Speakers

Paul is a founding director at Tapestry, a landscape and urban design practice based in London. Dual-qualified as a Chartered Landscape Architect and Urban Designer, he has more than two decades’ experience leading regeneration, masterplanning and public realm projects across London and the UK. He also chairs multiple design review panels, regularly reviewing schemes across London and the Southeast.

Paul’s portfolio spans everything from strategic area frameworks to the detailed design of streets and spaces, working for local authorities, central government and private developers. A significant part of his work now focuses on expert witness testimony in planning inquiries, covering urban design and landscape/townscape and visual impact matters, including CPO-related cases at the Lands Tribunal. He has recently been appointed as deputy chair of the Landscape Institute's Knowledge and Practice Committee.

Paul is the immediate past Chair of the Urban Design Group, standing down in December last year following his second term in the role. He has also spent 15 years as an Expert Advisor on landscape and urban design to the Northern Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group on Architecture and the Built Environment. Paul contributes regularly to professional journals, and is a frequent international conference speaker.