Bridget Snaith CMLI MSc bridget@shape.eu.com
Current Position PhD Studentship, City University Partner, Shape Year of birth 1967 Nationality : British Language: English Qualifications MSc City Design & Social Science, LSE 2006 Grad Dip LA Leeds 1992 BA (Hons) Landscape Design Manchester 1989 Expertise Social Regeneration through Landscape Improvement Strategic Landscape Planning Community Based Landscape Design Design for Play Planning for Movement Public Realm Design
Profile A chartered landscape architect, urban designer , social researcher and educator, primarily designing landscapes, and delivering regeneration programmes for the UK’s public and voluntary sector. Bridget has been director or partner in her own practice since 1996, developing and leading on best practice in UK public landscape design. She was appointed a CABE Space enabler in 2009, for her skills in consultation and play design, advising Sheffield Homes on development of their open space strategy. She led an EU funded study in designing out crime in outdoor space / river corriders for Groundwork in 2006. She established one of the UK’s first Business Improvement Districts in Waterloo, and led their public realm projects from 2001-2007. She became an HLF expert advisor 1998-2001, based on groundbreaking public realm work in Llandudno removing guardrailing and improving pedestrian movement. In 2010, Bridget was awarded a research studentship to investigatie ethnic minority underrepresentation as park users in the UK. Using the Olympic Legacy Park as a case study she has now completed writing up, and is anticipating examination in December 2014. She has taught part time since 1996, in Architecture and Landscape Design and now teaches Social Research methods at City University. She leads on strategic design, regeneration, design and community engagement for Shape Published Research/Writings
‘‘Why the Olympic Park is a successful multi-cultural landscape’’ Landscape Institute News, May 7 2014 http://www. landscapeinstitute.co.uk/news/ethnicpreferences-in-olympic-park
‘‘Designing Out Crime, A Model for Consultation & Engagement, Urban River Corridors’’ EU Quercus including work with Young People Project LB Lewisham, 2006 http:// ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/ Designing Out Crime Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=home. Grant Writing showFile&rep=file&fil=QUERCUS_Toolkit. pdf Spatial practice and culture Programme/Budget Management Selected Project Experience & Skills IT Competencies
Projects can be viewed at www.shape.eu.com
Adobe Creative Suite
All London Green Grid Area 11 Framework, GLA 2010/ 2011
MS Office
Shapes partners produced the Area 11
Framework, a landscape straegy across 85 sqmiles of the River Brent catchment in Brent, Barnet, Harrow, Ealing and Hounslow. Following the partners area survey, Bridget’s role focussed on development & delivery of the overall strategic vision for this area, and ensuring the individual projects identified could deliver the intended goal. Southwark Cleaner Greener Safer 20072015 Small budget housing & streetscape projects (LB Southwark) resident led environmental improvements, to a total contract value of circa £1m with Shape since 2007 . Includes play spaces, community gardens, public art and general environmental improvements all with a high degree of community involvement. Groundwork South East London 2005-07 Bridget managed the delivery of complex multi disciplinary & multi funder physical and economic regeneration programmes ‘Managing the Marshes’, (£1m) alongside circa 90 landscape, employment training & education programmes across three London Boroughs as a consultant, meeting the role of Operations Director as part of Shape’s 18 month appointment in this role for Groundwork SE London. She developed and ran design consultation workshops; devised outreach and inclusion programmes to bring more people into the landscape, built partnerships with business & voluntary sector; engaged diverse groups including young people NEET , and ex offenders from Belmarsh prison, in environment education, employment & training, horticulture, landscape management, and cultural activities; and wrote funding applications to support and connect these separate strands. She produced Design Guidelines, Landscape Character Assessment and Transport and Access study for the biodiverse landscape of Erith, Crayford & Dartford Marshes, for an informed client group including LB Bexley and the GLA. Waterloo BID 2001-07 A pioneer of UK Business Improvement Districts, Bridget established the company now called Waterloo Quarter Business Alliance, from a small voluntary group in Lower Marsh Market, then continued to work for the organisation as a consultant overseeing delivery of a range of physical improvements, commissioning significant urban studies into urban design, retail
and street market management and capacity building exercises as part of the Circle Initiative with SRB funds. She initially devised and managed the overall project programme and provided budget management and reporting under the SRB programme,. Many of the projects she devised and implemented were quick wins, intended to show change was possible, and engender public support for the project as a whole. She then secured and managed substantial further inward investment for the nascent BID. One early ‘Quick Win’ project was Emma Cons Gardens. Emma Cons Gardens 2001-03 Emma Cons Gardens in Waterloo was used by the street population who had a fire burning on the site almost constantly. In 2001 alone the Fire Brigade made 221 trips to put out the fires in the Garden. Working with The Old Vic theatre, and homeless charity St Mungos, Bridget prepared proposals for a ‘quick win’ interim scheme with only £25 k of public funds . There were 3 call outs to fires in the year after this design was implemented. Bridget then led a process (2003-2007) with other community groups to see a permanent scheme completed which would integrate proposals for a new tram and bus interchange on Waterloo Road, and shared surfaces on The Cut and Lower Marsh. Landscape Projects was commissioned to design an enhanced scheme for Emma Cons, to a brief Bridget developed in conjunction with the GLA.