Our people

Lucy McGregor

Part I Architectural Assistant

Lucy McGregor

Architectural Assistant Lucy joined us in September 2023. She holds a BSc in Architecture from Cardiff University, which included a strong focus on working with existing buildings. Lucy is currently studying for a masters (MArch) in Architecture, combining academic study with her practice-based role at Nash Partnership.

Since joining Nash, Lucy has continued to strengthen her experience by working on a range of placemaking and design projects. These include proposals for the regeneration of a large site in Bristol and designs for the extension of an individual home in Ringinglow.

Lucy is looking forward to further honing her design skills in readiness to qualify as an architect.

Alexandra Egge

Associate Planner

Alexandra Egge

Award-winning chartered town planner Alexandra Egge joined us in December 2023.

Alex brings to the practice a multidisciplinary approach to placemaking and a proven track record of delivering complex masterplans, town centre and placemaking plans, regeneration frameworks and heritage consents. She helps to lead our team of planning consultants while working closely with the leaders of our architecture, placemaking and heritage services.

Alex joined the team from Arup in London, where her work ranged from strategic mixed-use development strategies and masterplans to net zero evidence studies for multiple London boroughs. Projects included providing technical expertise to create legacy-led urban design strategies for communities impacted by HS2.

Before joining Arup, Alex was a Senior Town Planner at Mott MacDonald in Cardiff. Here, she co-ordinated a range of disciplines to deliver strategic masterplans for regeneration projects at Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central Station. She also worked on planning and masterplanning elements of the Temple Quarter development framework in Bristol, which is one of the largest regeneration areas in the UK.

During her career, Alexandra has won several awards including the 2021 ‘Rising Star’ Award (We Are The City: Infrastructure, Transport & Logistics category) and the 2019 ‘Young Planner of the Year’ award (RTPI Cymru). Alex’s research on the impact of urban design and infrastructure on wellbeing has been internationally recognised and endorsed by Welsh Government.

Through each chapter of her career, Alex has maintained an overriding interest in the social impacts of planning and design – be that in relation to the benefits of transport infrastructure or by unpacking the idea of ‘Pride in Place’ and what that means for placemaking.

Alex is actively involved in the ‘Business West Initiative in BANES’ as well as the Bath Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee.

Richard Mather-Jones

Associate Architect

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

Partner

Daniel Lugsden

Having grown up and studied in areas of coastal and rural beauty, 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 since 2014. His passions are wide ranging, hence the practice continues to undertake varying scales of design work and consultation that can have positive impacts on people and the way they enjoy their lives. Recently, his passion in prime residential work, whether listed or 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 2019, 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.

Jonathan Gomes

Architect

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.

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. 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.

Amanda Taylor

Director of Placemaking

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 Design Council Expert and also recently qualified as a Building with Nature (BwN ) Approved Assessor.

Rebecca Brown

Architect

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:

Alison Lugsden

Associate Planner

Alison Lugsden

Alison’s track record and expertise strengthens Nash’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 home owners. She is involved in all stages of planning applications, negotiations with LPA’s, preparation of representations to Local Plans, site appraisals and appeals.  A specific area of focus for Alison is rural planning work in the green belt and open countryside.

Away from the office she has formerly played a role with the Bristol Junior Chamber, elected onto the Council of Management for a number of years.

Paul Miller

Director of Sustainability

Paul Miller

Paul works within our Placemaking team and joined Nash Partnership in 2016, after 19 years working for London practices including Jestico + Whiles, CPP Architects and John Thompson & Partners/JTP. He is an experienced architect who studied at Portsmouth University and qualified as an architect in 1999.

Paul’s career spans from working on building sites, detailing and designing individual buildings with an emphasis on sustainable design, contract administration and developing visions and masterplans. He has worked primarily in the residential sector, focusing on masterplans, outline and detailed planning applications for both green and brown field sites. He has also worked on offices – both new-build and refurbishment – hotels, listed buildings, community and public buildings and has an interest in passive environmental design.

Throughout his career, Paul has helped deliver a number of projects ranging from an award-winning sustainable retrofit of an office building, a sustainable education and training building for a small charity, to a number of permissions for residential and mixed use developments within the green belt and AONB.

Verity Beament

Senior Planner

Verity Beament

Verity is responsible for guiding projects at Nash Partnership through the planning stage. She has experience in heritage and sensitive projects throughout the South West, as well as research projects for local authorities, working on appeals, and preparing many different types of applications.

Verity’s previous experience includes a combined four years of working at heritage architectural practices in Bristol. Before this, she studied for a Masters’ degree in Architecture and an Undergraduate dual degree in Architecture and Planning at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

She has a particular interest in urban design and masterplanning to create more sustainable and healthy communities and an appreciation for historic buildings and landscapes.

Verity is working towards becoming an RTPI Chartered town Planner. She enjoys working in a team with a diverse set of skills and using her interests and background in architecture and planning combined.

Mel Clinton

Director of Planning and Regeneration

Mel Clinton

Mel is a planner and regeneration practitioner with extensive public, private and third sector experience. His career has taken him through roles in planning policy, development management, regeneration and project delivery in North Wales, West and South London, Midsomer Norton/Radstock, Bath and Bristol.

Exposure to a variety of planning roles early in his career established Mel’s belief that planning must be a tool for delivery, with an understanding of the nuts and bolts of the planning process set within a broader appreciation of the factors that shape the built environment and the wellbeing of communities.

Where planning policy appears to present a barrier, his instinct is to look at the objectives that lie behind the policy. This provides a basis for creative solutions that deliver positive development outcomes.

Before joining Nash Partnership, his work for a number of local authorities, a regeneration partnership and the setting up of a community interest company has given him an understanding of public sector agendas, the role of stakeholders and the requirements for successful delivery.

Outside the office, Mel is involved in a voluntary capacity in community-led projects and planning initiatives.

Donna Fooks-Bale

Practice Profile Manager

Donna Fooks-Bale

Donna takes care of our internal communications and external marketing. She brings more than 15 years of communications experience to the table from a range of sectors – from property to publishing and from professional services to the public sector.

With a CIPR Diploma under her belt, Donna blends a strategic and analytical approach with plenty of 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.

Robert Locke

Partner

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.

Laura Mitchell

Associate Architect

Laura Mitchell

Laura is a member of both our Urban Design and Conservation team 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.

Edward Nash

Consultant - Founding Partner

Edward Nash

Edward Nash founded Nash Partnership in 1988 with a focus on projects involving historic buildings and sites that acknowledge heritage sensitivities. He steered the gradual expansion of the skills of the practice to create a multi-disciplinary team with an unusually diverse understanding of how change happens in all aspects of the built environment.

Edward remains a source of knowledge for the practice in the wide diversity of client sectors and skills.

Edward was born in one of the cotton mill towns of Lancashire. He studied architecture at the Royal West of England Academy School of Architecture securing his BA and Diplomas there. He is on the RIBA’s Conservation Architects’ register and the Architects Accredited in Building Conversation Register (AABC).

Edward’s professional interests are focused on understanding and influencing the quality of processes through which built environment change happens. He is interested in how built environment professionals of all kinds deepen their skill and effectiveness through working together around sensitive, positive placemaking.

Edward’s most successful projects have involved large regenerative change on historic brownfield sites such as Kingston Mills in Bradford on Avon. Such locations in towns, often working over decades the practice has delivered notable, accumulative positive change, particularly in Cheltenham, Bath and Bristol.

John Everett

Director of Design Studio

John Everett

John joined Nash Partnership in March 2010 as a Senior Architect and moved across to the new Bristol office in June 2015 as an Associate. He has been a key member of the team focused on growing the range and scale of projects in Bristol.

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. This includes the construction delivery of a £20m 14 storey residential tower development in Plumstead.

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

Tina Hosking

PA to Daniel Lugsden, Facilities and HR Manager

Tina Hosking

Tina manages the HR, facilities and health & safety needs of the practice, alongside her Personal Assistant duties for Partner Daniel Lugsden. She is enthusiastic in everything she does and brings wide-ranging skills to the business.

Tina joined us in 2012 with over 25 years’ administrative experience in the architectural, medical and brewing industries.

In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family, reading and practicing karate, yoga and gymnastics.

Oliver Leemans

IT Manager

Oliver Leemans

Starting as a Designer, 3D Visualist and CAD Manager, Oliver’s passion for technology has led him through 17 years 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.

Kevin Balch

Director of Heritage and Reuse

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.

 

 

Julie Watson

PA to Robert Locke and Admin Manager

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.

Jon Cheek

Associate Architect

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 from 1991 to 1998, 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.

Joseph Hunt

Financial Manager

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. Joe then completed his Chartered Institute of Management accounting exams in 2016 (CIMA Adv Dip MA). He is currently working towards becoming a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Clare Blackwell

Finance Administrator

Clare Blackwell

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 six years ago with experience in financial administration and holds an AAT qualification (The Association of Accounting Technicians).

Chris Hall

Architect

Chris Hall

Chris joined Nash Partnership in April 2017 as a qualified Architect.  He is driven by an ambition to open up the processes behind the conception and delivery of building projects, partly by increasing the involvement of the public and students of the built environment. The movements of sustainability, well-being and mindfulness are a growing influence on Chris and he is interested as to how he can affect their realisation on the projects he is involved with.

Chris studied at Plymouth University, achieving a 2.1 Degree with Honours, before completing a Masters, gained with Distinction, at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.  His professional Post-Graduate Certificate was obtained at Bath in 2015.

Upon graduating Chris established his own practice, Roots Design Workshop, which provided architectural services for isolated communities in the highlands & islands of Scotland.  Concurrently, Chris conceived, developed and managed the design & build summer school, Tog Studio, which helped community groups deliver small scale projects through short residencies.

During his time in Scotland, Chris worked closely with a number of organisations (Napier Wood School, SUST, Trada, Russwood) that have instilled a lasting interest in sustainable timber design and pre-fabricated construction.

Bruce Clark

Associate

Bruce Clark

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

Bruce is an advocate of learning from the millennia’s worth of building experience that history provides. This is reflected in his work with re-using historic buildings and developing new uses for existing structures and helps resolve clients’ expectations with conservation legislation.

Bruce has worked for both private practice and Local Authority. His experience includes large scale commercial and leisure developments, retail fit-out, schools, churches, police stations, community centres, as well as private housing and community and museum projects that have had Lottery and WRAP funding. He is well versed in resolving various conflicts between the brief, site and legislation with financial reality.

Bruce guides 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 30 years means he understands the issues that arise from combining modern building techniques with old buildings. 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 RIBA Specialist Conservation Architects’ register and the Architects Accredited in Building Conversation (AABC) register. Bruce is also a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association (EASA).