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  • Vaswar Mitra

    Vaswar Mitra

    BArch, MSc UD, CMLI

    Sole practitioner

    For 13 years Vaswar has worked as a Landscape Architect and an Architect in UK and India. He has worked on a range of completed projects at all stages, including a biodiverse public realm for Bristol Temple Quarter, and an innovative ‘Terminal in a Garden’ airport in Bangalore, India. His core areas of focus include people and culture, sustainability, inclusive design and design technology. In addition he is an Examiner for the Landscape Institute and mentors candidates for their chartership.

  • Caitlin Mullard

    Caitlin Mullard

    BSc (Hons) MArch ARB RIBA CA

    Purcell

    Caitlin is an accredited Conservation Architect who specialises in working in historically significant settings on the repair and creative reuse of listed buildings. She has primarily worked on cultural projects for public sector clients with complex funding arrangements. Caitlin combines working in practice with teaching at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

    Heritage

  • 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

  • Andrea Nelmes

    Andrea Nelmes

    BSc, CEnv

    Phil Jones Associates

    Andrea is a chartered associate sat within the Water Resources Team at PJA. She has over 20 years of successfully delivering complex projects across a wide range of Water Sector disciplines, including Water Resource Management, Sewerage Improvement Schemes, Flood Risk, SuDS Design and River Restoration. A technical specialist in flood risk, river restoration, drainage strategies including wastewater modelling, SuDS design, EIA and water management. Andrea is highly experienced at working with and for regulatory bodies, where her role with each of these authorities has varied significantly, ranging from flood risk and water management advice to delivering strategic plans and schemes. Collaborating with these various authorities and regulators has provided me with an extensive knowledge of the regulatory framework governing the water industry, enabling me to provide responsive, pragmatic advice on a range of multidisciplinary projects across England and Wales.

    Water

  • 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

  • Helen Newman

    Helen Newman

    BA (Hons) Dip. Arch (Cambs) RIBA (CA)

    Ferguson Mann Architects

    Helen is a RIBA award-winning architect and chartered conservation architect. Her extensive experience over the last 25 years designing and delivering projects spans many sectors from education, leisure, residential and blue light as well as extensive experience in the adaption, repair and restoration of listed buildings adopting sustainable construction strategies.

    Heritage

  • Shabnam Noor

    Shabnam Noor

    RIBA, RIAS, ARB

    Stories by Shabnam Noor Architects

    Shabnam is an architect with robust expertise across architecture, sustainability, business case development and construction management. She set up her practice in 2015 after working with award winning firms on diverse projects, including the mixed-use Quadrant 3 in Piccadilly Circus for The Crown Estate, and the housing and public realm for Battersea Powerstation. Shabnam is passionate about her obligation as an architect to civic engagement and to improve the quality of our built environment. She has a special interest in designing for social inclusion and integration, encouraging urban rewilding and biodiversity, and designing dynamic and adaptable spaces that serve the community.

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

  • David Orr

    David Orr

    DipLA CMLI MCIHT

    David Orr Consulting

    David is an urban designer and landscape architect designing complex urban and rural development projects of all kinds, from small residential developments to masterplans for urban extensions and new communities. His focus is on designing the movement and landscape narrative to create good places. This comes from experience in designing projects including Trafalgar Square, many high street improvements and a range of mixed use masterplans. David has worked extensively on regenerating historic towns and has prepared a number of public realm design guides and strategies. His projects include movement and urban design frameworks for urban districts, market towns, mining and seaside communities across the UK. He is a Design Council Expert and High Streets Task Force Expert.

    Landscape, Strategic Development