UK Account Director, Schools, Trusts and Local Government Education - Arcadis

Andrew leads our UK offering to Schools, Trusts and Local Government Education clients. He has been supporting Education sector clients with developing and enhancing their estates for 20 years, with experience across Universities, Schools and Diocesan Portfolio Holder Clients as well as Multi Academy Trusts. His primary focus is around delivering large volumes of refurbishment and extension schemes, capital condition projects and strategic property related advice. Andrew has held key roles in supporting the Department for Education, particularly relating to condition strategy and led the Technical mobilisation of the Condition Data Collection Programme.

Dr Steven Norris (BA Hons, MPhil, PhD, MRTPI) is an Executive Director at Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) and national head of the multi-disciplinary Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure (PR+I) business comprising over 150 advisers based out of London and the regional hub offices in Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Chelmsford.

Steve has over 32 years’ experience advising the public and private sectors on the planning, regeneration and transformation of Britain’s towns, high streets and shopping centres.  Examples of the diverse centres and places where Steve and his team have prepared evidence-based visions and regeneration strategies, underpinned by wide-ranging consultation and stakeholder engagement, include: Dartford, Hastings, Hitchin, Basingstoke, Camberley, Winchester, Walsall, Hull, Southampton, Great Yarmouth, Hitchin, Nottingham, Dalston, Ealing, Bexley, Greenwich, Basildon, Rugby, Fareham, Nuneaton and Newmarket. 

Since 2020 Steve and his team have also helped unlock c.£500m of Government-backed funds to kick-start critical regeneration and infrastructure projects in several centres, including Grays, Corby, Stafford and Tilbury.  This has included the delivery of a new 6th Form College in a long-term vacant building in the heart of Corby town centre and the development of a new youth centre in Tilbury.

Steve sits on Revo’s strategic board and was an Expert Adviser to the Government's High Street Task Force for five years up to the dissolution of the programme in 2024.  He is also an active member and supporter of the Association of Town & City Management (ATCM); ACES, New London Architecture (NLA) and Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF).  Steve regularly presents at conferences, seminars and workshops on town centre and high street regeneration, revitalisation and repurposing.

Consultant - TG Escapes

Mark has spent time in marketing with Unilever before moving into advertising as a strategist with Leo Burnett, Creative Director at Starcom and founder of award-winning creative agency Weapon7. He has a passion for sustainable eco-buildings and has been with TG Escapes for 8 years building the brand and helping expand the business into education. Built around a timber frame, these natural buildings enhance well-being and educational outcomes. Mark also runs the social enterprise Street Wisdom, providing free creative workshops around the world.

Head of Planning - Capital Directorate - Department for Education

Mike joined the Department for Education in 2016 after a spell in local government and 10 years in private sector planning consultancy, including as a Director in the Planning and Development Team at Jones Lang LaSalle. Mike leads an in-house team of 14 planning professionals within the Capital Directorate of the DfE, working across Operational and Forward Planning. The team operates on a regional basis across the two main school delivery programmes (Free Schools and PSBP), and alongside the likes of MHCLG and Homes England on a range of strategic planning initiatives to secure allocations, land and/or funding for schools.

Richard O’Connell is an Executive Director at Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) and national operations director for our Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure (PR+I) business comprising over 150 advisers based out of London and the regional hub offices in Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Chelmsford. He is also Head of Office in Chelmsford.

Richard has over 25 years’ experience of working for, or on behalf of public sector clients and has advised several local authorities and other public sector bodies on disposal and estate strategies linked to complex property portfolios.  He has been involved in a number of portfolio transformation programmes in the context of asset rationalisation, repurposing and income generation opportunities. He is the lead Director for several of LSH’s key Public Sector contracts including Essex County Council, Surrey County Council, LB Camden and HS2.

Associate - Barker

Formerly the Director of Estates for one of TTN’s founding Multi-Academy Trusts, Matt has begun a new role with a leading property consultancy, bringing with him over a decade of ‘client-side’ experience in property management and capital project delivery.

With 14 years of first-hand experience working at the forefront of Education Estates management he has worked with staff and colleagues across the Trust sector from the “C-Suite” level to the operational Facility Management teams. In doing so he has developed and established a variety of strategic and tactical approaches to support and enable the effective management and operation of the property portfolio for the schools of the Trust.