Julie is an Associate and Urban Designer at JTP with extensive experience, playing a key role in shaping the early vision, promotion and placemaking of urban extensions and garden communities. She has worked across a diverse range of projects, from smaller sites to large, complex mixed-use masterplans, guiding schemes from initial concept and visioning through to the preparation of Outline Planning Applications. She has significant expertise in preparing Vision Statements, Framework Documents and Design and Access Statements to support the planning process.
At JTP, Julie has played a key role in shaping a wide range of significant projects, bringing a strong focus on placemaking, landscape-led design and collaborative working. Her experience includes a sustainable urban extension to Ware, Hertfordshire, promoted through the Local Plan process and guided by a Masterplan Framework for a residential-led, mixed-use community of up to 1,500 homes. The proposals were shaped through extensive community engagement, including a well-attended Community Planning Event with over 700 local participants, and were approved by East Herts Council in 2019.
Julie has also worked on the Hybrid Planning Application for Abbey Barn Park in High Wycombe, delivering a new community of 550 homes carefully integrated within an established landscape framework. The proposals celebrate and enhance key landscape features, including the historic lime tree avenue known as The Ride, alongside new parkland and greenways that support both community life and wildlife connectivity.
In Julie’s garden communities portfolio, she led the early visioning and placemaking stages for Meecebrook Garden Community, preparing a Vision and Development Charter for Stafford Borough Council. This work involved facilitating site visits and stakeholder workshops to help shape a shared and ambitious vision for a new garden community. Julie has been closely involved in the long-term development of Chelmsford Garden Community, a major new settlement of 5,500 homes structured around four distinctive villages set within a strong landscape framework. She contributed to the workshops and charrettes that informed the Development Framework Document, approved in March 2023, and supported the preparation of the first outline planning application for 1,500 homes.
Her experience also includes Milton Keynes East, where she has worked from early site promotion through to the outline planning application for a mixed-use neighbourhood of 4,000 homes. The proposals build on the qualities that define Milton Keynes, with extensive green infrastructure structured by a landscape lattice and a linear park along the River Ouzel. Julie contributed to both the site-wide Design Code Framework and the Detailed Design Code as the first residential phases progressed.
Julie brings a strong passion for landscape and wildlife conservation to JTP’s projects. She is committed to identifying opportunities to integrate Nature Recovery Networks and Living Landscapes into JTP’s masterplanning approach, working collaboratively with organisations such as the Wildlife Trust. Julie is also a qualified Building with Nature Approved Assessor.
Drawing on her expertise, Julie undertakes evidence-led assessments that help ensure projects deliver on JTP’s ambition to create places that are demonstrably enriching to their setting, support nature’s recovery, and bring people closer to the natural environment.
