People & Experience

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At Lucid we are defined by our diverse team of creative designers. We are a collective of urbanists and landscape architects who each bring unique perspectives and skills from backgrounds in ecology, geography, planning, architecture & engineering.

We work together, beyond the traditional design discipline boundaries, to unlock new solutions to the challenges faced by our clients and the communities where we work.

Our Team

  • Company Director

    Andrew is a chartered Landscape Architect with over 20 years professional experience.  Naturally collaborative, he enjoys working with other disciplines to shape projects from an early stage, embedding principles to create environments which are inclusive, sustainable and encourage a positive relationship between people and nature.

    His involvement continues through the design stages to ensure that early vision is realised through to the completed scheme.

    Andrew's project experience spans the country across a range of different sectors (from high-density urban living to leisure and events destinations), but his main focus is urban regeneration, bringing brownfield sites back to life, rejuvenating communities and enabling development which responds to its physical and social context. His recent experience includes FEC’s 4,800 home Red Bank development, Downing’s 2000-bed co-living scheme at First Street and Queen Street Urban Park for Aberdeen City Council.

    After studying for a BSc in Landscape and Ecology followed by a Diploma in Landscape Architecture, both at the University of Sheffield, Andrew worked for Landscape Architecture practices in London and Sydney in his early career. He later relocated to Manchester where he has been based for almost 20 years.  A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute since 2006, Andrew is also a qualified Building with Nature Assessor.  

    You can view his LinkedIn profile here

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  • Senior Landscape Architect

    Ashleigh is a Chartered Landscape Architect who uses the power of storytelling to shape landscapes that are meaningful, resilient, and rooted in place. She specialises in creating high quality public realm that balances human experience with ecological sustainability, drawing on the unique heritage, climate, and community identity of each site.

    After completing both her BSc in Landscape and Ecology and her Masters in Landscape Architecture (MLA) at the University of Sheffield, she joined LDA Design, where over five years she played a key role in delivering some of the most ambitious regeneration projects across the North of England.

    Her experience spans urban placemaking, public realm design, and landscape led regeneration. She believes that great design is a journey that brings clients, stakeholders, and communities into the process at every stage. As a project develops, she weaves history, context, and character into the built environment through materiality, colour, pattern, and interpretation, creating places with a strong sense of identity.

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  • Landscape Designer

    Evie achieved her Masters of Landscape Architecture First Class with Distinction, from the Manchester School of Architecture, in 2022. Prior to this, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography from Manchester Metropolitan University.

    She is passionate about regeneration and creating climate-resilient places through sensitive environmental and social considerations which are mutually beneficial for communities and wildlife.  She is particularly inspired by post-industrial landscapes that nature has reclaimed, creating designs celebrating history and resilience for the future, whilst developing spaces people want to use.

    Evie works across the design stages, on primarily urban regeneration projects for both public and private sector clients. She helps develop and effectively visualise early concept designs, through to supporting detailed planning applications and preparing tender stage information. 

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  • Company Director

    An experienced, creative designer, Jaimie regularly leads multi-disciplinary teams for public and private sector clients, to shape and deliver major development. His experience covers mixed-use environments (e.g. Ancoats, Manchester), town centres (Stockport Town Centre West), brownfield regeneration (Birkenhead 2040), planning for new homes (South Warrington urban extension) and design of innovative public spaces (Dock Branch Park, Birkenhead and transformation of Bootle Strand).

    Jaimie studied Structural Engineering with Architecture at the University of Manchester, before quickly specialising in Urban Design, completing an MA at the University of Westminster. He started his career working with some of the leading proponents of Urban Design at Alan Baxter & Associates and EDAW (now AECOM), where he was ultimately made a Director.  He then moved on to take a similar role with BDP before becoming the national Head of Design at Turley. His most recent role was founding and leading the Manchester studio as a Director of OPEN (now SLR).

    A long standing Urban Design Group ‘Recognised Practitioner’ and Academician with the Academy of Urbanism, he sits on the PlacesMatter! design review panel and is a co-founder of Common Good, a movement pushing for positive change in northern towns and cities.

    You can view his LinkedIn profile here

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  • Urban Design Assistant

    Jana joined us following completion of her MSc in Urban Design and International Planning at The University of Manchester for which she received a Distinction.

    Originally from Germany she studied at University of the West of England in Bristol securing a First in her BSc in Urban Planning. She has also previously worked as a Planning Assistant at Copperfield Ltd.

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  • Urban Designer & Architect

    Luke is an Urban Designer, qualified Architect and Recognised Practitioner with the Urban Design Group. He has worked on projects across a broad range of sectors and scales through the various stages of design and delivery.

    He studied Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture and previously worked in the Urbanism team at BDP.

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  • Company Director

    Mark is a creative and practical designer with significant experience across a variety of UK and international projects. A collaborative and passionate urbanist, he enjoys crafting design responses that are context-driven and deliver lasting, inclusive, and sustainable change

    His track record varies in scale, and context, working closely with a diverse range of clients in both the private and public sector. He often leads multi-disciplinary teams to shape and deliver development across a variety of projects, including sustainable urban extensions, garden communities, new residential development, neighbourhood regeneration, mixed-use brownfield development, estate renewal, detailed urban design, and public realm strategies. He is experienced working across different spatial scales and often leads projects from their initial conception through to detailed design. He enjoys working on technically complex sites, where his design approach brings creativity to unlocking delivery and regeneration challenges, ultimately helping to secure positive change.  

    A natural collaborator he enjoys working with stakeholders and communities to guide and drive positive, sustainable change through vision-led placemaking.  He has a strong track record in project leadership and direction while also bringing creativity, technical knowledge and design solutions to projects. Some of his most significant work in Birkenhead, Stockport, Barrow-in-Furness and Greater Manchester has helped to secure significant opportunities for regeneration.  

    Having gained a MSc with Distinction in Urban Design at Queen’s University, Belfast, Mark went on to work for leading International design practice BDP and UK-based planning consultancy Turley, before joining OPEN to help to successfully establish and grow the Manchester studio. Most recently Mark led the Manchester design team with OPEN (now part of SLR) as Director until early 2025. He is also a Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design.

    You can view his LinkedIn profile here

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Design Leadership

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Whilst Lucid may be a relatively new practice our team is experienced in project work across a range of geographies, sectors and scales.

Our Directors, Andrew, Jaimie and Mark, collectively have over 60 years experience in design consultancy. They worked successfully together over a number of years, building a strong working process that has a resulted in a track record of delivery and an enduring reputation for quality, creativity and reliability.

Get in touch here if you’d like to discuss a design challenge or project opportunity with them.