• Martin Sullivan
• James Brown
• Mark Farrar
• Jen Heal
• Lauren Brown
• Liam Hopkins
• Michelle Tuck
• Serena Yao
• Wendy Richards

Wendy is a Chartered Landscape Architect and an Urban Designer with just short of 25 years experience across sectors working in the UK, Hong Kong and Brunei, South East Asia.

Wendy is rooted in interdisciplinary, collaborative design working across landscape and urban design with the desire to always understand the strategic vision for a project, influence the direction and delivery of the design process and seek opportunities to provide added value.

With a track record of coordinating and writing design guidance and project delivery, Wendy has acted as lead consultant in the private sector and had an intelligent client role in the public sector for schemes of various sizes. Wendy has also delivered design training to local authorities and members across Wales and has a Foundation Certificate in Training Delivery

Paid employment is mixed with voluntary work whenever possible, as a trustee of Llamau, a homeless charity and a front of house volunteer at the Architecture Centre in Bristol combined with continued work with the Design Commission for Wales as co-chair of Design Review.

Key Experience

• Co-ordinating multidisciplinary groups of professionals for design work.
• Facilitating discussions with local authority officers, members and communities through design work.
• Urban and landscape design combined with a thorough understanding of the importance of design hooks in planning policy.

What do you think makes a successful place 'work'?

Vibrancy, somewhere with pockets of intimate space and shelter which make you pause for thought. Where there is investment and support for independent traders.

What is your favourite place & why?

For 2013, that would have to be watching the fisherman on Odayam Beach, Varkala, India. Time, ‘progress’ and resort development along this west coastal strip in Kerala seems not to have touched their daily routine.

What interests you outside of work?

A continually growing music CD collection to compete with my husbands vinyl and an obsession with Scandinavian and British mid-century ‘finds’. I am a trustee at Llamau a homeless charity I hope to do their ‘Sleep Out’ this year if I can raise the funds.