Emma is a Partner at JTP’s London studio with over 12 years of experience designing and delivering projects throughout the UK and overseas. Having worked across a range of residential led, mixed-use schemes ranging from high density urban quarters, new neighbourhoods and strategic sites, Emma focuses on creating happy, healthy places where both people and nature can flourish.
In her role, Emma has completed work on strategic masterplans, including leading the team on an urban extension on the edge of St Neots at Wintringham, creating a new mixed-use neighbourhood of 2,800 homes and extensive community infrastructure, as well as developing the masterplan and Design Code for Key Phase 1 and Key Phase 2. She has also completed work on several sites within Greater Manchester’s draft Places for Everyone joint long-term plan for jobs, new homes, and sustainable growth, developing masterplan frameworks and proposals for new neighbourhoods within destination parklands at Mosley Common and Elton Reservoir. Between these two sites, approximately 4,500 new homes will be delivered supported by local amenities, community facilities and new strategic transport. Throughout the PfE process, Emma and Peel Land collaborated closely with the councils and engaged with local communities to create a shared vision and ensure the emerging proposals meet the local needs and deliver benefits for the wider communities.
Emma is currently working on and leading large regeneration projects including Beckton Gasworks, transforming this redundant gasworks site into a thriving new neighbourhood of 10,000 homes on the River Thames. Emma played a significant role in achieving Outline Planning Consent for an important regeneration site in Osterley in west London. The proposals for Osterley Place respond positively to the existing site context, including strategic planning policy, and aim to improve connectivity and permeability in the area. The proposals include three significant new public spaces which will form an attractive, vibrant new neighbourhood featuring an appealing mix of high-quality new homes, landscaped open space and valuable new amenities serving new and existing residents.
Alongside these projects, Emma also led the design team on Howes Green in Cambridge which was formerly the site of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany with an existing building of local interest located on site. The proposal seeks to create a new community with a new Apart-Hotel alongside 297 Build-to-Rent homes in an ecologically rich, biodiverse landscape which prioritises pedestrian and cycle movement whilst responding to the sensitive existing context.
Emma also contributed to JTP’s work on The Workshed at Liskeard Cattle Market in Cornwall, a creative workspace hub delivering 17 flexible units as Phase 1 of the wider mixed-use regeneration of this prominent town centre site. As part of this project, Emma played a key role in writing and producing the Design and Access Statement, helping to articulate the design vision and demonstrate how the proposals responded to the site’s context, heritage and community aspirations.
Emma is focused on delivering residential led, mixed-use developments which are underpinned by healthy placemaking focusing on people and communities, to design places that work better for everyone. As part of JTP’s Health and Wellbeing Sustainability Working Group, she is striving to deliver places that maximise health and wellbeing opportunities for all.
Emma is passionate about inclusive community engagement and co-design, both in person and online, and has played a key role in launching new initiatives with the JTP Engages team. She is committed to creating engagement processes that are accessible, transparent and genuinely influential, ensuring that a wide range of voices are heard and meaningfully shape project outcomes.
