People & Experience
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
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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, much of it led from OPEN's Manchester studio, includes FEC's 4,800 home Red Bank development, Downing's 2,000-bed co-living scheme at First Street in Manchester, Leigh Civic Square, 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. Most recently Andrew was a Director at OPEN (now part of SLR), where he led landscape design within the Manchester studio, before leaving with fellow directors Jaimie and Mark to establish Lucid.
A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute since 2006, Andrew is also a qualified Building with Nature Assessor.
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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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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 SLR) as Director until early 2025, when he left to join his fellow directors in founding Lucid. He is also a Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design.
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Company Director
Jaimie came to urban design through structural engineering and architecture — a combination that gives him a distinctive perspective: technical rigour alongside genuine creative ambition, and a detailed eye at every scale. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has built a track record of leading design at the highest level, progressing from early work with pioneering urban design practices Alan Baxter & Associates and EDAW to director roles at BDP and Turley, where he served as national Head of Design. Most recently he founded and led the Manchester studio of OPEN, growing it into one of the North's most active masterplanning teams before establishing Lucid.
Throughout that career he has led multi-disciplinary teams for public and private sector clients on some of the most significant regeneration and growth projects in the North of England — from the 3,700-home Stockport Town Centre West masterplan, the regeneration of Ancoats in Manchester, and the transformational Birkenhead 2040 framework to major new settlements, specialist city assets and innovative public spaces. His work is defined by a commitment to delivering physical, social and economic progress together: not trading one off against another, and not just shaping design ambition at the outset but holding it steady through often long and complex delivery processes.
Jaimie is a Recognised Practitioner with the Urban Design Group , an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, and co-founder of Common Good — a movement pushing for better outcomes from development in northern towns and cities. He sits on design review panels for the North West and Yorkshire and regularly tutors at universities across the region.
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Associate Director
Steve is a Chartered Landscape Architect with extensive experience across a broad range of projects within landscape architecture, masterplanning, and urban design.
He specialises in large-scale residential masterplanning and strategic landscape design, helping shape sustainable urban extensions and new settlements for both private and public sector clients. His work is underpinned by a strong understanding of landscape planning and appraisal, enabling him to develop creative yet pragmatic landscape-led design solutions tailored to the unique assets and opportunities of each site.
Steve’s background in detailed landscape design and horticulture provides valuable insight into how strategic concepts and principles can be translated into practical, deliverable outcomes for people, place and context. Recent projects include South East Warrington Urban Extension (Homes England), Bold Forest Garden Village (St Helens Borough Council), and St Cuthbert’s Garden Village (Cumberland Council).
Steve studied Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University, graduating in 2010. In addition to his project work, he is an accredited mentor for the Landscape Institute, supporting colleagues working towards Chartered membership.
Design Leadership
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, most recently running a leading Manchester based masterplanning and landscape studio before leaving to establish Lucid.
They have built 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.