. Her experience spans both the private and public sector and she has particular expertise of advising on the transport planning impacts of strategic development proposals across the south of England. Emma has worked at all stages of the planning process, from initial site feasibility through to the preparation and review of Transport Assessments and the negotiation of planning conditions and obligations.
Rob Gregory
MArch BA (Hons) RIBA ARB
Chair
The Universities of Bristol and Bath
Rob Gregory is an award-winning architect and academic, currently responsible for design quality across the University of Bristol’s £1bn portfolio of capital projects. Over two decades Rob has maintained a permanent post as Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath, spent ten years as Senior Editor on the Architectural Review, four years on the RIBA National Awards Group, five years running the Architecture Centre’s public programme, and held consultancy roles for the Architecture Foundation, Royal Academy and British Council.
