Our people

Martin Lee

Associate Planner Martin joined Nash Partnership in December 2025, bringing with him nearly four decades of nationwide experience spanning both the public and private sectors.

Martin’s previous private sector roles include providing in-house consultancy services to employers and their clients. He has also worked on contracts for a range of local authorities including Swindon Borough Council, North Devon Council, South Somerset Council and Devon County Council. In addition, Martin has been engaged as an Independent Examiner on a range of Neighbourhood Plans for clients including Plymouth City Council, Wokingham Council, South Hams District Council and West Devon Borough Council and the associated Neighbourhood Forums.

With his previous roles focusing on the residential, commercial, retail, agriculture and renewables sectors, projects Martin has worked on include:

• Residential: major residential urban extension – 616 homes, Wichelstowe, Swindon
• Commercial: large scale commercial rescue and completion – 220 unit serviced student accommodation, St. Mark’s, Nottingham
• Infrastructure: 50MWh wind farm in Somerset; 37GWh solar power generation across 35 acres in East Devon; 70GWh solar power generation + 46MW battery storage in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Martin is a Chartered Town Planner and member of both the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) and the Town & Country Planning Association (MTCPA). His experience also includes a range of independent scrutiny roles such as his ongoing work as an Approved Independent Examiner for Neighbourhood Plans, and past work as a Non-Salaried Inspector for the Planning Inspectorate. Other past voluntary roles include Joint Hon Sec for the RTPI’s SW Branch Executive and Finance Governor for Minehead Middle School.

At Nash Partnership, Martin helps to lead our Planning consultancy while working closely with the leaders of our Architecture, Heritage and Placemaking services.

Chris Hall

Chris joined Nash Partnership in April 2017 after qualifying as an Architect in 2015. Previously, he studied at Plymouth University, achieving a 2.1 Degree with Honours, before completing a Masters, gained with Distinction, at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.

Upon graduating, Chris established his own practice, ‘Roots Design Workshop’, which provided architectural services for isolated communities in the highlands and islands of Scotland. Concurrently, Chris conceived, developed and managed the design and build summer school, ‘Tog Studio’, which helped community groups deliver small-scale projects through short residencies with students studying the build environment. Chris continues to be involved with higher education in his role as a studio tutor at Bath University.

More recently, Chris completed his Retrofit Coordinator training, which follows on from his interest in the retrofit & reuse of existing buildings, especially those that are hard-to-treat and have a heritage value. Chris’ skill set in being able to take a holistic design approach partnered with his understanding of traditional building materials and detailing, led him to take a leading role in the delivery of the high quality Bank of England, Rivers Street and Combe Royal heritage projects. Chris also regularly adds the role of Contract Administrator to his responsibilities, with The Pavilion being one such example, helping to ensure the projects are managed through the construction phase toward a successful conclusion and the realisation of our clients’ briefs.

Bryn Reynolds

Bryn joined us as a Part II Architectural Assistant from Reed Holland, a small residential and community-based practice in Taunton, after working for Squire and Partners in London on large high-profile mixed-use schemes such as Paddington Green Police Station.

Before studying for a master’s degree at the University of Westminster, Bryn worked as a Part I Assistant in Australia for Hassell, a multi-disciplinary practice involved in projects such as the Australian Catholic University campus, and the Sydney Metro expansion.

His role at Nash Partnership involves working on larger schemes, coordinating the design team and developing drawings for construction. He qualified as an Architect in 2026 after studying for his Part III at UWE.

Bryn’s interest lies in using combinations of traditional craft and new technologies to create architecture that helps facilitate community. He prefers to take a practical, ‘hands on’ approach, constantly learning new and old construction techniques to apply to his projects.

Maria Teodorczyk

Maria joined Nash Partnership in 2025 after completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield. Before this, she gained valuable experience by working as an architectural assistant for a small practice based in Oughtibridge.

Maria’s role involves assisting our design team with projects at various stages. From drawing up initial floor plans to preparing final drawings for clients, Maria enjoys the wide range of tasks which contribute to her professional and personal development.

During her time with us, Maria has been involved with projects including the redevelopment of the former Bath Press site, where our design team is working for City & Country on phases 1-3 to deliver the first 144 homes there) and on the technical designs for the former Bristol Zoo car park site, where our client is building 62 new homes.

Jon Cheek

With an architectural career spanning 30 years, Jon leads a team that take projects all the way through from feasibility to completion on site, with an emphasis on the construction phase. He has a particular interest in the construction phases of projects and enjoys drilling into the fine detail that can make the difference between a good design and a great design.

Jon takes responsibility for quality control and oversees the protocols and audits that are carried out to ensure a professional level of information is issued from the office. He also carries out the role of Principal Designer under the CDM 2015 regulations.

Having studied Architecture at the University of Portsmouth, Jon joined us in April 2005 and qualified in September 2009. He brings a wealth of experience in running projects, from taking the client brief to conclusion of the construction phase on site.

Richard Mather-Jones

Richard is a qualified architect and has been with Nash Partnership since June 2016.

Richard achieved his professional accreditation in 2015 at UWE following studying for his degree and post-graduate diploma at Oxford Brookes University.

Before joining Nash, Richard worked at Stride Treglown for 9 years as well as carrying out a summer placement at Design Engine in Winchester. At Stride Treglown Richard worked on a broad range of projects including a number of high profile residential and education schemes, being shortlisted for a number of regional and national awards.

Richard takes particular interest in projects located on sites of historic and cultural sensitivity. This has led to Richard’s design work becoming characterised by both contemporary and contextual architecture.

Daniel Lugsden

Daniel is very much inspired by context and the importance of understanding a place before designing ‘change’.

Daniel has been with Nash Partnership for over 20 years and a partner for over a decade. His passions are wide ranging, hence the practice continues to undertake varying scales of design work and consultation which can have positive impacts on people and the way they enjoy their lives. Recently, his passion in prime residential work, both listed and modern, has seen him working closely with homeowners, managing brief development, design, and the highest quality of delivery.  His interests also extend to varied leisure schemes, especially hotel and spa work. His experience helps to deliver clear and balanced commercial design advice.

Daniel set up Nash Partnership’s Bristol office in 2011 and our London base in 2023, developing our team and skills to make a difference in the regions they serve.

Our design studio has been voted ‘Architect of the Year’ at the SW Residential Property Awards three times since 2020, and Daniel was also runner up in the ‘Architectural Designer of the Year’ category at the National Building Awards in 2019, held at Wembley Stadium. This accolade recognises the quality and variety in scale and sector of project design work he has undertaken.

A motivated individual and a very keen sportsman with multiple international honours, Daniel applies the same focus and energy to his work whether he is understanding driving influences on the built environment and its architecture or putting pencil to paper.

He is a committee member of Constructing Excellence South West, a member of the BANES Initiative, as well as the Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee.

Huw Birchall

Assistant Planner Huw’s work involves preparing the full range of material to support planning applications. With a keen interest in heritage, much of his work involves historic and listed buildings in urban as well as rural areas, including those within the Green Belt. This also includes proposals which seek to retain and enhance the historic fabric of buildings whilst balancing new aspects of development to bring buildings either back into use or up to current living standards.

Huw is a strong advocate of successful placemaking and has worked with our team on social housing regeneration schemes in Wiltshire and Gloucester. He also conducts planning research for our individual homes clients, presenting key information about the site and its constraints. Huw also advises on any potential barriers to development and how best to navigate them, helping to ensure a successful outcome for our clients.

After completing a BA in Urban Design, Planning & Development at Oxford Brookes University, Huw gained an MSc in Urban Regeneration with the designated heritage pathway at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL). As part of his studies, Huw explored planning practices for urban development in historic cities and neighbourhoods. He also completed substantial research into the conservation of historic and listed railway buildings in London, seeking to enhance the effectiveness of policy in preventing the demolition of railway heritage assets.

Before joining Nash Partnership in 2024, Huw worked at land and measured survey company Atlas Surveys in Newport where he was involved in projects across the residential, commercial, education, utilities and defence sectors. In his role at Nash Partnership, he enjoys working on a range of high-quality projects which make a positive difference to people’s lives, whether they are for existing or prospective residents.

Rebecca Brown

Building on her experience in a spatial agency based atelier at the Manchester School of Architecture, Rebecca became interested in the role of the architect and its connection to clients, the public, and other members of a build team. She also has a passion for the re-use of buildings and materials to maintain a sense of place and character whilst giving them a new lease of life.

Rebecca joined our urban design team in 2018 and enjoys going on site and seeing the building process up close. Since joining, Rebecca has worked on a number of high profile and award-winning community and regeneration projects across the UK. These include:

• ‘Streets for People’, a public realm design project in Pontefract which won a national Planning Award in 2021
• A community-led project to regenerate the centre of Southmead in Bristol, which has been ‘highly commended’ at national as well as local awards

James Bishop

James is a Senior Architect. He has previously worked as a project architect for Falconer Chester Hall in London.

Amanda Taylor

Amanda has a strong background in the design of urban regeneration, masterplanning and housing schemes. She has wide ranging experience in creating schemes for clients that range in scale from 20 to 11,000 dwellings and has worked for clients across the marketplace including housing associations, private developers, local authorities and clients overseas.

Amanda joined Nash Partnership in 2006 and is responsible for the management of a team that delivers large scale housing and regeneration projects. The projects she works on are typically residential or mixed use in nature on green and brown field sites or regeneration projects involving existing towns and neighbourhoods.

Amanda also carries out analysis to inform proposals for strategic sites, produces design guidance in the form of design codes and manages the design and delivery of Reserved Matters planning applications for large scale sites. She organises and attends resident and stakeholder consultation events and works closely with councillors.

Amanda is an Architect and many of her developments have won national design awards. She has published a research document in the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal and lectures at conference events.

Amanda is a qualified Building with Nature Assessor and a Design West Review Panel member, reviewing the quality of projects in the South West as part of a technical panel.

Laura Mitchell

Laura is a member of both our Placemaking and Heritage teams and has project experience from design inception, heritage assessment of significance and architectural value, heritage impact of proposed interventions, masterplan development and the planning application process through public consultations. She has worked on sensitive green and brownfield sites with existing buildings and complicated site constraints.

Laura continues to expand her skills in residential, mixed use, conservation and construction projects and uses her CAD and 3D skills to develop high quality imagery and visuals for projects. As part of developing her urban design and planning skills, she is applying GIS both as a spatial database and as an analysis and modelling tool.

Paul Miller

Paul is our Director of Sustainability and works within the Placemaking team. Joining Nash Partnership in 2016, he is a qualified architect with over 25 years’ experience gained in London and the South West.

Alongside senior tier colleagues, Paul leads and shapes the practice’s long-term sustainability strategy, has helped to develop a Sustainable Future brochure, and carries out project sustainability audits.

His career spans from working on building sites, detailing and designing individual buildings with an emphasis on sustainable design, through to developing visions for sites and preparing masterplans. He has worked primarily in the residential and mixed-use sectors, focusing on masterplans, outline and detailed planning applications for both green and brown field sites. He has also worked on offices, hotels, listed buildings, community, educational and public buildings and has a strong interest in passive environmental design.

Paul has helped deliver a number of projects ranging from a sustainable award-winning retrofit and a low energy education building, to permissions for residential and mixed-use new neighbourhoods and masterplans within green belts, AONB and on brownfield sites. Most recent projects include proposals for nearly 1,000 homes and mixed-commercial uses in Exeter, an award-winning estate regeneration for nearly 280 new and refurbished homes in Taunton, a community-led development of over 180 flats and other uses in Bristol, and an affordable estate regeneration housing scheme of 85 homes in South Gloucestershire.

For the last five years, Paul has also acted as a voluntary student mentor as part of the RIBA ‘Future Architects’ mentoring programme.

Alison Lugsden

Alison is a chartered town planner and has been a member of the RTPI since 2004. With over 20 years’ experience in the private sector, her track record and expertise strengthens Nash Partnership’s ability to steer projects through the planning process. Combined with our regeneration and design skills, she is able to find new solutions where traditional development approaches have failed.

Alison joined us in 2010 and plays a key role in delivering planning advice to private and public sector clients acting for land and property owners, commercial institutions, local authorities and individual homeowners. She is involved in all stages of planning applications, negotiations with LPA’s, preparation of representations to Local Plans, site appraisals and appeals. She has experience on a diverse range of schemes and dealing with complex planning issues. She works with clients to navigate planning constraints such as conservation areas, listed building status, sensitive AONB and green belt locations, and to identify opportunities that planning policy and a site can present.

Jonathan Gomes

Jonathan graduated from the University of the West of England with a passion for urban design and the creation of places for people. Much of his experience has revolved around this, especially in the residential sector. He also has a drive to use the latest technologies to further this goal. Whilst at university, he used virtual reality (VR) to present a regeneration scheme in the town of Coleford, providing residents with the ability to design elements they would like to see. Another example is his use of augmented reality (AR) technologies to create a digital space for an exhibition in the physical world using a head-mounted display, providing a way for the digital world to enhance the physical.

His experience ranges from small residential developments through to large scale mixed-use regeneration plans. More recently, his experience has included a hotel facility with listed status in the heart of Bristol, as well as other challenging projects.

Jonathan is based in Wales and first joined Nash Partnership in 2016. After a brief period of leave to complete his Part II qualification, he returned to us in 2020.

Joseph Hunt

Joe joined us in 2012 and has sole responsibility for the Finance function of the practice. He manages all day-to-day financial functions, internal management reporting and forecasting essential to the business.

Joe graduated from UWE (Bristol) with a degree in English Literature in 2001. Counter-intuitively, Joe was then sponsored by a large construction company in West London to study accountancy at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College. He achieved AAT full membership (MAAT) in 2009 and then became a Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA, CGMA) in 2019.

Bruce Clark

Bruce is the Senior Conservation Architect of the Heritage Team. He joined Nash Partnership with a background in Listed Building, commercial and public sector projects.

Bruce is an advocate of learning from the millennia’s history that buildings provide, as being relevant for today’s sustainability challenges. His experience includes large-scale commercial and leisure developments, retail fit-out, schools, churches, police stations, as well as private housing and community and museum projects that have had lottery funding. He is well versed in resolving conflicts between the brief, the site and legislation constraints with financial reality.

Bruce has helped guide the practice’s development and understanding of sustainable issues, looking beyond the immediate thermal and financial impacts into how buildings work with communities and their setting. His experience over 35 years means he understands the issues that arise from combining modern building techniques with old buildings. He spends much of his time surveying structures to understand their development and causes of problems. He is a strong advocate of understanding and using a building’s inherent passive qualities over relying on technocratic solutions.

Bruce is a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). He is also on the Architects Accredited in Building Conversation (AABC) register, and renewing his RIBA Specialist Conservation Architects’ registration. Bruce is a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association (EASA), on the Salisbury and Bath & Wells lists of architects and surveyors.

 

Tina Hosking

With over a decade of working at Nash, Tina has developed her skills in HR, Health and Safety and looking after the building, alongside her Personal Assistant role for Partner, Daniel Lugsden. Tina has developed a comprehensive understanding of workplace dynamics and employee well-being. In addition to her HR role, Tina is deeply committed to pastoral care, providing compassionate support and guidance to our team.

In addition to her professional career, Tina is a dedicated martial artist and a keen yoga practitioner which has instilled discipline, focus, and resilience. Her passion for yoga complements the martial arts practice, offering a balanced approach to physical and mental wellness.

Tina combines her professional skills with her personal interests to promote holistic health and safety in the workplace. She believes in the power of mindfulness and physical fitness to enhance productivity and employee satisfaction, often encouraging a yoga session or a brisk walk up the hills in Bath.

Robert Locke

Robert has extensive knowledge and experience in both historic building works and new build construction projects. Having worked as a retained consultant for English Heritage for a number of years, he has been responsible for co-ordinating repair and conservation programmes and carrying out condition surveys on key and highly sensitive historic sites through the South West.

As Partner, Bob takes responsibility for developing the skills and knowledge of the practice to meet the very highest standards of design and production quality at all stages of development and delivery. This focus has translated into successfully growing the scale and range of projects across the company. He has overseen the expansion of our business into Bristol – including the completion of the beautiful conversion of Burwalls House and collaborating with Terry Farrell and Wilkson Eyre on major regeneration projects both locally, in London and internationally.

With over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry, Bob always applies the practical considerations of buildability to schemes, while delivering quality and award-winning projects. In addition to the design management of projects Robert also offers our clients specialised services covering contractual advice and principal designer duties.

John Everett

John joined Nash Partnership in 2010 as a Senior Architect. Since then, he has risen rapidly to Design Studio Director and is a key member of the team focused on growing the range and scale of projects in Bristol.

John has a proven track record of design and delivery for schemes of varied scale, from bespoke dwellings to multi-million-pound mixed-use developments. He brings a collaborative approach to design projects, bringing in the relevant specialism or technical expertise required to deliver a project on the ground.

Passionate about the city of Bristol, John has managed schemes across the city promoting high-quality design, appropriate re-use of vacant buildings and sustainable designs according to a client’s project requirements. These include the award-winning McArthur’s Yard in central Bristol (142 new apartments with ground floor commercial space), Cumberland Road (19 apartments and two commercial units close to the harbourside) and Old Brewery (a scheme of 94 homes plus retail and co-working space in Southville).

In addition, John is carrying out technical design work for the following Bristol projects:

• College Road: 62 new homes at Bristol Zoo’s former car park site in the Clifton conservation area
• Trinity Road Police Station: 104 affordable units and a new neighbourhood policing facility at this central site
• Leinster Avenue: 71 new homes (100% affordable) at this site in Knowle

Further afield, John has delivered projects including the design and co-ordination of a complex new HQ building in London’s Saffron Hill and the construction delivery of a £20m 14-storey residential tower development in Plumstead. He is currently leading the construction delivery phase of a significant development at the Bath Press Works in the city of Bath.

Before joining us, John worked at London-based Alan Camp Architects where he worked on a variety of residential (private and affordable) led projects plus mixed-use schemes range from £1m to £25m in value.

John studied at Portsmouth University and obtained his qualified architect status from Kingston University in 2007.

Hamish Bogle

Hamish joined Nash Partnership after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Plymouth, where he specialised in creating highly contextual, community-oriented, and sustainable designs. His studies also extended into masterplanning work focusing on embracing a wide demographic to inform a mixed-use urban community.

With a keen interest in the principles of reuse and retrofit, Hamish is passionate about designing solutions that breathe new life into existing structures while contributing positively to the environment and local communities, preserving the character of that location.

Donna Fooks-Bale

Donna takes care of our internal communications and external marketing. She brings to the table more than 20 years of communications experience in a range of sectors – from property to publishing and from professional services to the public sector.

After gaining a master’s degree, Donna became a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and is now an Accredited PR Practitioner. She continued her studies with the Chartered Management Institute, achieving a L5 Diploma in Management and Leadership.

With a CIPR Diploma under her belt, Donna blends a strategic and analytical approach with hands-on experience. Her eyes are set firmly on helping to achieve the practice’s vision by engaging our clients, contacts, colleagues and the communities we work with.

Kevin Balch

Kevin acts as a project lead on a range of projects – from small design-led listed building extensions to large multi-consultant teams on projects with a build cost ranging from £70k to £12m.

Over the years, he has built up considerable skills in dealing with the complexities of briefs for clients who may not necessarily have got projects off the ground before. Many of these projects have involved sensitive planning and listed building permissions; building large extensions within the protected greenbelt zones or major alterations to Grade II and Grade I listed structures.

Because of the bespoke design nature of most commissions, many of Kevin’s projects involve the full RIBA workstages from inception to completion, where clients particularly value the quality of the built design.

He is interested in innovative solutions to complex problems, understanding how we can do more for less and procuring responsible architecture that is a delight to inhabit or pass through. A key aspect of this is understanding what clients actually require and then making it happen.

Kevin is comfortable conveying ideas through hand sketches but equally capable with the major software packages, with a keen interest in photography and digital manipulation.

Ice Sapnak

Ice is working as an Architectural Assistant within our design team while continuing to build the skills and experience needed to become an Architectural Technologist.

She joined Nash Partnership in 2025 from Stride Treglown, where she spent two years as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant. During this time, Ice worked on a wide range of projects, including Bath Western Riverside Phase 2, and The Vectura Inhalation Centre of Excellence at the Bristol & Bath Science Park.

Ice has a keen interest in architectural technology and believes in the power of design to create real, positive change in our environment – from what we can preserve and how our designs impact the world around us, to how we can keep improving through thoughtful solutions.

A guiding principle in Ice’s professional journey is the belief that “Your journey is unique, and so is your destination. Embrace the detours and enjoy the ride.” Ice approaches her career with this perspective, valuing both the destination and the evolution it takes to reach it.

Julie Watson

Julie coordinates and manages the administrative team for both our offices in Bath and Bristol. She also provides a full PA service to the Partner, assisting him with the general running of the business.

Julie joined us in 2003 with over 25 years’ administrative management experience in the construction industry.  She also supports with company administration duties as part of our wider business operations.

Oliver Leemans

Starting as a Designer, 3D Visualist and CAD Manager, Oliver’s passion for technology has led him through his career as an IT professional within the building design industry.

As IT Manager for Nash Partnership, he delivers often complex infrastructure solutions that follow best practice with a security orientated approach. He takes pride in developing long term but scalable solutions to enhance efficiency and production.

Clare Williams

Clare supports our Financial Manager and looks after the administration and processing of our invoicing and payments, as well as producing reports. She joined us with experience in financial administration and holds an AAT qualification (The Association of Accounting Technicians).