Panel

  • Tom Littlewood

    Tom Littlewood

    Bsc (Hons) Hort. Dip LA CMLI

    Ginkgo Projects Ltd

    Tom is an experienced Cultural Producer working across the arts and built environment sectors. He has over twenty five years of experience of promoting design excellence and the rich narratives that cultural programming brings to place development. He is founder and Director of Ginkgo Projects Ltd. working throughout the UK, visioning, curating, and delivering cultural projects that integrate the work of artists and makers as a key element within environmental, architectural and regenerative schemes. Tom is co Director of Filament Works CIC which is focused on developing a more resilient, diverse and progressive cultural ecology in Torbay and the wider region.

    Inclusive Growth, Landscape, People & Place

  • Jonathan Lloyd

    Jonathan Lloyd

    BEng (hons), MCIHT

    SLR Consulting Ltd

    Jonathan has over twenty years’ experience providing highways and contemporary mobility and placemaking advice for clients across multiple sectors as well as overseas projects. Jonathan’s passion for schemes that deliver real social value, enable people to make positive mobility choices, meeting carbon reduction and health objectives. Jonathan is proud to have been involved with the RTPI, advising on pathways to Net Zero Transport, helping inform the Governments future zero carbon policies.

    Highways & Transport, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Martyn Lonsdale

    Martyn Lonsdale

    BA (Hons), DipLA, CMLI, DipUD, RPUD

    Lavigne Lonsdale

    Martyn has 30 years experience of providing masterplanning, urban design and landscape architectural services on large scale, award-winning projects. He is the founding Director of Lavigne Lonsdale and oversees both the Truro and Bath studios.

    Landscape, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Joe Mapson

    Joe Mapson

    Theatre BA (Hons)

    Charcoalblue

    Joe is a Design Principal at Charcoalblue, a leading theatre and venue design consultancy, where he specialises in the design of stage engineering equipment and the project management of design briefs across Charcoalblue’s global portfolio. His current role builds on a previous career of diverse and hands-on production management and events and circus rigging, where he gained extensive experience of working in theatres, events and festivals

    People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Laura Menzies

    Laura Menzies

    BEng (Hons), CEng, MICE

    Buro Happold

    With a background in infrastructure design and construction, Laura has enjoyed a varied career across the technical design, coordination and construction of projects from the London 2012 stadium to two new cities in Kuwait. Her varied experience covers; flood risk, highways, drainage, utilities and earthworks. She has contributed to the delivery of a wide range of solutions to infrastructure challenges, and has developed an adaptable, collaborative approach to design development.

    Climate, Highways & Transport, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Claire Miller

    Claire Miller

    PAS 2035 L5 Dip, PGCert, MArch, Architecture (BA Hons), Furniture & Interior Design (BA Hons)

    Askew Cavanna Architects

    Claire is a highly creative Chartered Architect and Retrofit Coordinator/Designer with 15 years industry experience. She is currently an Associate at Askew Cavanna Architects. Her passion is working with existing buildings to create energy efficient, beautiful, inclusive places that bring social, environmental and economic value through design. She has worked on a number of award winning projects including the Soil Association HQ and Docklands Youth & Community Centre, both in Bristol. Claire is also a Board of Trustees for the Centre for Sustainable Energy, a charity supporting people and organisations to tackle the climate emergency and end cold homes.

    Climate, Heritage, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Eve Murzyn

    Eve Murzyn

    MArch, BSc (Hons), PGC, ARB, RIBA

    HTA Design LLP

    Eve leads the Bristol office of HTA Design an architectural practice with a focus on housing and has been with HTA since 2013. She has experience in urban design, masterplanning, architectural design, estate regeneration, community consultation and has worked in architectural practice for 18 years. Prior to joining HTA Eve worked for Farrells in Hong Kong working on mixed use projects across Asia, before that she worked for Powell Dobson Architects in the UK on a variety of residential, mixed-use and leisure projects. Eve has also volunteered for Architecture for Humanity whilst located in Cape Town, South Africa and for an architectural practice in Auckland, New Zealand. She has been involved in international development projects in developing countries working with non-profit organisations and aid agencies.

    Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Peter Neal

    Peter Neal

    BA (Hons), DIP LA, MDeS (Harvard), Dip Ecology, FLI

    Peter Neal Consulting Ltd

    Peter is a landscape architect, environmental planner and ecologist. He specialises in planning, design, funding and management of green infrastructure frameworks, urban parks and the public realm. Formerly head of public space at CABE, he has given evidence to Select Committees on the Future of Public Parks, appointed as a Green Space Commissioner by the Mayor of London, is a project mentor for the National Lottery Heritage Fund and a fellow of the Landscape Institute.

    Ecology, Landscape, People & Place

  • Cleo Newcombe-Jones

    Cleo Newcombe-Jones

    BA, MSc, MRTPI

    Bath and NE Somerset Council

    Cleo is a town planner and urban designer specialising in urban regeneration and community led and co-designed projects. She has completed numerous Masterplans, development briefs and delivered a number of major schemes including public realm, meanwhile use, green infrastructure, conservation/redevelopment and development projects for both brownfield and greenfield sites. Cleo’s work has won awards for large scale community engagement and excellence in planning and partnership working. Cleo has a passion for design and has undertaken research into the regeneration in post industrial cities in Canada, USA and Eastern Europe.

    Heritage, People & Place, Strategic Development