The Quality Review Panel, which now has 32 members, supports the work of the Legacy Corporation’s Planning Policy and Decisions Team by testing the fundamental design principles of planning proposals both at pre-application stage and as part of the application process. 

The new panel members are:

• Jane Briginshaw, Jane Briginshaw Associates
• Kate Digney, Levitt Bernstein
• Jayne Earnscliffe,  Earnscliffe, Making Access Work
• Fergus Feilden, Feilden Fowles 
• Keith French, Grant Associates
• Simon Henley, Henley Halebrown 

Peter Studdert, chair of the Quality Review Panel, said: 

‘Development is forging ahead in and around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Inspiring plans are taking shape for Hackney Wick and Fish Island, Pudding Mill and Bromley by Bow, as well as a new cultural and education district that will bring world class institutions to the park. Now with additional expertise, the Quality Review Panel will continue to help the Legacy Corporation create well designed places that both benefit and delight all those who use them.’

For more information contact the Press Office at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on +44 (0) 20 3734 9010 or email press@QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk 

June 2017

New Quality Review Panel members appointed:

Jane Briginshaw 

Jane Briginshaw Associates

Jane Briginshaw brings skills of strategic thinking, leadership, communication and campaigning. After an early career as a practising architect and lecturer in architecture, her achievements include five years advising schools ministers at the Department for Children, Schools and Families on the Building Schools for the Future programme; and six years leading the design and sustainability strategy, as well as research, for the government Homes and Communities Agency. 

Jane Briginshaw is a consultant to local authorities and housing associations, promoting quality and sustainability in planning, housing and schools. She specialises in design policy development and building standards in government departments and agencies. She is co-chair of Design South East’s design review panel.

Kate Digney

Levitt Bernstein

Kate Digney joined Levitt Bernstein in 2013, bringing extensive experience of landscape led placemaking. She has led the practice’s landscape studio since 2015 – including work on public park design, residential landscape design and public realm guidance. Her portfolio includes both urban and brownfield contexts and also sensitive rural and historic landscapes. She is passionate about promoting high quality landscape design that is inclusive, creative, robust and enduring. 

A degree in Landscape Design and Ecology from the University of Sheffield prompted a particular interest in how designing for biodiversity, strengthening urban tree communities and integrating sustainable urban drainage can add quality and distinctiveness to new and existing neighbourhoods. 

Kate Digney has been a member of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham’s design review panel since 2016. 

Jayne Earnscliffe

Earnscliffe, Making Access Work

Jayne Earnscliffe has contributed to the success of many high profile arts, heritage, public realm and housing projects. These include the award winning Tumbling Bay Playground in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and London Symphony Orchestra St Luke’s, and also the RIBA Stirling Prize winning Everyman Theatre, lauded for its ‘unparalleled levels of accessibility’. Other projects include V&A Futureplan; Stonehenge Visitor Centre; and Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Jayne Earnscliffe has extensive experience of masterplanning, and is currently working on several major residential developments in London, including Chelsea Barracks. 

In her capacity as assessor / monitor, policy planner and author of access guidelines for Arts Council England, Jayne Earnscliffe helped embed high standards of accessibility throughout its portfolio of capital projects. 

Jayne Earnscliffe’s approach places people at the heart of the design process. She works with architects and designers to achieve creative solutions that reflect the diverse needs of an ageing population and is particularly interested in design for dementia.

Fergus Feilden

Feilden Fowles 

Fergus Feilden founded Feilden Fowles with Edmund Fowles in 2010. Among the practice’s many accolades are RIBA, Civic Trust and AIA awards, and being named Young Architect of the Year 2016 by Building Design.

Clients include the National Trust, The Hepworth Wakefield and Transport for London. Recent commissions include a new gallery and visitor centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the first new building at Carlisle Cathedral for over 300 years. In 2017 the practice won a competition to design a £7 million dining hall for Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Fergus Feilden has been a visiting critic and lectured at the University of Bath, The Cass, and the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the South Downs National Park design review panel. Before establishing Feilden Fowles, he worked for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, specialising in school design, and for Howarth Tompkins on a number of theatres.

Feilden Fowles recently collaborated on the design, fundraising and development of Waterloo City Farm, also the location of the practice’s RIBA award winning self build studio.

Keith French

Grant Associates

Keith French is a director of Grant Associates which he joined in 1997. At the heart of the practice’s approach is the relationship between people and nature. He has contributed to many of Grant Associates’ landscape and urban design projects and has a particular interest in combining innovation and creative ecology in landscape architecture. He has been involved in a range of scales of development from strategic landscape planning of National Parks, to landscape framework planning of new towns and green infrastructure strategies through to the design of particular landscape and public realm spaces in cities and towns.

Keith French played a key role in the £500m Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore. Opened in 2012, the project explores the technical boundaries of landscape and horticulture in a dense Asian city. More recent work includes urban regeneration mixed use schemes throughout the UK and overseas, as well as major university projects, residential schemes, transport infrastructure, new city parks and public realm strategies in Bristol, Sheffield, Singapore and London. 

Simon Henley

Henley Halebrown

Simon Henley is a founding director of Henley Halebrown (formerly Buschow Henley), an award winning practice with a reputation for imaginative architecture in estate regeneration, residential, health, workspace, education and the arts, creating unique buildings in challenging urban sites. The practice has won RIBA awards for apartments in Shepherdess Walk; Talkback offices and TV studios; St Benedict’s School; and the Ackerman Health Centre, all in London; and Junction Arts and Civic Centre in Goole. 

Simon Henley combines practice with teaching, writing and research, and is the author of The Architecture of Parking, which won the RIBA International Book Award for Construction in 2008, and Redefining Brutalism.  

He teaches at Kingston University and writes the Beyond London column for ArchDaily. He is also an external examiner at the Kent School of Architecture; an Academy of Urbanism Academician; a member of Design South East’s design review panel; and a consultant for the GLA Specialist Assistance Team. Until 2011, he was a member of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment schools design panel and the NHS design review panel.