Panel

  • Anja Grossmann

    Anja Grossmann

    Dipl Ing. LEED AP BD+C RIBA

    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

    Anja is an architect and partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. With her expertise in city-centre mixed use projects and urban masterplanning, she has led a wide range of award-winning projects in the UK and abroad, from global bank headquarters to pioneering environmental dwellings. She has been invited to lecture on low carbon housing and published a number of articles on sustainability. Anja is passionate about Bristol’s built environment, vibrancy, and rich mix of culture and heritage.

    Density, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Richard Guise

    Richard Guise

    Dip Arch (hons), PG Dip TP

    Context 4D

    Richard is a chartered architect and town planner with over forty years’ experience. He is principal of his Bristol-based urban design consultancy, Context4D, and specialises in design guidance and negotiation, sustainability, urban design frameworks and characterisation. Formerly course leader of the MA Urban Design programme at UWE, Richard is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He co-authored ‘Shaping Neigbourhoods’ and ‘Characterising Neighbourhoods’.

    Heritage, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Shruthi Guruswamy

    Shruthi Guruswamy

    BArch MSc MRTPI

    Arcadis

    Shruthi is an Urban Designer, Planner and Architect who is passionate about creating evidence-based design solutions that achieve the right balance between people and environment. She has led and delivered multi-disciplinary urban regeneration and development masterplans in the UK, Sweden, India and Middle East. She has published and delivered talks on sustainable development. Her core areas of focus are sustainable urbanism, climate resilience, TODs, co-design, design codes, healthy places, 20-minute communities and digital planning.

    Climate, Density, Health, Inclusive Design, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Andrew Haines

    Andrew Haines

    Postgraduate Dip Landscape Architecture, BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

    Grant Associates

    Andrew is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute with 30 years of experience in private and public sectors, working on a diverse range of projects. He excels at managing multidisciplinary teams and delivering complex landscape projects ranging from brownfield urban locations to sensitive heritage environments. Andrew has strong design, technical and communication skills, and is involved in practice administration and management. He has a keen interest in creative ecological and sustainable design. Andrew has previously been a visiting lecturer at The University of Bath.

    Landscape, People & Place

  • Mike Harris

    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.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Robert Harrold

    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.

    Climate, Housing, People & Place

  • Patricia Hawes

    Patricia Hawes

    BASc, L.Arc, PGCE

    Mei Loci Landscape Architects / Eden Project

    Patricia is a founding director of Mei Loci Landscape Architects. Her expertise lies in the design of public realm, parks and gardens, and heritage settings with award-winning projects completed across the UK, including Lesnes Abbey Woods in London; Penzance Promenade, Cornwall, and numerous town centre regeneration projects across Cornwall. Her work integrates ecology, archaeology, and stakeholder engagement to create meaningful landscapes, focusing on education, well-being, and community involvement. Patricia is also an associate lecturer in garden and landscape design at the Eden Project.

    Heritage, Landscape, People & Place

  • Fiona Heron

    Fiona Heron

    BSc (Hons), MSc, Dip LA, MA, CMLI, FRSA

    Fiona Heron Design

    Fiona is a landscape architect with over 25 years strategic and detailed experience in both public and private sectors including open spaces, squares, housing, sensitive sites and international garden design competitions. Her focus is on place-making and promoting quality external design. She has won urban design awards for both landscape and art. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she has written for the Landscape Journal, is a regular university tutor, a member of the CPD Landscape Committee, Cambridge Quality Panel and speaks at multi-professional training sessions and seminars.

    Landscape, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Jo Hibbert

    Jo Hibbert

    RIBA, ARB, AABC, SPAB Scholar

    Levitate West Design and Architecture Studio Ltd.

    Jo is Conservation Director of Levitate and has extensive experience in conserving, restoring, and renovating listed buildings. After graduating from Sheffield University in 2007, Jo worked with English Heritage as the ICOMOS Summer Scholar (New York) and worked for Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects upon completion of her diploma. In 2002 Jo was awarded a SPAB Lethaby Scholarship. Jo is church architect for significant churches throughout the southwest, sits on the Exeter DAC, and is studio tutor for the final year of Diploma at Bath University.

    Heritage, People & Place