Stephen Robins has extensive experience leading masterplanning and development projects in the UK and internationally. His projects aim to create sustainable neighborhoods through participatory planning processes and by engaging stakeholders. He facilitates collaborative workshops and charrettes to incorporate local knowledge into plans. Recent projects include mixed-use developments providing hundreds of new homes along with parks, schools, and other community amenities.

1. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // Sustainable development is most effectively achieved if it engages stakeholder knowledge and
Community Planning commitment at every stage of the process.
Clients //
Public bodies, Participatory techniques can be applied at any scale of project, and have been shown to accelerate
local authorities, the decision-making process, break down barriers and achieve a common sense of ownership. I
land owners, land have facilitated a range of collaborative planning events including community planning weekends
promoters, developers and key stakeholder charrettes.
and house builders.
March 2013

2. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Hethersett North,
Hethersett, Norfolk
Masterplan to outline
planning submission
Client //
Ptarmigan Land
Project leader overseeing the preparation of A sensitive approach to development is
100ha mixed use urban extension to the village adopted, fitting in with the existing valuable
of Hethersett. landscape structure of natural features
The development at Hethersett North including trees, hedgerows, ponds and other
provides the opportunity to create new ecologically sensitive areas.
distinctive high quality and sustainable mixed- The development will have a strong sense
use neighbourhoods, containing up to 1,196 of belonging to South Norfolk promoted
homes, set within a generous and spectacular by a clear hierarchy of memorable spaces,
landscape network of parks, water features, landscape features and buildings.
sports pitches, allotments, community gardens
and cycle ways. The majority of the site will
be accessible to the public offering a new and
significant leisure resource for the residents of
Hethersett.
March 2013

3. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // The following sequence of diagrams, show the key organising principles for the proposed
Hethersett North, development at Hethersett.
Hethersett, Norfolk
Masterplan to outline
planning submission
Client //
Ptarmigan Land
1. The site today. 2. Establish a primary landscape network.
3. Establish a secondary landscape network. 4. Hethersett grows.
5. Connect the east to the west 6. Establish secondary routes
7. Anchor parks 8. Creation of a neighbourhood hub
9. Downgrade Back Lane 10. Neighbourhood community focal points
March 2013

4. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Land West of
Southwater,
Southwater, Horsham
Masterplan to outline
planning submission
Client //
Berkeley
Project leader overseeing the preparation of 513 home urban extension
of Southwater, Horsham.
The vision for land west of Southwater is informed by appreciating the
DNA of the village. The proposals draw upon the village’s best qualities
to create an appropriate yet distinct character.
The land west of Southwater will deliver new and improved community
assets including a new cricket pitch and sports pavilion, football pitches,
a site for a secondary school, a new parish building, improvements to
the village hall and expanded allotments.
March 2013

5. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // Creator the JTP Vision Document
Vision documents/ methodology forming part of formal
Representations representations to emerging Core Strategies.
The document sets out the vision for the
Client //
site, the principles of development and
Various including the identification of benefits of developing
Quintain, General at particular location. Benefits may include
Motors, land owners access to existing facilities or other sustainable
and Ptarmigan Land criteria such as public transport or cycle and
pedestrian routes.
March 2013

6. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Hounslow West
Tube Station,
Hounslow
Feasibility Study
(private commission)
Client //
Transport for London
(TfL)
Private commission for a feasibility study prepared on behalf of
Transport for London in support of the redevelopment of the land at
Hounslow West Underground Station.
Proposals include a high density mixed use scheme composed of
apartments, office, retail and a new transport interchange set around the
grade II listed station building.
March 2013

7. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // Associate Director overseeing the preparation of 24ha mixed-use waterside masterplan on a
Chesterfield brownfield site adjacent to town centre. The redevelopment involves the creation of a mixed-
Waterside, use heart, set around a new canal basin serving as the terminus for a newly revitalised 40 mile
Chesterfield stretch of canal.
Masterplan to outline Proposals also include a new navigable canal arm, 1,200 homes, shops bars, cafes, reasturants,
planning submission office space, an ecological park, homezones and an extensive SUDS network.
Client //
Chesterfield
Waterside Partnership
March 2013

8. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Lower Broughton,
Salford Manchester
Development
framework toward
SPD
Client //
Countryside
Properties
Associate Director overseeing the design aspect of 50ha+ Development Framework for Lower
Broughton, a brownfield site in East Salford only 25 minutes walk from Manchester City Centre.
Currently an underused area with industrial uses along the River Irwell and low quality housing
with ill defined or underused associated open space. Lower Broughton is a critical site in the
realisation of Salfords’ aspirations for regeneration and strengthening its role in the wider city
region.
The Development Framework is designed to articulate the vision for Lower Broughton and how
it will be achieved in terms of built form. It explains the story behind the vision; in particular
how the proposed development could physically deliver much needed social infrastructure and
facilities in an area suffering from lack of investment and social pride.
Regeneration proposals involve the repopulation of the failing neighbourhood through the
provision of new homes, provision of new jobs, a re-envisaged local centre and the creation of a
city-significant waterside park.
March 2013

9. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
West Ruislip,
Hillingdon
Masterplan to outline
planning submission
Client //
St. Modwen & Vinci
Project leader for the redevelopment of an
ex Ministry of Defence brownfield site in
the London Borough Of Hillingdon. The
redevelopment proposes 500 new homes, a
community hall, school and new playing fields.
March 2013

10. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Tattenhoe Park,
Milton Keynes
Development
framework to outline
planning submission
Client //
English Partnerships
Project leader for 52ha site proposing a new
neighbourhood of over 1,300 new homes, with
shops and community facilities, public open
space and a new primary school.
The masterplan aims to deliver an attractive,
well designed place to live, with strong
connections to surrounding neighbourhoods
and the wider city.
March 2013

11. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project //
Yew Tree Farm,
Burscough
Vision for
representations
(private commission)
Client //
Crompton
Developments
Private urban design commission through
Mosaic Urban Design Ltd.
Masterplan for a 1,100 unit mixed use
masterplan in Burscough, West Lancashire.
Proposals include a new town park, feature
lake, allotments, youth centre, local mixed
use centre comprising shops, office space,
workshops, apartments, a cafe and public
house.
The scheme is currently being promoted
through the West Lancashire Core Strategy.
March 2013

12. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // King Abdullah CARE is a new
King Abdullah CARE city of 60,000 residents with the
Eco City, Riyadh, Saudi primary purpose of spearheading
Arabia. research and industry in the fields
of atomic and renewable energy. As
Development
such, the Masterplan reflects this
framework for a new
vision by providing a sustainable
sustainable city
environment for a viable national
Client // atomic and renewable energy sector.
The Masterplan allows for the cross
King Abdullah CARE
fertilization of research and industry as
well as the permeation of ideas and
products between the city and the
rest of the kingdom.
March 2013

13. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // Design leader overseeing the design of a new expatriate community in
Diriyah, Riyad, Saudi Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
Arabia Located western Riyad the proposal incorporates over 1,000 new
Masterplan homes in a mixture of apartments and terraced, semi-detached and
detached houses.
Client //
The heart of the scheme provides a range of community facilities
Millenium including a souk, ciniema and community club house all set in generous,
Development and spectacular landscape.
Saudi Oger
March 2013

14. Stephen Robins // Selected Projects
Project // Detroit exemplifies the typical American post peak oil. The subsequent reduced city
Oak Park, Detroit, city suffering from declining fortunes of the area available for residential use enables
United States of car industry and empty abandoned streets the opportunity for the intensification and
America caused by the sub prime mortgage crisis. restructuring of the remaining suburban
With large areas of Detroit abandoned and areas into local centres capable of supporting
Competition // left to decay its time to re-evaluate the themselves from a social, environmental and
Resilient Cities – fundamental structure of the city alongside economic standpoint. All this must be in
2nd Place recommendations for a new denser suburban keeping with the American Dream of freedom
grain to create a true resilient city. of choice. Opportunity for every person to
By giving back swathes of land within the choose how they want to live, whether to
city to urban agriculture, bio fuel crops and redevelop their plot of land on their own,
renewable energy resources such as solar or perhaps with a neighbor, or maybe a
farms can we turn abandoned parts of the developer, or to keep the big house and all
city to the advantage of all and instil a shift the land. Broad choice of accommodation is
to localised urbanism and sustainable living at the heart of our proposal to foster diverse
social sustainability.
March 2013