The Design Review Panel

17/10/2026

The real thing, from a worked example: a Self-Assessment Certificate, the full Project Pack, and the free indicative preview — exactly what the tool produces.

17/10/2026

Thank you to Andy Robbins for chairing an in-person design review panel session for a scheme near North Walsham, Norfolk for The Design Review Panel.

Thank you to our volunteer panel members Charlotte Riggs, Glenn Cavill and Kevin Driver for taking part.

Thank you to Studio Bark and Studio 31 for inviting the Panel to provide an independent and impartial review.

In-person sessions, as well as online video-conferencing design review panel sessions (with or without site visits), are available for projects anywhere across the UK and can be booked via our website designreviewpanel.co.uk, by email [email protected], or by calling 01395 265768.

09/10/2026

09/10/2026

I was delighted to chair an online design review panel session for a major scheme near Shrewsbury, Shropshire for The Design Review Panel.

Thank you to our volunteer panel members Jonathan Vernon Smith, Rob Holloway, Philip Hanson and Charlotte Lewis for taking part, and to Focus on Design for inviting the Panel to provide an independent and impartial review.

In-person sessions, as well as online video-conferencing design review panel sessions (with or without site visits), are available for projects anywhere across the UK and can be booked via our website designreviewpanel.co.uk, by email [email protected], or by calling 01395 265768.

05/10/2026

Hearth House is one of the first homes in England approved under the new NPPF Policy HO11 — granted just 15 days after the policy took effect following three design reviews. Read the full story on the design journey, the review process, and what this approval means for isolated home development. https://wix.to/cUOqQOW

02/10/2026

Know where your scheme stands with the Building for a Healthy Life self-assessment tool. BHL Assessments brings your answers, reasoning and evidence into one online self-assessment, with a full indicative preview free of charge. Read the full post and try the tool: https://wix.to/aoCBQDP

30/09/2026

An absolute pleasure to help with tutoring in the Diploma in Architecture: Professional Practice (part 3 course) at the Welsh School of Architecture Welsh School Of Architecture today. Many thanks to Sarah Lupton & Manos Stellakis for inviting me.

25/09/2026

Thank you to Andy Robbins for chairing an in-person design review panel session for a scheme in Maryport, Cumbria for The Design Review Panel.

Thank you to our volunteer panel members Kim Gray, Ollie Currie and Kevin Brown for taking part.

Thank you to Andrew Hunter, Mike Joffe and Rob Hughes for inviting the Panel to provide an independent and impartial review.

In-person sessions, as well as online video-conferencing design review panel sessions (with or without site visits), are available for projects anywhere across the UK and can be booked via our website designreviewpanel.co.uk, by email [email protected], or by calling 01395 265768.

22/09/2026

I was delighted to chair an online design review panel session for a scheme in , for The Design Review Panel.

Thank you to our volunteer Panel members Wing Lai, Bill Soper, James Williams and Emily Pallot for taking part.

Thank you to Urbanist Architecture for inviting the Panel to provide an independent and impartial review.

In-person sessions, as well as online video-conferencing design review panel sessions (with or without site visits), are available for projects anywhere across the UK and can be booked via our website designreviewpanel.co.uk, by email [email protected], or by calling 01395 265768.