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Frazer Osment
BA(Hons), MPhil, CMLI
Chair
LDA Design
Frazer is Chair of LDA. He has broad understanding of the forces driving change in urban and rural environments and specialises in helping places and organisations adapt. As an experienced masterplanner and urban designer he translates strategy into clear and implementable proposals, particularly through design coding. Frazer has advised on major new settlements and urban centres across the UK. He initiated Liveable Exeter which aims to direct transformational housing delivery to lever investment into streets, spaces and infrastructure. Frazer recently led research for RTPI on spatial solutions to decarbonise transport and worked with RTPI and RSPB to prepare model design codes for net zero and nature recovery.
Paul Britton
BSc (Hons), DipTP, MRTPI
Local Government Association
Paul is a qualified town planner with over 20 years’ commercial experience delivering high quality developments throughout the UK. He has worked within multi-functional teams on site acquisitions; undertaken detailed masterplanning / planning applications; and project managed the direct delivery of strategic schemes through joint ventures.
Clare Phillips
BSc DipArch RIBA AABC
Purcell
Clare is a conservation accredited, award-winning architect. She has over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering projects across multiple sectors. Her recent projects include large scale residential projects with adaptive re-use and new build elements in London and Bristol. She has also developed a specialist expertise in cultural heritage and museum projects with third sector clients. Clare has extensive experience implementing sustainable strategies in the adaption, repair and restoration of listed buildings.
Louisa Philpott
BA MSc
Consultant
Louisa has over 27 years experience in architecture and masterplanning, in the West, with a focus on sustainability and climate adaptation. She has worked across the public and private sectors on strategic sites, mixed use urban masterplanning and planning policy. She is a consultant urban designer with experience in leading on national and international projects with themes of Town Centres, Zero Carbon Housing, Just Transition in masterplanning, carbon management and climate risk analysis.
Simon Power
BSc PGDip MSc PhD CEnv CGeol MRTPI MCIWEM
Mott MacDonald
Simon is an urban geographer, strategic town planner, infrastructure designer, regeneration consultant and consenting specialist with 30 years’ experience of leading interdisciplinary planning and sustainability teams. He is experienced in complex schemes involving transport-oriented infrastructure, also in early-stage policy, strategy and feasibility studies. In 2022 he completed a place-based PhD in Geography and Planning. Previously his career covered highways, rail, energy and water projects as well as urban regeneration. He supports Design Commission for Wales in panel reviews and workshops and is a Member of Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Simon’s recent work includes major regeneration frameworks: Bristol Temple Quarter, Frome Gateway and Bristol City Centre.
Raadiyah Rifath-Dodsworth
BArch, MArch, PgDip, MA, ARB, RIBA
AtkinsRéalis
Raadiyah is a specialist education architect with a focus on schools in particular across the state and independent sector. With experience through all RIBA stages of work, Raadiyah has insight on the development of infrastructure within masterplans, a working knowledge of cradle-to-cradle embodied carbon initiatives from an interdisciplinary viewpoint and shares a passion for community based projects, integrated into inclusive environments.
Alan Ringe
BA Dip Arch RIBA
GJR Architects
After studying construction technology at South Devon College, Alan studied Architecture at Plymouth and has practiced at director level for over 30 years. He has worked on projects in Retail, Commercial, Leisure, Hospitality and Housing. He has experience in master planning and urban design, and worked extensively on projects within conservation areas. Alan has successfully worked on numerous listed buildings throughout the Southwest. Alan has extensive experience working with multiple disciplines in construction projects both private and public. Alan is also a fine furniture maker, having studied at Bridgwater and studied Art History with the Open University. Alan has sat on and presented to review panels for a number of years.
Richard Rose-Casemore
BA (Arch) Dip Arch (Dist) FRSA RIBA
Chair
Design Engine Architects
Richard is a co-founder of Design Engine Architects and enjoys working in all sectors and at all scales: from masterplanning to interior design, with architecture at the centre. Before the creation of Design Engine in 2000, Richard was a director of Architecture PLB, senior architect with Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, and an associate of ORMS. He has been the recipient of numerous national and international design awards during 25 years of practice, and also received the Stephen Lawrence Prize for his own house in Winchester. Richard has a particular passion for teaching and has been a regular visiting critic or external examiner at the Bath, OBU, Brighton, UCL Bartlett, Portsmouth and Plymouth Schools. Previously a member of CABE, Richard has been involved with several Design Review Panels across the South of England and now focuses solely on Design West.
Peter Sandover
BSc, BArch, RIBA, HKIA
Sandover Associates
Peter has more than 30 years’ experience in sustainable architecture, masterplanning and regeneration. Over recent years he has focussed on community planning, neighbourhood plans and community engagement strategies primarily in the South West. He is a Design Council Expert Associate, a Neighbourhood Planning Champion and chair of the South Devon National Landscape Partnership. On all his projects he sets out to demystify the development and planning process and build local confidence and capacity.
