Joanna is a Partner at JTP, with wide-ranging experience of urban regeneration, masterplanning and residential design. She is responsible for JTP’s international portfolio of projects and has worked across Europe, Russia, the Middle East and China.
In the UK, Joanna is leading teams working on a range of large-scale masterplanning projects throughout the UK. She has experience of leading collaborative masterplanning and community engagement processes working with local communities and key stakeholders. She has extensive experience of Design Coding as well as leading detailed architectural projects for housing associations and other housing developers.
Joanna is currently working on a number of strategic masterplanning projects including Chelmsford Garden Community in Essex. Designed in partnership with Chelmsford City Council, Essex County Council and Homes England, the new Garden Community will be delivered over the next 25 years paving the way for 6,250 new homes and 60,000 sqm of employment space. JTP’s Vision has been developed through a process of extensive consultation and collaboration with the overarching Development Framework Document endorsed in 2023.
Elsewhere Joanna was Project Partner for the award-winning Calderdale Placemaking and Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), which involved working with the full breadth of the community and stakeholders, including a focused Community Review Panel. The JTP Engagement process won the Planning Award 2024 for best Stakeholder Engagement in Planning. Joanna is therefore well-versed in working with councils and local authority partners to deliver project that authentically reflect local aspirations and community priorities.
Joanna is also leading the strategic masterplan for Wychavon Town in Worcestershire and Calderdale Garden Communities in West Yorkshire. At Calderdale Garden Communities, Joanna is delivering the Vision for multiple sites through collaborative workshops with council officers and members, leading to the development of updated masterplans. Both individual masterplan and Design Code SPDs were adopted following this period of statutory public consultation.
In her international portfolio, Joanna is part of the team developing a mixed-use village near Prague in the Czech Republic. In China, where Joanna has specialised in regional and city regeneration projects, JTP has undertaken over 40 large-scale masterplanning and regeneration projects, from Dalian in the north, to Hainan in the south. In the United Arab Emirates, Joanna led the masterplanning of Shahama and Bahia. The project was driven by bioclimatic design principles and was the first time that a Participatory Planning Process was undertaken in the UAE – where local residents were invited to participate in the regeneration of their neighbourhood.
Joanna is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, an organisation which promotes the cause of good quality urbanism throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Joanna is passionate about the importance of placemaking and how the design of good places impacts positively on health and wellbeing. She believes strongly that the best places are created through collaborative processes and therefore ensures that JTP’s Charrette Methodology is embedded in every project, often including extensive participation of local communities and stakeholders.
