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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.

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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 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. 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 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; ; 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 . In his time at the strategies to promote vibrancy, wellbeing and UK, working on significant projects, with many 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 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 abroad. David is visiting Professor national infrastructure policy. The lead author environments, on self-initiated change for security of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and of Standards for Eco-towns (2009), he initiated and health in Nairobi’s slums. She trained at a member of the Quality Review Panel for the research to reinvent the Garden City concept the University of Cambridge, University College London Legacy Development Panel. for the 21st century. He is now an Association London and the London School of Hygiene and Vice President and was awarded an Order of the Tropical Medicine. Her current research examines British Empire (OBE) for services to sustainable urban wellbeing as it relates to the integration of development in 2009. diverse user groups in European cities.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 5 Adam Brown Jessica Bryne-Daniel Andrew Cameron

Adam has been in architectural practice for Jess has more than 25 years’ experience in the Andrew is an engineer with a background in 25 years. He co-founded Landolt and Brown field of landscape design. Her particular interests transportation, architectural engineering and architects in 2006, following 15 years’ work lie in meaningful design and strategy formation urban design. He has more than 20 years’ with John McAslan, and is currently engaged on that ensure the unique essence of place is experience in how we can plan for movement various public sector projects across London. celebrated in a collaborative response to the while at the same time creating great streets With specific experience in infrastructure client’s aspirations. She has worked with various and enjoyable places. He has been involved projects and regeneration masterplans, design practices promoting a thoughtful approach to in many regeneration and masterplanning briefs and area action plans, current work projects that challenge mediocrity in design and projects for villages, towns and cities in the UK includes major regeneration commissions in where possible encourage users of the finished and around the world. These include the £8bn Tottenham working for the Greater London scheme to become involved in the design process. Earls Court redevelopment which will stitch Authority, Haringey and ; Recent work has included the re-design of the new London streets into the fractured fabric of including two new stations; a major public open setting for the Chichester Festival Theatre and this part of the city; and proposals for Chicago space; public sector-led residential development the design and implementation of a productive Lakeside, a community of 50,000 people south and workspace; retail and meanwhile-use housing estate landscape, including a residents’ of the downtown, with new city wide transit initiatives for local creative industries/producers. foraging plan and the sensitive relocation connections, a human-scale, slow-speed, Adam is also leading Landolt and Brown’s high of the Happisburgh caravan park to avoid it strategic highway through the site and two miles profile commission for Peckham Rye’s new succumbing to the ravages of the North Sea. of lakeshore walking and bike trails. Andrew station square, which includes the formation of a She currently works as a consultant for Camlin has acted as an advisor to the government for new public open space in the heart of Peckham’s Lonsdale landscape architects and teaches the House of Commons Select Committees on town centre with a mix of local retail, healthcare, Landscape Design at Leeds Metropolitan Housing and Sustainable Communities. He is co-worker and community facilities; developed University. She sits on a number of Regional co-author of national and local design guidance, in dialogue with the local community through the Design Review panels including Integreat Plus, including The Urban Design Compendium, Peckham Codesign process. Adam is a fellow of and is a member of the Cabe Oxford Design Designing Streets (for the Scottish Government), the Royal Society of Arts, and current member Review Panel. Manual for Streets 1 and 2 and The Abu Dhabi of Southwark and Hackney’s Design Review Urban Street Design Manual. He is a Design Panels. He is a member of the Mayor’s Specialist Review Panel Member for MADE, OPUN/Design Assistance Team and has contributed to the and Places Matter. Mayor’s Cycling Advisory Group and Roads Task Force.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 6 Richard Cass Peter Clash Lynne Ceeney

Richard qualified initially as an architect Peter founded Clash Associates Architects in Lynne is Global Head of Sustainability for a and landscape architect. He has more than London in 1994, working in urban design and professional services company, with 25 years’ 40 years’ experience in housing, transport, masterplanning, transport and infrastructure, experience of sustainability in the built environment. leisure, education, industry, heritage, health bridges, arts, education, hotels and leisure – with She assists design teams to integrate sustainability and public space; and as a masterplanner and projects completed in the UK, France, Holland into development proposals and works with project manager on large-scale regeneration and China. Recent built work includes a new organisations to help them embed sustainability projects. Projects include the 100ha Riverside building for the Imperial War Museum at the in their decision-making processes. Lynne is an Regeneration project in Liverpool and the Churchill War Rooms, London; new hotels at expert in collaborative design and masterplanning, 1000ha Bishopton new settlement. At Design Cardiff and Newcastle railway stations; Tianjin enabling stakeholders with different skills and Council Cabe Richard served as a Commissioner, Fishing Port, China; and the Level Centre, experience to design and deliver sustainable places. a member of the London 2012 Olympic and Derbyshire. The practice has won many awards She also supports organisations and project teams Legacy Review panels, vice-chairman of the and been published widely. Peter trained at the on resilience. Key projects include: Environmental Ecotown review panel, and on design review University of Bath, and then worked with Foster Review Panel assessing proposals for the 2012 panels for other large-scale developments. He Associates in Hong Kong, and also with Mitchell/ Olympics Athletes’ Village; manager of two Scottish has also served on advisory panels in north- Giurgola on the New Australian Parliament Sustainable Communities Initiative programmes west England for the Liverpool Docklands and Buildings in Canberra. He was a project director – visioning and design charrette in Callendar; Atlantic Gateway projects. He is a trustee of with Allsop and Lyall Architects, London from stakeholder workshops for the local plan Major Heritage Works Building Preservation Trust 1986, realising projects such as Sheringham Pool, Issues Report in sensitive rural locations; Technical and chairman of the Cass Foundation. He has Lambeth River Station and Canary Wharf lifting Director for sustainability assessments of alternative wide experience of sustainable development, bridges/control building. He led design teams infrastructure route alignments; Technical Lead demonstrating how environmental, economic on large infrastructure projects including Cardiff for Climate Change Adaptation reports for major and social objectives can be delivered together, Bay Barrage, Crossrail Paddington, and Bangkok airports; Technical Contributor to a Green Economy rather than in competition. This covers technical Transit System. Peter has taught at various study for a large unitary authority in the east of aspects such as renewable energy, transport and schools of architecture in the UK since 1989, and England. Lynne is appointed to the Institute of drainage, as well as wider land use, ecological as visiting professor at TU Vienna (University Environmental Management and Assessment’s and masterplanning issues. He has a particular of Technology). He is a Royal Institute of British Strategic Advisory Council. She was a member of the interest in health and the environment, and how Architects (RIBA) Client Design Advisor and Board of the Academy for Sustainable Communities, design can contribute to improving both. has been a Built Environment Expert for Design and the Homes & Communities Agency Skills and Council Cabe since 2009. Knowledge Panel.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 7 Annie Coombs Michael Coombs Sophia de Sousa

Annie is a landscape architect; a fellow of the Michael graduated as a Civil Engineer from Cape Sophia joined The Glass-House in June 2005, Landscape Institute (LI), with a postgraduate Town University and started his working life and is committed to the charity’s mission: to planning qualification. She began her career building roads in the Kalahari Desert. He then raise the standard of placemaking through public in the public sector and has held senior joined a team designing long-span bridges on the participation and leadership in the design of management roles in environmental consultancy Garden Route, before completing a postgraduate the built environment. As Chief Executive of organisations. Annie sat on the group board of a year at Imperial College. Since 1977, at Alan The Glass-House, she ensures that community UK environmental management consultancy as Baxter and Associates, he has worked on a participation and leadership in planned managing director for Asian businesses, holding wide variety of building projects and bridges. development and regeneration is not a token board responsibility for risk management and More recently, he has become interested in gesture, but a valuable means of informing good, human resources. She worked in Asia for more placemaking and urbanism; in particular the role inclusive, sustainable design, that benefits local than 15 years, with responsibility for offices in Hong that designers of buildings and infrastructure people and leads to long-term improvement of Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Her project play in fashioning the character of towns and neighbourhoods. An advocate of cross-sector work in Hong Kong was mainly on assessment and cities. He has worked in several of the UK’s most partnerships, she believes them essential to landscape planning for major infrastructure and significant historic buildings, helping to develop the success of placemaking and community new towns. She is now an independent consultant an approach which is evidence-based rather than empowerment. She worked in Italy as a teacher/ and enabler, engaged in green infrastructure and rooted in theory, explaining how they work using trainer and consultant to universities, and major environmental regeneration. She sat on three contemporary thinking. He has also engineered museums in Tuscany. Sophia was co-founder design review panels, including CABE’s national several special new-build projects in the full and President of a small voluntary organisation panel, is joint chair for the North West’s panel: range of structural materials. Michael is involved in Florence that celebrated increasing cultural Places Matter! A Building for Life examiner, and in the training of young professionals and the diversity. She returned to the UK in 2003. examining inspector for major infrastructure with overall management and direction at his firm. A strong speaker, facilitator and enabler of the Planning Inspectorate (PINS), and a Glass- He balances this with a hands-on contribution community-led, participatory, collaborative, and House enabler. For 10 years Annie has undertaken to the firm’s projects, mainly at the conceptual co-design practice/research. Currently active in enabling and training work, including open space, design stage, but also in detail on selected interdisciplinary, collaborative research within green infrastructure and public realm strategies, projects. Michael has served on the Board of the Higher Education (HE), and Visiting Fellow flood recovery plans, rural settlement options, Association for Consultancy and Engineering at the Open University. She is a passionate design competitions and localism. She part wrote and chaired its Membership Committee. champion for playful environments and creating the brief for the 2012 Olympic Parklands. Annie is accessible resources to support engagement with an active volunteer community planner. design and better collaborative processes.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 8 Noel Farrer Karl Fitzgerald Julie Greer

Noel is the founding Director of Farrer Karl [Master of Studies (MSt), Batchelor of Julie is an urban designer, planner and heritage Huxley Associates, set up in 1995. He is recent Engineering (BEng), Chartered Engineer (CEng), consultant with experience gained in Toronto, past-president and Fellow of the Landscape Member of Institute of Engineering (MICE)] is Canada and the UK. In 2006 she set up Greer Institute where he campaigns for landscape-led a chartered civil engineer with particular focus Pritchard Planning Consultancy and is currently placemaking. As a passionate advocate for the on transport planning and masterplanning for leading on the refurbishment of a Grade II* social and environmental importance of high- large-scale development projects. With more listed building, and several major mixed use quality landscapes, he contributes actively to than 25 years’ experience in consultancy and the developments across London. She has held the government’s Design Advisory panel for public sector, he has been responsible for major planning positions with Barnet, Wandsworth, housing, Design Council Cabe’s infrastructure transport planning and masterplan projects, and the City of Westminster and Southwark and design panels and other regional panels. design of public transport and infrastructure. Council, where she established and managed Noel is a regular columnist and visiting lecturer Karl coordinates strategic projects for the the Design and Conservation team, and set up on landscape architecture. His design clients Advisory Team for Large Applications and acts as London’s first Design Review Panel. While at include The Royal Parks, Great Portland Estates, an advisor to a range of public and private sector Southwark, Julie led the design response for U+I, Peabody Trust and many local councils, groups engaged in the development process. major redevelopments including: the Shard; Neo delivering projects ranging from housing, A particular focus is the planning for large-scale Bankside; Tate Modern Extension; Bankside123; education, parks and public realm. Noel has mixed-use developments, and new communities. and the Elephant and Castle Masterplan, boundless energy contributing in the continued He has advised government departments on establishing a reputation as a planner who exploration of the right solutions to deliver the programmes such as Public Sector Land and ‘raised the design bar’. Principal Design Advisor perfect places for all people to enjoy living and Large Scale Infrastructure Funding and Housing for the Olympic Delivery Authority, where she working. Zones. Previously he was responsible for was responsible for the Evolution Phase of the technical input to major initiatives such as the Legacy Masterplan as well as the Olympic Village new town of Northstowe and the Hospital Sites and provided specialist advice to the Planning Programme for the Homes and Communities Decisions Team. Julie has held positions on Agency. Karl is an enthusiastic advocate for good the Commission for Sustainable London 2012, design and for an interdisciplinary approach to where she reviewed the Olympic Park Legacy engaging professional skills and disciplines. He Company’s Masterplan, design codes and is also a trained mediator and experienced in planning applications. She is a panel member for facilitating stakeholder events and negotiation Southwark’s and Wandworth’s Design Review processes. Panels and currently advises London’s Skyline Campaign. Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 9 Phil Jones Maria Kheirkhah Janice Morphet

Phil is a chartered engineer with extensive Maria is a multidisciplinary artist and academic, Janice is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning experience in the planning and design mapping systems of visual knowledge and Institute (RTPI), has been a planner for 45 years of highway, with particular expertise in culture, particularly that of the Middle East in and has degrees in sociology, management, transport planning and street design for new relation to the UK. Born and raised in the north literature and a PhD in politics. Following developments. He specialises in achieving of Iran, she first travelled to the UK in 1979. Here a career in local government and higher synergy between street and urban design, with she pursued her art education, specialising in education, she was a senior adviser on local the aim of creating places and spaces that meet sculpture and obtaining an MA at the University government modernization at the Department aesthetic, social and functional aims. of Central England (1997). Maria travelled for Communities and Local Government He is the Managing Director of Phil Jones back to Iran in 1988, teaching at two major (DCLG), 2000-05, and since 2007 has devised Associates, a firm which conducts transport universities in Tehran: Alzahra University and and supported infrastructure delivery planning planning, design and research work. He was The Academy of Arts. Since returning to the as part of local plans. Janice was a Department part of the team that produced: Manual for UK in the early 1990s, she has completed many for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) appointed Streets, for the Department for Transport (DfT), artistic projects with major London art galleries member of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s and was a lead writer on: Manual for Streets 2, and museums. Maria has taught and exhibited Planning Committee (2006-12), and has been a for the Chartered Institution of Highways and extensively both in the UK and internationally. trustee of the RTPI and the Town and Country Transportation, DfT and Cabe. Previously a Cabe She is a trustee/board member at the 198 Gallery, Planning Association. Visiting Professor at the Space enabler, he has carried out numerous London, co-runs The Practice Exchange seminar Bartlett School of Planning, University College assignments, including projects in Cumbria series at Chelsea College of Art and Design and London, she has held senior posts including as and . He is a member of is a lecturer at Richmond University. Among her local authority Chief Executive and Head of a expert panels for Midlands Architecture and the numerous exhibitions and presentations are: Planning and Landscape School. Member of the Designed Environment; OPUN: Design East Conversation Pieces, 1001 questions, Tate Britain RTPI’s English Policy Panel, she has chaired Midlands; Design South East, the Northern 2009; The Psychology of Fear, 198 Gallery committees at the RTPI since 1974. Her recent Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group and 2008; and The Anatomy Of Ignorance, Current books are: Modern Local Government (2008), Transport for London. He is a trainer for Urban thinking, Tate Modern 2007. Effective Practice in Spatial Planning (2010), Design London on street design and cycling. How Europe Shapes British Public Policy Actively involved in cycling initiatives at national (2013), Applying leadership and management level, Phil led on the Welsh Government’s Active in Planning (2015) and Infrastructure delivery Travel Design Guidelines and is a member of planning: an effective practice approach (2016). DfT’s Cycle Proofing Working Group.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 10 Peter Neal John Pugh-Smith Kay Richardson

Peter is a qualified landscape architect, John was called to the Bar (1977), and is both a Kay is a Chartered Landscape Architect and environmental planner and independent practising planning barrister and commercial qualified Urban Designer enjoying a varied consultant with 25 years’ professional mediator. With a particular practice focus on career of 22 years in association with non- experience. Initially trained at Manchester, he medium and large scale residential development; departmental public bodies; local authorities; holds a Master’s in environmental planning retirement and care homes; and enforcement, environmental design professionals; and from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and John brings professional experience, gained international sustainability innovators, trainers a Diploma in ecology from University College over 35 years, to his role as successful mediator and activists. Kay is always keen to explore London. He has worked in the public, private and coach, dealing with a wide range of clients how design thinking, creativity and mindful and not-for-profit sectors on planning, design, and issues for both public and private sectors, practice can be harnessed to create space for training, teaching and research projects. including special interest groups. His specialist social change where environment, community, Formerly Head of Public Space at CABE, Peter mediations have included leading examples to heritage, productivity, creativity and innovation established and led the organisation’s national resolve an intractable land-use enforcement lead. As a designer advocating distinctiveness, public space advisory programme for more than matter within an An Area of Outstanding craft and resilience, Kay has devised and initiated seven years. He was seconded part-time to the Natural Beauty; a major ‘stalled development’; an exemplar landscape character assessment Olympic Delivery Authority for three years, a £4m environmental damage claim, and the strategy, now rolled out across Surrey; and providing design advice for the development of resolution of a high profile heritage dispute. founded The Pugmill Bakehouse, a wood fired the Olympic Park and co-authoring a book on John has been at the forefront of initiatives to community kitchen. A social enterprise that the project. Peter is a recognised expert in the use Alternative Dispute Resolution in town and celebrates the crafts and traditions of utilitarian planning, design, funding and management country planning, including as a panel member pottery and communal food production, of public parks and open spaces. He was of the Department for Communities and Local the project has contributed an innovative commissioned by Nesta, the national innovation Government’s “section 106 brokers”. He is also restoration of a Victorian ‘country’ Pottery for foundation, to write the research report a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a local community and business use. A Heritage Rethinking Parks, and authored The State of UK consultant member of the Retirement Housing At Risk Adviser for Historic England, Kay Public Parks for the Heritage Lottery Fund. Peter Group. identifies heritage assets most at risk of being is a member of the South and East Design Panel, lost due to neglect, inappropriate management a project mentor for the Heritage Lottery Fund; or development, and works to find viable uses a member of the Land Trust’s Development consistent with their conservation. Partner Panel, and a Fellow of the Landscape Institute.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 11 Anna Rose Yasmin Shariff Nick Sharman

Anna is an architect and urban planner with more Yasmin is an architect in practice since 1986. Nick is a local government consultant and his than 13 years’ expertise in advising on mixed-use She has held senior posts in public, private work has included assignments for the Local urban masterplans and public realm projects. and academic sectors. A director of Dennis Government Association, the Cabinet Office’s She has extensive experience of working with Sharp Architects; was a Senior Lecturer at the Commissioning Academy, and Design Council. private and public sector clients on complex University of Westminster; and Head of Design He was Director of Local Government at A4e, masterplanning projects, with a particular focus of a multi-academy sponsor, responsible for leading the development of regeneration on the design of effective human behaviour managing fourteen major school projects over a programmes linking physical and social aspects patterns. Her expertise targets optimising spatial period of three years. She was elected Honorary of regeneration. Previously he was Managing connections for the benefit of pedestrians, cyclists Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Director, Local Government at Amey plc, where (walkability, safety and conviviality) and local Architects and the Architectural Association and he managed a £400m portfolio of partnership businesses (proximity to footfall, interchange appointed non-executive director of the East of based service, and Private Finance Initiative and density of amenity). Anna recently led Space England Regional Development Agency. Yasmin delivery contracts with Councils across the UK, Syntax’s spatial planning studies for the Bristol has hands on experience of delivering complex employing over 4,000 staff. Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone masterplan projects, including the transformation of Listed for the Homes and Communities Agency, and Buildings at Ascot Racecourse, and proposals advised Transport for London, the Greater London for renewing Robert Adam’s first London Authority (GLA), and the London Borough of house: Chandos House. She has worked for Camden on the likely public realm impacts of HS2 several publicly funded organisations, including in the Euston Area. Currently, she is advising the Transform South Yorkshire. Yasmin is a director London Legacy Development Corporation on the of the International Committee of Architectural urban integration of the ‘Olympicopolis’ sites: Critics and Secretary of the Franco Britannic University College London, East and Stratford Union of Architects. She was appointed as an Waterfront. In addition to her work in the UK, evaluator for the European Union; a judge for the Anna leads Space Syntax’s design and consulting World Architecture Festival; and an assessor for activities in the USA and continental Europe. She the Civic Trust; the Technology Strategy Board, speaks regularly at industry and academic events and Innovate UK. She currently chairs the AA worldwide, and is an Honorary Research Associate XX 100 steering group, working to celebrate at UCL. Anna is a member of the UK Academy of a centenary of women at the Architectural Urbanism. Association in 2017.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 12 Ros Southern Alexandra Steed David Ubaka

Ros, BA (Hons), MPhil is a chartered landscape Alexandra is a landscape architect and David is a Director of D.U.P. Limited - a design architect and member of the Landscape Institute. masterplanner with 15 years of experience, with a and implementation consultancy for clients in Ros was a founding director of Southern Green major interest in art and sustainability. the public and private sector. His expertise spans Landscape Architects in north east England, She has worked internationally and at all project architecture, public realm, urban design and where she has been based since her graduation scales. Whilst Design Studio Lead at Aecom regeneration. David prepares viability appraisals from Newcastle University in 1990. Ros London, Alexandra directed the Qatar Public and development requirements for housing, specialises in urban regeneration design projects, Realm Strategy and Guidelines project for the retail and commercial developments over,or near particularly in sensitive landscape and heritage State of Qatar. As Director of Martha Schwartz to, transport infrastructure. locations. Her portfolio includes Student Forum: Partners London office, she worked on a number an award winning public square at the historic of projects including the mixed-use Wellington heart of Newcastle University; ‘Tweed and Place scheme in Leeds. Alexandra now runs her Silk’: a public realm strategy for Berwick upon own studio, Alexandra Steed URBAN, and is Tweed (published in hardback); and Stephenson currently working on London projects, including Quarter Newcastle, leading the landscape an alternative scheme for the Royal Mail Site masterplanning and design for this major mixed with the Mount Pleasant Association, under the use development. She has particular experience Greater London Authority’s Community Right in landscape and visual assessment and is an to Build programme. She is developing a new expert witness with public inquiry experience. campus landscape for SKY TV Headquarters, Ros is a Professional Practice Examiner London. Alexandra is a chartered member of the and Pathway to Chartership mentor for the Landscape Institute. Landscape Institute, and has lectured to student landscape architects/architects as a visiting tutor at Newcastle University. Ros is passionate about landscape led masterplanning, and the integration of green infrastructure and enhanced biodiversity into development. She also has a particular interest in working collaboratively with artists to seek creative and integrated design solutions.

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 13 Paula Vandergert Charles Wagner Helen Walker

Paula has over twenty five years’ experience Charles was Head of Planning and Urban Advice at Helen is an urban planner and built environment as a sustainability professional. She is a English Heritage (EH), until April 2015. A Chartered strategic policy analyst, focusing on the practical research fellow at the University of East Town Planner and member of the Institute of delivery of and skills required for sustainable London Sustainability Research Institute, and Historic Buildings Conservation, he studied communities and places. She previously worked a director of not-for-profit enterprise, Resilient Civil Engineering, then Building Conservation for the Department of Communities and Local Communities. She has a PhD from the London with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Government (DCLG) and held senior posts at School of Economics and Political Science and Buildings (SPAB) and Architectural History. At EH, the Environment Agency. As senior adviser for a postgraduate certificate in urban design skills Charles carried out the listed buildings resurvey, the government’s Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, from the University of Westminster. Paula is and undertook casework for listed buildings in she was responsible for professional support currently part of the research team for the EU- London and historic areas in the Midlands/East for neighbourhood regeneration, Housing funded “Transitioning Towards Urban Resilience Anglia. Charles developed public realm policy/ Market Renewal Areas and local authorities. and Sustainability (TURAS)” initiative, which practice in London (1999) and produced ‘Streets Helen developed new protocols for community brings urban communities and businesses for All’ streetscape manuals. He worked on the engagement and design quality in sustainable together with local authorities and researchers, EH/CABE guidance on tall buildings, Heritage communities and created learning support for to collaborate on developing practical new Works guidance for developers, and Enabling design-based economic objectives, as national solutions for more sustainable and resilient Development Guidance. Charles worked on the advisor at the Local Government Association. European cities. As part of this project, she works Thames Gateway, seconded to the Homes and She h been a specialist advisor to two House of closely with local authorities and businesses in Communities Agency (2009) as Strategic Historic Commons Select Committees and produced East London, Brussels and Rome on major urban Environment Adviser. Charles assisted with EH’s the National Competency Framework for local sustainability initiatives in each of these cities. input into the National Planning Policy Framework authority planners for DCLG. Helen is a former Prior to this role, Paula was the project manager and its guidance (2011), developed EH’s guidance on local authority team leader working in planning, for CABE’s Sustainable Cities programme, which Neighbourhood Planning and Localism, developed community engagement, economic regeneration, was developed with the eight English Core Cities. its farm building’s assessment tool, and developed sustainable development and conservation. EH’s microgeneration advice. Charles now runs his Previously chair of urban development and own consultancy, is an SPAB Guardian, President regeneration at the University of Westminster, she of the Association for Studies in the Conservation now teaches on the MSc Town Planning course of Historic Buildings, and sits on the Haringey at the University of Brighton. Civic Trust Awards Quality Review Panel, West London Amenity, and national panel judge; a former CABE enabler Neighbourhood Planning Groups. (2008 –2011).

Highways England Design Review Panel | January 2018 14 Lorna Walker Michael Wells Jane Wernick

Lorna is a sustainability consultant with Mike is a professional ecologist and eco-urbanist, Jane is a structural engineer. She founded Jane more than 40 years’ of experience in the built with 25 years of consultancy experience and 35 years Wernick Associates in 1998, has won many environment sector. She has her own practice in ecological science. He led the ecological design awards and continues to work with many and is an Examining Inspector with the Planning for the Athletes’ Village in Stratford for the 2012 leading architects. Projects include: the Young Inspectorate. A former Director of Arup – where Olympiad, and the regeneration of the Greenwich Vic Theatre, the Kew treetop walkway, and the she was leader of the global environmental Peninsula. Mike is an Academician of the Academy Living Architecture Houses. She worked for Arup business – and former CABE commissioner of Urbanism, a Board Member of the Operational (1976-1998) and set up and ran Arup’s Los Angeles having had responsibility for sustainability and Board of the Sustainable Environment Foundation, office (1986-88). Jane was seconded to Birdair health and wellbeing. Recent projects at the a Board Member of the Bristol Urban Design Structures, Buffalo, New (1980-81). Her most Planning Inspectorate, examining nationally Forum and a Committee Member of the All Party notable Arup project was the Millennium Wheel. significant infrastructure projects, include Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity. He has Jane was a CABE National Design Review Panel a nuclear power station, an offshore wind trained regional staff within English Partnerships member; a member of the multidisciplinary built farm and a strategic rail freight interchange. (now Homes and Communities Agency) around the environment think tank, The Edge; member of She has a BSc in Chemistry and Mathematics UK on designing for biodiversity. Mike has lectured the steering panel of RIBA’s thinktank, Building and MSc in Civil Engineering, concentrating on the Cities Programme of the London School Futures, edited: Building Happiness – Architecture on public health; and honorary doctorate of of Economics. He assisted in providing evidence to Make You Smile. Jane was elected a Fellow engineering from the University of . for the Farrell review of architecture in the UK, of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), an Lorna is a recognised authority in the fields of has chaired the main lecture forum of Ecobuild, Honorary Fellow of RIBA and was a member of the sustainable development, climate change, urban and adjudicated in national design competitions. Equal Opportunities Task Force of the regeneration, water quality and waste treatment. He is currently serving on Building Research Industry Council between 1998 and 2013 (as chair Member of numerous policy making panels, she Establishment Environmental Assessment in 2010). She has taught at numerous schools of is often consulted in the preparation of proofs of Method’s Strategic Ecological Framework Strategic architecture and engineering including Harvard’s evidence, planning enquires and litigation cases, Policy Working Group. In 2006 he co-founded Graduate School of Design (1989 and 1995), a and as an independent technical reviewer of her Biodiversity by Design Ltd through which he Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association peer’s work. She has travelled extensively in her pursues opportunities for innovative design of green (1998-2003), The John Portman Visiting Critic at work, and is a Visiting Professor at the University and blue infrastructure, working in the creative gaps Georgia Tech, Atlanta and RAE Visiting Professor of Sheffield. between ecology and other disciplines including of Design at Southampton University. Jane is architecture, landscape architecture, civil and currently serving her third term on the Council of structural engineering and art. the Architectural Association.

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