Chaired by Leo Hammond.
David Mikhail Mikhail Riches
David is one of our Founding Directors and has been responsible for Goldsmith Street for Norwich City Council, the Housing Delivery Programme for City of York Council and Owlstone Croft Graduate Homes for Queens’ College Cambridge.
Before forming Mikhail Riches in 2014, David had already built a reputation building exemplary one-off homes with his practice David Mikhail Architects, (Hoxton House, East London House, Richmond House) whilst with sister practice Riches Hawley Mikhail, he was able to deliver innovative housing projects (Clay Fields, Brentford Lock West).
Mikhail Riches started life by developing a slice of unpromising land at Church Walk Hackney, which went on to become the RIBA London Building of the Year 2013. With Mikhail Riches, David is now realising his ambition of working with a team of talented practitioners to deliver environmentally and socially engaged places around the UK.
David is interested in biodiversity and UK woodlands, currently building his own Passivhaus home using sweet chestnut coppiced from a local woodland in Kent.
Stephen Hill C2O Future Planners
Stephen is a planning and development surveyor and land economist. He has worked in every housebuilding sector: local authority, commercial developer, housing association, government agency, and community-led housing, working at site, neighbourhood and new settlement scales. He has represented the RICS in many situations including the Housing Design Awards judging panel, and the board of the Housing Forum. He has been course tutor and design studio master on neighbourhood and city scale design at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Kaye Stout Pollard Thomas Edwards
Kaye Stout, who joined PTE in 2003, is a managing partner and leads one of PTE’s three design workshops.
Kaye has delivered a series of successful and award-winning projects from concept to completion. She specialises in large scale regeneration and masterplanning projects, as well urban and village extensions and new settlements throughout the south of England.
Kaye has been a member of the RIBA Advisory Group, sat on the RIBA Housing Panel and was a Board Member for The Housing Forum. She is Co-chair of the Brent Quality Review and is a member of the NHBC Council and sits on the NHBC Appointments Committee. In 2022 she was the chair of judges for the RIBA Neave Brown Award.
Leo Hammond (Chair) UDG and Haringey Council
An Urban Designer with 25 years' professional experience across Urban Design, Planning, Architecture and Public Realm Design in the private and public sector. He works as an Urban Design and Regeneration Manager at Haringey Council and a visiting Tutor at UCL, where he teaches on the Urban Design MA.
Leo is on the Executive Committee of the Urban Design Group (UDG), as well as being the past Chair, and is on the Editorial Committee of the Urban Design Journal. He is also a member of the Design South East and the Greater Cambridge Design Review Panels.
Leo’s family live in Lewes, and he has been visiting for over 30 years.