AMY PRIESTLEY | BA Hons, MA
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Amy is an Urban Designer and Planner, with 5 years’ experience working in the built environment sector, specialising in the development and design of streets and public spaces.
Previously, Amy worked as an Urban Designer on the award-winning Mini-Holland Programme in London Borough of Waltham Forest’s Highways Team, helping to transform the borough’s streets and public spaces to support and encourage everyday walking and cycling. Through the Mini-Holland Programme, Amy has extensive experience of delivering walking and cycling schemes, from inception through to completion. Her design work covers segregated cycle schemes on major corridors and junctions; through to linear parks, pocket parks, local high streets, cycle streets and modal filters in area-based traffic management schemes. Her work has focused around ensuring high quality walking and cycling environments, as well as considering and improving public transport infrastructure and working with a wide range of business and freight needs. Amy’s design work has resulted in streets which support healthy communities and businesses, while also creating an attractive stage for urban life to unfold. Amy is a strong advocate for walking, cycling, and designing streets focused around the movement and enjoyment of people. Her work building relationships with communities and businesses throughout her career and during the Mini-Holland Programme has helped to overcome challenges and build consensus for schemes. She has also demonstrated that streets for walking and cycling can also provide a huge array of wider benefits and opportunities, whether economic, environmental or community based. |
