I have expertise across heritage, conservation, townscape and listed building retrofit.  I chose to move from commercial heritage consultancy to the public sector in 2023 and have been at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for the last two years.  My work is driven by a pragmatic and technically informed approach to heritage, restoration and practical building conservation, and how this combines with the need to adapt places for sustainability, regeneration and continued use. 

I have worked across London and in other major UK cities and towns, providing heritage and townscape advice for residential schemes (including affordable and social housing), commercial office, retail, religious institutions, hospitals, museums, clubs, renewable energy schemes and sites of large mixed-use development / regeneration.  I have a continuing and developing expertise in museums and cultural heritage, having worked in public facing roles in this sector for many years between leaving school and completing university studies, and now in the management of RBKC’s listed building and development relationship with the Natural History Museum. 

At RBKC my work focuses on historic fabric and building adaptation, including sustainability and retrofit, alongside providing advice and appraising new development with tall buildings and townscape effects.  I have led on RBKC’s Built Heritage response to the new Earls Court Development Corporation proposals for the former exhibition centre. 

Previous commercial experience of townscape and application of the LVMF to sensitive sites has included the redevelopment of 1 Museum Street for Simten and BC Partners with DSDHA. A site redevelopment which dealt with a late statutory listing of a block of James Pennethorne terraces, along with the re-development of the former Travelodge and neighbouring vacant site.  I also led the heritage and townscape process for ‘The Mark’ at 47-50 Mark Lane, designed by 3XN,  a sensitive redevelopment in the City of London with the highest environmental standards, all in the close context of the Tower of London world heritage site and All Hallows by the Tower (Grade I). The building is also one of the main backdrop buildings of the Tower in LVMF River Prospect 10A Tower Bridge, a key location for tourists to take photographs of the Tower and to experience the juxtaposition of the City’s eastern cluster and the WHS.

I am qualified in energy efficiency measures for older and traditional buildings and put CPD in building conservation into practice in my own house in west Wales, which my husband and I are (gradually) restoring.