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Highways England Design Review Panel Motorway at night © krzych-34 Design Council Cabe | January 2018 Highways England Design Review Panel The Highways England Design Review Panel are a group of 36 Built Environment Experts, including a Chair and two Vice-Chairs, appointed by Design Council to meet the specific range of disciplines and skills required by Highways England in providing an independent, expert Design Review service. Design Review meeting © Haarala Hamilton Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 2 John Lyall John is one of our most experienced Chairs. Recently John has chaired a series of reviews and He has a background as an architect and has workshops for the Lake Lothing Third Crossing designed a range of infrastructure buildings and Bridge in Suffolk and the review of the A14 installations such as the Crossness Sludge Cake Highways England road scheme. Both of these Building and the Old Ford Water Treatment schemes have benefited from John’s ability to Plant. In his Cabe chairing role he has delivered set the tone for the day as a positive engaging multiple reviews as co-chair of the Thames experience for the design teams and other Tideway review panel. The panel has been stakeholders. A critical part of a successful review looking at the key locations along the Thames is for John as Chair of the panel to encourage the and away from the river where this grand design team to share their design thinking and be engineering project comes to the surface. It will able to discuss challenging issues in a supportive create new public spaces or provide new built environment. Panel members are very much form in closed Treatment Sites that nonetheless encouraged to share their expertise and views are visible to passers-by. through the design review process in a way that helps move the project forward to the benefit of John’s approach to the Tideway Panel has been everyone and which secures the maximum public to encourage the design teams to maximise benefit from the public funds being invested. the opportunity in their schemes, while acknowledging the engineering requirements underground and particularly to enhance the potential user experience and public benefit over time. Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 3 John Lyall Lynda Addison Martin Stockley Chair Vice-Chair Vice-Chair John has been a leading architectural practitioner Lynda is a planner and transport planner who Martin has worked as a civil, structural, transport for more than 30 years, as Alsop & Lyall (1979- has worked for/within the public sector for and infrastructure engineer since 1971, in public 1991), as John Lyall Architects (1991-2011), more than 40 years. She is Director of Malcolm and private sectors and on projects ranging from currently as Lyall, Bills & Young. He has received Baker Consulting. Lynda was founder Director master plans to detailed community work. His many awards from the Royal Institute of British of Addison and Associates, an award-winning building structures work includes award winning Architects (RIBA), Royal Institute of Chartered consultancy. Previously Director of Planning and designs on new-build and historic buildings. He led Surveyors (RICS), Civic Trust and other bodies, Transport in Hounslow, she works at national the engineering team on the design for Manchester with work ranging from rail stations (North and local level supporting improvements in City Centre following the bomb damage of 1996, Greenwich: shortlisted for the Stirling Prize) to planning and transport services, including and his practice, Stockley (founded 1997), was lead urban regeneration schemes, such as The Mill on leading on planning performance and resources, consultant for New Islington Millennium Village. Ipswich Waterfront, projects on Cardiff Bay and best practice research and guidance in travel Martin also engineered a number of Manchester’s renovations of classic buildings such as the Corn planning, local plan-making and what makes iconic buildings including: No1 Deansgate, Urbis Exchange and White Cloth Hall in Leeds.John an ‘ideal planning authority’. Lynda has led on (now the National Football Museum) and Chips. received great acclaim for his four pumping stations local plans and regeneration in several London In the early 1990s’ Martin developed an approach on the London Olympic site. Other successes boroughs. As an English Heritage Commissioner, to engineering streets and public spaces which include: the Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich and the she chairs the London Advisory Committee; improved safety, environment and function. Much Goldsmiths Centre,Clerkenwell. He has served on Adviser to The Campaign for Better Transport; a of this work is embedded in the ‘Manual for Streets’ Design Review panels for many years (Cardiff Bay; Visiting Professor in Planning at the University of guidance document. Notable public realm projects Southampton; CABE; Peterborough, Haringey, Westminster; Chair of the Sustainable Transport include Ancoats and New Islington in Manchester; the London Legacy Development Corporation and Panel of Chartered Institute of Highways and Kent); John has chaired a number of panels for Poynton town centre; Stockport and New Road, Design Council Cabe including the A14 NSIP review Transport; a member of the Planning Committee Brighton. Martin has served on design review for Highways England, Thames Tideway, Thurrock of London Legacy Docklands Corporation; a panels for the North West, as chair; Midlands; Design Advice Panel and the Lake Lothing Third former Trustee of Living Streets and Town and Yorkshire; Oxford; London Legacy; Bath; English Crossing Bridge Panel; Client Design Adviser Country Planning Association; a Director of Heritage, and CABE as chair. His infrastructure (British Library); enabler for schools/courthouses Garden City Developments and an Academician. design review experience includes Bath and North and is external examiner at Greenwich University, She received her Order of the British Empire for East Somerset Transport Commission, Crossrail, Brighton, London Met and The Bartlett School services to planning in 2006 and was awarded Thames Tideway Tunnel and HS2. He currently of Architecture. John has served on the councils the Royal Town Planning Institute/Transport divides his time between Moscow and the UK. of RIBA and Architectural Association (AA), and Planning Network (RTPI/TPS) award in 2010. chaired the RIBA Trust. Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 4 Gideon Amos Maayan Ashkenazi David Bonnett Gideon is a chartered architect, planner and Maayan has worked at the intersection of David is an architect with a background in both qualified urban designer who specialises in anthropology, architecture and urban design local authority and private practice. In 1994 he sustainable development, with more than for more than six years. Having established the completed a research degree (PhD) at Oxford 25 years’ experience. One of the 8 core UK role of anthropologist urban designer at one of Brookes on designing for people with disabilities. Infrastructure Planning Commissioners, the UK’s foremost studios, she went on to set up This, as well as David’s personal experience of he helped set up and operated the national an independent consultancy for local planning disability, has made him a leading figure on the infrastructure regime, taking a keen interest organisations and is engaged in academic research subject. David Bonnett Architects was established in Development Consent Orders (DCOs) and into urbanisation and health. Maayan works at a in 1994 in response to his particular skills as design quality. Gideon led examinations, reports number of scales, including individual buildings, both architect and access consultant. Following and recommendations on the largest offshore public spaces and masterplans. She has been expansion, the practice was reformed in 2011 as wind farms in the world and the Swansea Tidal involved with a number of high profile projects David Bonnett Associates (DBA). DBA is now Lagoon. He also led on the first DCO to be made, in central London, developing interdisciplinary one of the leading Access Consultancies in the as promoted by Network Rail. In his time at the strategies to promote vibrancy, wellbeing and UK, working on significant projects, with many Planning Inspectorate he also examined Local socio-economic sustainability, by applying of the leading architectural practices both at Plans and decided on planning appeals. Gideon spatial and social analysis within the design home and abroad. DBA application of access is National Planning Advisor at Capita GL Hearn process. She is an advocate for locally led change consultancy and inclusive design skills now and works with private and public sector clients and has supported local planning organisations extends to transportation and urban design, in on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. in their consultation, design and research addition to buildings. David is author of several He is a board member at Swan Housing. strategies – developing both digital and physical publications and articles on a wide range of related For ten years, Gideon was Chief Executive of modes of engagement to increase outreach subjects. He has contributed to and chaired many the Town and Country Planning Association and participation. Maayan has worked both for national committees and continues to give talks contributing to sustainable communities and high-profile clients and, in more challenging in the UK and