Brian - Jean - Don - Leslie
BRIAN WATERS MA DipArch (Cantab) DipTP RIBA MRTPI
BRIAN WATERS is principal of architects and planning consultants The Boisot Waters Cohen Partnership, founded in 1972.
He is chairman of the London Planning & Development Forum and joint publishing editor of Planning in London, (see Links) its journal, a director of Land Research Unit Ltd which publishes the journal and a partner in Studio & Gallery Crown Reach.
A chartered architect, he studied at Cambridge University; a chartered town planner, he studied at the Polytechnic of Central London. He went to the City of London School, is a Freeman of the City of London and a founder member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, where he was elected Upper Warden in 2001. As a graduate he worked for the City of London Corporation, as a housing architect at the GLC and with Shankland/Cox where he was team leader for the Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Plan.
He has served on policy groups on transport and London regional policy under Peter Walker and John Boyd-Carpenter. He has written for most of the professional journals and has received four commendations as Architectural Journalist of the Year for his articles in Building, AJ and RIBAJ. He has contributed a chapter in the new book on Sir Norman FosterÕs Tokyo Tower and presently writes a monthly planning guidance column for the ArchitectsÕ Journal. He has tutored at PCL and Cambridge and lectured at the AA, PNL and Welsh Schools of Architecture, presented a paper to the 1997 ACA annual conference and has contributed to the 1998 induction course for civil servants on planning at the DETR.
He is a past president of the Cities of London & Westminster Society of Architects and was elected to the RIBA Council in 1987. He was elected RIBA Vice-President, Marketing and chairman of the Marketing Committee 1988-90 and again for 1991-2. He chaired the National Architecture Conference held in London in May 1991.
He was appointed chairman of the London Planning & Development Forum in July 1990; the forum comprises representatives of central and local Government including DoE, DoT, English Heritage, RIBA, RICS, RTPI, London borough chief planning officers, the CBI and the London Planning Advisory Committee and generally meets at the Government Office for London, LPAC or the CBI.
He is a founder member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects nd was appointed Renter Warden for 2000/2001. In 1997 He was elected a member of the council of the Association of Consultant Architects and was re-elected in 2000.
He is a member of the RAC and Hurlingham Clubs. His recreations include dressage, tennis, Siberian huskies, painting, throwing (pots) and growing fruit, lavender and vines in Catalu–a. In 1997 he was elected a member of the Society of Architect Artists and exhibited with them in December 1997 and in March 1998 at the RIBA.
EUGENIA DEMETRIOU Dip Arch.(PNL) is a registered architect who joined BWCP in 1980 having extensive experience of running housing refurbishment contracts for consultant architects to several London Boroughs.
At BWCP she has been responsible for industrial developments including the workshops in the award winning Leytonstone High Road scheme for the borough of Waltham Forest and acquired by L.E.T. & 6.5 acre Riverside Industrial Park in Ipswich. She was appointed associate of BWCP in 1984 and project director in 1989 since when she has been responsible for development feasibility studies, design and consequent planning applications for a number of industrial sites in Lancashire for Wassal plc; and for numerous residential, retail, office and hotel developments in London. Currently she is involved in the masterplanning of a 75 acre educational /residential site in South Oxfordshire and a commercial site in Lincoln.
DONALD NEEDHAM BSc(Hons) Dip Arch (Lond) RIBA is a chartered architect who first worked with BWCP in 1980 and later rejoined the practice in 1987, and was appointed project director in 1989.
Prior to joining the practice he had extensive experience in public sector housing, university and welfare projects. He worked on an office relocation programme for British Telecom, in the process preparing a property maintenance manual for their estates department. He was project architect at ORMS for the RIBA Award winning headquarters building for Next plc.
At BWCP, experience has varied from working on a major teaching hospital in the Caribbean, preparing inner city shopping centre proposals, the first purpose built Aparthotel in the UK, a major hotel proposal in central London, to office developments in outer London.
Recent work has an emphasis on projects that require unusual planning consents. The practice has pioneered the Ôlive-workÕ concept in the re-use of redundant office or industrial buildings in central London and Class E Ôflexible useÕ planning permissions for schemes where future use may need to change with market conditions.
Currently he is involved in preparing the masterplan for a girlsÕ school sports campus in North London and residential schemes in Spain.
LESLIE ROBINSON entered private practice with BWCP in 1973 after seven years in Local Government as a planner with the London Borough of Southwark. He became an Associate of BWCP in 1978.
He was elected a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1979 and gained a Diploma in Management Studies in 1982. In the course of his career, he has dealt with all aspects of the town planning process from Comprehensive Redevelopment, to Development Plan Preparation as well as Development Control. He has presented numerous Appeal cases by written representations and hearings, and has appeared at Public Inquiries. He has worked for a wide range of clients including: the following:
Public sector: Department of the Environment (consultancy on Inner City Policy); Countryside Commission (development of the Urban Fringe initiative "Operation Groundwork") and the Scottish Development Agency (Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal).
Private Sector: Wassal plc (feasibility studies - residential redevelopment of industrial premises in Lancashire) Fairbriar Homes plc (residential development sites in Sussex, Surrey and Kent) Serco plc (extension to B1 development in Camberley, Surrey) Hart and Co. - establishment of estate agency chain in retail areas, NW London J. Ladwa Ltd - rest homes/nursing homes in NW London Bowden Freight International - depot in Gotham, Notts. emap plc - temporary exhibition site, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, Sugar Reef Restaurant, London WC1 - removal of condition on planning permission, Educational/Charity/Voluntary Central Foundation Schools - redevelopment of educational premises, Islington. University College School - sports centre. Carmel College - residential development on campus in AONB. South Hampstead High School - swimming pool and tennis complex, West Hampstead.Knightsbridge Association - objections to Local Plans for City of Westminster and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Transport
SUSTRANS - feasibility work, National Cycle Network in Sussex and Kent Surveys 1988 - he managed the survey of pedestrians using Hove Seafront which was given as evidence to the Home Office and DoT in connection with the proposed cycle route along the Promenade. 1993-4 Working with Richard Jones he helped with cordon surveys of cyclists in Horsham and Chichester as part of area studies for the respective District Councils and West Sussex County Council. 1996 as a Cycle Challenge project for DoT he designed and analysed the user questionnaires for tests of carriage of cycles on externally mounted racks on service buses 1997/8 for Sustrans and West Sussex County Council he designed and managed the analysis of actual and potential cyclists in East Grinstead as part of the Local Transport Plan. 1999 for West Sussex County Council, Mid Sussex District Council, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Sustrans he designed and analysed a survey of cyclist views taking part in an organised cycling event at Wakehurst Place, Haywards Heath. 1999 for East Sussex County Council, Eastbourne Borough Council, Sustrans, Brighton Hove and East Sussex Health Promotion Authority and Eastbourne Association of Voluntary Services he designed and analysed a survey of cyclist views taking part in an organised cycling event at The Sovereign Centre Eastbourne.
