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As part of a programme that has assigned ten architects from the Mayor’s Design Advocate panel to locations experiencing rapid change across London, the Mayor of London has appointed 5th Studio Director Tom Holbrook to the role of Town Architect for the London Borough of Hounslow.

Funded by the Greater London Authority, The Mayor of London's two-year pilot scheme is part of the £1.25m Local Growth Capacity Support Programme, to embed expert design support in ten locations to deliver Good Growth for Londoners.

The new role of the Town Architect is intended to provide a ‘constructive and critical view across multiple projects’ within their identified area, offering ‘oversight and coherence across schemes’. The 10 Town Architects will build capacity in local boroughs, promote knowledge-sharing and bolster skills in existing teams, and help authorities to utilise the skills of planners and architects to help shape better places in their local areas.

Tom will be working with the borough to join up the significant transformation anticipated and underway in Brentford, and to optimise the benefit of the West London Orbital – a planned expansion of the Overground network, running from Hounslow to Hendon, Brent Cross & West Hampstead, delivering a missing orbital link between North and West London.

Tom said “it is really exciting to be appointed as a Town Architect, and I look forward to working with Hounslow’s excellent planning and regeneration teams. The work builds on 5th Studio’s significant work on optimising the spatial integration of rail infrastructure, including at Stratford Station, on the Cowley Branch Line in Oxford, and on East West Rail.”

London deputy mayor Jules Pipe, said: ‘By drawing on the expertise of the Mayor’s design advocates, local boroughs will have the expertise and support they need to boost design quality to improve their high streets and public spaces and promote positive neighbourhood placemaking, helping to build a better and more sustainable London for everyone.’

The GLA pilot includes nine other Town Architects in strategic locations across the capital: Holly Lewis, Jas Bhalla, Adam Khan, Ken Okonkwo, Hilary Satchwell, Farshid Moussavi Architecture, Paul Monaghan, Julian lewis and Alice Fung.

Read more in the Architects’ Journal.

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