Urban Design London

HAT Projects

Design England

Troy Planning + Design

The Collaborative City

AR Urbanism

Making Places Together Ltd.

BPTW

Michael Hayes Consulting Ltd.

Extended Studio

The Glass-House Community Led Design

Fern Consulting Services Ltd

Rachel Aldred is Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy at Westminster University. She currently leads projects funded by organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Research and Department for Transport, and has published more than fifty peer-reviewed journal articles.

Dr Laura B. Alvarez is a writer, critic, and commentator, with more than 20 years in international urban and architectural practice, in which she has designed award-winning schemes and written ground-breaking, award winning planning guidance that has place democracy at its core.

Laura’s research on socially sustainable neighbourhoods led to the development of applicable theory and has been widely praised for its innovative approach. She lectures at various universities and collaborates with acclaimed institutions, publications, and broadcast media.

Campaigner for what works well in housing. Co-author of Building for Life 12. Judge, rapporteur and director of the 70 year Housing Design Awards. Currently developing a toolkit for NHS Healthy New Towns to promote the design features that promote well being in new homes.

Dinah is a co-director and co-founder of ZCD Architects. She leads on child friendly cities and urban design and is an expert in this area, publishing research, contributing to books and journals and advising local authorities and developers. Dinah is a Mayor's Design Advocate, a Design Review Panel member for Harrow and Hounslow councils and a member of the Hackney Regeneration Design Advice Group. 

Patricia Brown is a strategist advising civic and business leaders on creating positive change. She has led some of London’s most significant urban changes, from establishing the BIDs movement in the UK and Legible London – aimed at transforming our built environment – and policy – with people at the heart. She is Vice-Chair of the British Property Federation’s development committee, chairing its Great Places Campaign. Previous roles include Chair of London Festival of Architecture and Vice-Chair of the Mayor’s Design Advisory Group, where she was behind the Good Growth agenda – now core to the draft London Plan.

Matthew Carmona is a Professor at The Bartlett, UCL.  He is an architect / planner and expert in processes of urban design and the governance of design.  He is Chair of the Place Alliance.

Neil established Metropolitan Workshop in 2005, and is experienced in leading complex mixed-use residential masterplans, collaborating with many of the UK’s best housing practices. During his career, he has designed major urban projects and buildings in sensitive contexts of conservation, heritage and greenbelt, in locations such as Durham, Oxford, Cambridge and London. Neil serves on a range of Design Review Panels, including DCCabe, Croydon, Newham, Harrow, and provides Urban Design for London with training programmes for Local Authorities on principles of Urban Design.

Max is the Founder and CEO of the London Collective, a virtual network of built environment experts and creatives fighting hard to improve people’s lives and the planet’s prospects. Their members are world-renowned experts in social impact, zero carbon and modern methods of construction as well as architects, engineers, graphic designers and film makers. As a diverse and eclectic group they are bound by a set of values and a cost-effective business model. Whether it's a thought leadership campaign or the design and construction of a piece of city, they are a ‘one stop shop’ for projects anywhere in the world. As self-employed entrepreneurs they can tailor-make teams without the overheads, convening and disbanding for place-based projects like a film’s cast and crew.

Max was previously a Partner at internationally renowned architects Farrells before leaving to set up the London Collective in 2019. Whilst at Farrells, he led on high profile projects including London’s new business district at Royal Albert Dock, award-winning proposals for low-level  bridges in East London and 21st Century mansion blocks as  affordable housing designed for off-site manufacturing. Max was Project Leader for the Farrell Review, commissioned by the UK Government, which made sixty recommendations spanning education, outreach and skills; design quality;  cultural heritage; economic benefits and architecture policy. He is an adviser to London National Park City, Urban Design London, the Arts and Place Consortium, the Urban Room Network and the Place Alliance.

Phil is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in the planning and design of highway and other infrastructure, with particular expertise in transport planning and street design for new developments. He specialises in achieving synergy between street/urban design, with the aim of creating places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims.

Peter Jones is Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development in the Centre for Transport Studies at UCL.  He is a member of the Independent Transport Commission, the DfT’s Science Advisory Council and co-chair of its Joint Analysis Development Group, and a member of the City of London Transport Strategy Board. He is Scientific Co-ordinator for the EU funded ‘MOST’ project, looking at how to design and manage urban main roads to address future challenges.

Steve began his career as a trainee planner having studied geography at Durham.  He took a post graduate qualification and became an RTPI member in 1982.  Steve moved to Yorkshire to be Head of Development Control and then in 1988, he was made Head of Planning. In 1996, Steve was appointed as a Director of Planning and Environmental services which included all front line services except for housing benefits.  During 2004/05, Steve was president of the POS. The opportunity to take up the role as Chief Planner at MHCLG in 2008 proved to be one Steve could not resist. In this role, he is the head of Profession and have done significant work to promote and champion the role of planning in the civil service.  A current objective is to raise the profile of the benefits of good design across Whitehall and beyond.

David is Head of Major Projects Sponsorship within Surface Transport at Transport for London (TfL).  His responsibilities include larger new infrastructure scheme being promoted by TfL, such as the Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf pedestrian & cycle crossing and the Silvertown Tunnel, as well as leading for TfL on larger third party schemes, such as HS2.  He has a keen interest in design having previously undertaken various roles for TfL, as well as in local government and consultancy, that involved the development and delivery of new streetscape and urban realm schemes across London.

Dr Elanor Warwick career’s has spanned architecture, urban design, academic and operational research, aiming to shape national policy and embed good practice. She is Head of Strategic Policy and Research for Clarion Housing Group, one of England’s largest Housing Associations. Previously Head of Research at CABE, she managing a diverse research programme across all sectors of the built environment and design process. Her research interests and publications cover estate regeneration, defensible space, housing quality, new towns and planning for new settlements, Lifetime Neighbourhoods and measuring intangibles such as design, wellbeing and social value. She is a postgrad supervisor at UCL and Cambridge University, currently teaching housing to planners. Elanor is a member of the Edge, the Academy of Urbanism, and an Urbanista.