Design Review Panel

DRP members do not make planning decisions. They provide supplementary expert advice. This adds to the internal design advice from council officers.

• Terms of Reference and Membership
• Guidance on presenting to a Design Review Panel

Schemes usually reviewed by the panel

The type of schemes that may be referred to the DRP include:

• Major or strategic planning applications. (Typically above 10 residential units).
• Proposals that may significantly affect urban design in Harrow.
• Proposals which have special significance or interest to a local area.
• Policies and initiatives with urban design implications.
• Site-specific master plans, design codes and design guidance.

Review types

We operate three types of review. These are for private developments:

• Full Panel Review (Panel composed of one chair and three members).
• Chair’s Review (Panel composed of one chair and one member).
• Desktop Review (Panel composed of one chair).

Review fees

From 1st April 2023, DRP fees are:

• Full Panel Review: £5,650.00 (Reduced to £4,237.00 for a follow-up Full Panel Review.)
• Chair's Review: £2,119.00.
• Desktop Review: £1,471.00.

Panel chairs

Richard Cottrell

Richard Cottrell is a co-founder and director of Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture. They focus on the education and community sectors. They have won awards, including the BD Architect of the Year Gold Award 2016 and the BD Education Architect of the Year 2018.

Richard has delivered several award-winning projects. These include Westborough Primary School, a zero-carbon exemplar, and the Royal London Hospital Children's Play Space.

He has lectured widely on education and liturgical spaces. He sits on Southwark and Lewisham design review panels.

Katy Marks

Katy Marks is an architect. She is the Director of Citizens Design Bureau. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Cambridge University. She has an MPhil in Environmental Design.

Katy was at Haworth Tompkins Architects. There, she worked on the Stirling Prize-winning Everyman Theatre, the Young Vic, and the National Theatre Studios. In 2013, she founded Citizens Design Bureau. 

Neil Deely

Neil is Co-Founder and Partner of Metropolitan Workshop LLP. It is an architecture and urbanism practice, founded in 2004, with studios in London and Dublin.

He is an expert in designing complex residential, LED, mixed-use projects, master planning, and major public projects. He leads design talks that are open and collaborative. He has a deep interest in the relationship between people and place.

Panel members and their associated organisations

• Benni Allan: Director, EBBA Architects
• Pooja Asher: Director, Aranya Consulting
• Fran Balaam: Director, Balaam Murphy
• Tom Bell: Director, Freehaus
• Dinah Bornat: Director, ZCD Architects
• Noel Cash: Associate Director, Henley Halebrown
• Emma Elston: Senior Architect, Be First
• Chris Fellner: Director, Haworth Tompkins
• Mandy Franz: Associate Director, MICA Architects
• Michael Gollings: Director, Gollings Architects
• William Haggard: Director, CarverHaggard
• Takeshi Hayatsu: Director, Hayatsu Architects
• Satish Jassal: Director, Satish Jassal Architects
• Amandeep Kalra: Associate Architect, Be First
• Anna Kiho: Architect, HLM
• Chloë Leen: Director, Pup Architects
• Julian Lewis: Director, East
• Judith Loësing: Director, East 
• Euan Macdonald: Partner, Hawkins\Brown
• Miranda MacLaren: Director, Morris + Compan
• Fabrizio Matillana: Principal Urban Design Officer, LB Islington
• Cristina Monteiro: Director, DK-CM
• Gareth Morris: Director, what:if projects
• Vinesh Pomal: Project Architect, TateHindle
• Amir Ramezani: Director, Avanti Architects
• Sarah Beth Riley: Associate Architect, Be First
• Seth Rutt: Founding Director, Studio Multi
• Gurmeet Sian: Director, Office Sian
• Tszwai So: Director, Spheron Architects
• Emma Twine: Associate, DK-CM