Westminster City Council has formed a Design Review Panel to advise on big development, planning, public realm and regeneration projects.
The independent panel comprises 32 members from fields including architecture, ecology, sustainability, transport, inclusive design and heritage. It is chaired by Catherine Burd, founding director of Burd Haward Architects; Damion Burrows, managing director at DMBA; and Vinita Dhume director of masterplanning and urban design at Savills.
Councillor James Small-Edwards said: “There are more than 11,000 listed buildings in Westminster, and the city is home to some of the most recognisable buildings and public spaces in the world. This panel will ensure the future development of the city is sustainable, supports our communities, and maintains the high quality of architectural design that makes Westminster so special.”
Burd said: “Our aim will be to ensure design quality is placed at the heart of decision making in the city… I’m interested in exploring how the need for growth is balanced against impacts on existing communities, and how new development can contribute to the wider public good in our city – be it through provision of high-quality new open spaces, well-designed sustainable new buildings or creative, adaptive reuse of existing buildings.”
The other members of the panel, along with their areas of specialism, are:
- Deborah Saunt (architecture, urban design and public realm)
- Abagail Batchelor (housing and architecture)
- Mike Stiff (architecture and urban design)
- Katy Gharemani (architecture, housing and mixed use)
- Justin Nicholls (architecture, placemaking and retrofitting)
- Marion Baeli (architecture, retrofitting and sustainability)
- Amir Ramezani (architecture, master planning and public realm)
- Juliet Aston (architecture, conservation architecture)
- Jade Huang (architecture)
- David Ogunmuyiwa (architecture and urban design)
- Petra Marko (placemaking, public spaces and architecture)
- Deborah Nagan (landscape architecture, public realm and urban design)
- Archie Bashford (landscape architecture, urban design and planning)
- Chao Gao (public realm and landscape architecture)
- Mirko Farnetani (embodied carbon, circular economy and regenerative design)
- Camilla El-Dash (environmental design, sustainability and architecture)
- Amad Kayani (sustainability, buildings services engineer, historic buildings and retrofit)
- Andrew Moore (sustainability)
- Liz Smith (heritage)
- Sarah Jackson (heritage)
- Joanna Kelly (heritage)
- Timur Tatlioglu (heritage)
- Helen Kane (inclusive design)
- Rita Olufunmi Adeoye (inclusive design)
- Dr Maayan Matz Ashkenazi (urban design and anthropology)
- Kosh Kar (transport and infrastructure)
- Lorna Sewell (transport and urban design)
- Stacey Cougill (ecology)
- Biljana Savic (urban and community-led design)
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