Beks has delivered high-quality residential, mixed use, commercial and regenerative masterplanning for both public and private sectors across the UK. Her undergraduate degree in architecture and landscape has moulded her approach to urban design and placemaking. Beks’ approachable nature and energy has driven ambitious and deliverable proposals. She ‘leads with the landscape’ and works with site constraints to generate opportunities to create a sense of place and design communities to live, work and enjoy through ambitious, feasible and successful masterplans.

Her background in graphic design and photography as well as her early career as an architectural designer enabled Beks to home in on her eye for detail and provided an understanding of composition, plan and elevational perspectives that underpin her approach as an urban designer.

Working with multi-disciplinary teams over the last 11 years’, Beks has led the delivery of a wide range of projects including a strategic vision for a Garden Village for 10,000 homes, site promotion for a sustainable community including 3,500 homes, town centre regeneration in the northwest, borough-wide design coding to site-specific design guidance. Beks understands the need to create viable masterplans and strategies to deliver a tangible and comprehensive vision.

When she’s not masterplanning, Beks enjoys travelling to places near and far. Her most recent trip was to Lisbon where Beks enjoyed being immersed in the local culture and learning how the city evolved through history, reflected in its urban grain, architectural identity and public spaces. These experiences can be translated into the human-scaled public spaces and thoughtful, walkable and vibrant communities that Beks helps to shape.

Beks’ other interests include exploring the countryside by bike, playing in the local rounders’ team and camping with her dog Wanda.

Sarah is passionate about Urban Design and creating ‘people friendly places’, bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to her work. She has a wide range of design experience working on mixed-use and residential projects at a variety of scales. Sarah has a keen attention to detail and places an emphasis on high design quality.  

With an enthusiasm for placemaking, active travel and creating walkable and sustainable neighbourhoods, Sarah is interested in how Urban Design can contribute to the creation of resilient futures and the impact of health and wellbeing in urban areas. She combines her existing knowledge and experience with a curiosity to learn and enjoys resolving design challenges to create high quality places for people.  

Outside of edge, Sarah loves aerial acrobatics, open water swimming and surfing along the coast. She is also a cycling enthusiast and likes to travel by bike whenever she can.  

Lowri is always looking to push the boundaries of what can be achieved in terms of design. She loves to critique her own work and always looks to engage in conversations that encourage further exploration, to produce designs of the highest quality.

After graduating from an MA in Urban Design in 2021 and working in the industry for the past year, Lowri has experience working on projects of all scale including residential, mixed use, and industrial sites.

Lowri is particularly interested in the design of development centres, where communities will come together, and utilise public open spaces. Her final dissertation focussed on the role of markets on the high street and how a ‘successful’ market can have a positive effect on the experience of place. The outcome of the project emphasised the importance of flexible open space that can have a multiple different uses and users.

Lowri is excited for the opportunity to grow and learn at edge; to help design and envision future developments that deliver spaces for healthy, liveable, and sociable communities that push the boundaries of sustainable, future proofed design.

Outside of edge Lowri takes every opportunity to travel, especially to see family. She is also a lover of the outdoors and is often seen in a raincoat and walking boots on a long hike, no matter the weather.

Izzie is passionate about designing places that people are excited to use and be a part of. She believes having an empathetic approach to urban design results in the creation of inclusive spaces that respond to the current and future needs of a community.

Izzie is especially interested in placemaking and the cultural identity of places. With a keen interest in history, as well as a passion for fun, Izzie believes that by giving people the opportunity to enjoy a healthy and happy lifestyle – all places have the power to create strong memories and be a major element in our life story. This was reflected in Izzie’s final research project for university which focused on ‘Playful Places for Adults’.

Before joining edge, Izzie previously worked as an Architectural Technologist before changing her career path to focus on her passion for Urban Design. Izzie recently completed her MA in Urban Design, whilst also working in the industry throughout her studies, and so has experience working on a variety of residential schemes of varying scales.

Outside of edge, Izzie loves to travel as often as possible, especially with family and friends. Izzie loves to be in the outdoors, from walking her dog, to mountaineering and coasteering. She loves trying new things (especially food!) and when there is an opportunity to relax, Izzie can be found deep in a new novel or obsessing over a podcast.

Natalie is an experienced Graphic Designer with over a decade of expertise in the architectural sector. She specialises in branding, print-based marketing collateral and illustration, ensuring that all visual output is both eye-catching and strategically aligned with project goals.

With a keen eye for detail and a passion for storytelling through design, Natalie excels at crafting unique brand identities while maintaining consistency within established guidelines. She thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and delivering high-quality materials that enhance planning and tendering processes.

Beyond her technical skills, Natalie enjoys collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to bring creative visions to life. She draws inspiration from contemporary illustrators, exhibitions and design publications, always seeking fresh ideas to elevate her work.

Natalie balances her career with a love for outdoor adventures, discovering new food spots, and spending time with her family.

Niamh is passionate about creating inspiring, people-focused, quality places that contribute positively to people’s health, happiness, and well-being. Niamh believes that putting people and how they use public spaces at the forefront of the design process is crucial to creating long-lasting, quality public places that become the heart of the community.

Niamh is particularly interested in exploring ways in which we can make our streets and public realm more accessible and inclusive through design. She strives to advocate for people who are often overlooked in the design process, as she believes places cannot claim to be truly people-focused if they are not designed with all types of people in mind.

Niamh graduated in 2018 with First Class Honours in (BA) City & Regional Planning and in 2019 completed her MA in Urban Design. With over 4 years of experience as an urban designer, she has experience in a range of projects at varying scales, including residential, mixed-use, academic, and commercial sites.

Niamh is excited for the opportunity to learn and evolve alongside a team of impressive, like-minded people at edge who are passionate about creating great places.

Outside of edge, Niamh can be found curled under a blanket with a hot chocolate and a good book, playing board games with her husband, or completing a jigsaw puzzle!

With a background in Visual Merchandising at a global brand for over 8 years, Carina has used her creative skills in crafting beautiful layouts and window presentations, leading to a love for placemaking. Her true calling in life lies in Urban Design—where she can make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, whilst making beautiful places to live.

Carina’s journey has been shaped by a desire to impact communities positively, and her time at Oxford Brookes University has equipped her with valuable experience —learning by taking on challenges leading to her developing her skills. As a Graduate Urban Designer, she is now thrilled to join the Edge Urban Design team, eager to continue evolving and contributing her creativity and expertise to make places better for all of us.

Chaity’s Journey into Urban Design began while completing a BA in Interior & Spatial Design in UAL, and she has recently completed her MA in Housing & Urbanism at the Architectural Association in London. Her work is driven by a desire to reimagine how cities function, placing housing, public life, and civic engagement at the centre of urban transformation.

Throughout her academic journey, with project experience across residential and community-based design projects, Chaity has developed a strong understanding of how people interact with space at both the domestic and urban scale.

She is particularly interested in projects that integrate housing with mixed-use and civic functions, aiming to create more resilient, equitable, and socially vibrant urban environments. With a balance of creative vision and technical skill, Chaity is committed to shaping cities that respond to the evolving needs of their communities.

Ngaio gets his name from a Māori word for the ‘Myoporum laetum’ tree as his Dad is a tree surgeon. Ngaio also means ‘reflections on the water’ in Maori culture.

There is absolutely nothing that Ngaio wouldn’t do for a CARROT…nothing.

As you can tell, Ngaio is slightly larger than his peitie colleagues, at a very impressive 40kg in weight!

Ngaio frequently manages to turn his ears inside out when he’s out for a walk!

He is extremely jealous when his Dad gives attention to other furry friends and he will immediately put himself in between and whimper.

For such a big boy, he is scared of fizzy drinks, cats and hairbrushes.

Every single time you squeak his favourite toy, he licks his nose.

Ngaio is one of the forefathers of post-postmodernism and metamodernism in Urban Design. His work moves beyond the relativism, irony, and skepticism that defined postmodernism, while building upon and critiquing its ideas.

 As Sonny is part of a rugby obsessed family he was named after the New Zealand rugby player Sonny Bill Williams.  He has a black coat with white chest so he’s also the colours of the New Zealand flag!

Due to Sonny’s long moustache his nickname is Master Shifu, after the character in Kung Fu Panda.

Since the pandemic and having the attention of five people at home, Sonny has major separation anxiety – thankfully he’s now one of the edge team so joins in the Thame office fun!

Sonny has a bed in almost every room in the house.

He is the fussiest eater and will only eat his dinner if chicken is mixed into the kibble!

Sonny is always really pleased with himself after chasing squirrels and pigeons out of his garden.

His happy place is on Porthchapel Beach, Cornwall.

Before joining edge Sonny was Finance Director for a top 5 PLC housebuilder, bringing with him a vast amount of experience in strategic financial decision making.