Nigel is a Partner and Architect at JTP, with over 20 years of experience in masterplanning, architecture and urban design. His skills lie in an understanding of place; creating sustainable residential-led, mixed-use neighbourhoods with spaces and streets where people can positively lead their lives. Nigel gives particular emphasis to how buildings engage with the public realm and the generous enlivenment of their ground floor levels.
Nigel works across a range of scales and projects, from high-density, brownfield regenerations and mixed-use town centre regeneration with reimagined offers and revitalised public realm, to innovative PBSA designs placing community interaction to the fore.
In his portfolio, Nigel has been Partner in Charge of several notable high-density brownfield regenerations across London, with many in the London Borough of Barnet. Collaborating with Pentland Group, Nigel led the co-design visioning process at Finchley Lakeside, engaging with local residents and potential partners to inform the site’s next chapter. Through guided site walks and hands-on workshops, involving more than 500 people over two co-design days, Nigel built a strong rapport with the local community and a clear understanding of the importance of Pentland Group’s legacy on the site.
Elsewhere in the borough, Nigel led the design and planning application for the Great North Leisure Park regeneration in Finchley with Arada London which recently secured planning consent. The regeneration will transform the car-dominated brownfield site into a high-density, landscape-led neighbourhood of 1,502 homes, alongside a new leisure centre, retail spaces and extensive public realm. Further experience includes the long-term masterplan of North Finchley Town Centre regeneration, with Phase 1 introducing 855 new dwellings, retail, business and residential amenities. Over four years of engagement with the London Borough of Barnet, the North Finchley Partnership Board, local businesses and residents shaped the masterplan vision and proposals.
Currently Nigel is leading the large town centre and estate regeneration of Chrisp Street Market in Poplar, East London – a complex multi-tenure, mixed-use scheme that will breathe new life into this crucial district centre at the heart of London’s historic East End. At its heart is JTP’s bespoke engagement programme, JTP Engages, through which Nigel has overseen engagement with thousands of residents, traders and community groups, embedding their feedback directly into the emerging masterplan.
In his portfolio, Nigel has worked on a range of projects delivering alternative residential models and typologies including a number of PBSA schemes in the borough of Brent including 390-406 High Road and Wembley Greenway, which combined involve over 900 student rooms across high-density buildings up to 22 storeys in height. At Carriages, Bath which has UNESCO world status and heritage context, Nigel secured unanimous planning approval within just 7 months following submission for 275 build-to-rent and 179 shared living homes alongside extensive shared amenities and landscaped spaces.
He also worked on Fulton & Fifth in Wembley, a ‘beds on sheds’ typology delivering 800 mixed tenure homes and ‘big box’ employment space and theGoldsworth Road development with the creation of a new ‘Green Street’ as a focus for circa 1000 new homes.
Nigel also has a particular interest in the communication of design narratives through presentation and drawn storytelling, and he is a strong advocate of JTP’s unique Community Planning processes, opening doors to design for all. He actively enjoys understanding and debating design and is currently a member of a number of Design Review Panels, including Wandsworth and as occasional chair for Hammersmith & Fulham.
