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Georgina Bignold:

Architect & Director

Qualifications:
BA (Hons), DipArch, MA Arch
Academic appointments:
Guest Speaker, Kent Design School, 2025
Guest Speaker, University of Cambridge, 2023-24
Mentor, MSt Architecture Apprenticeship (Part 2), University of Cambridge, 2024
Guest Speaker, University of Dundee, 2023-24
Visiting Critic, Kingston University
Consultancy appointments:
Harlow & Gilston Quality Review Panel Member, 2024-ongoing
Greater Cambridge Design Review Panel Member, 2022-ongoing
Canterbury Design Review Panel Member, 2021-ongoing
Dover District Design and Place Panel, 2021-ongoing
Ebbsfleet Garden City Design Forum, Panel Member, 2019-ongoing
Design South East, Panel Member, 2019-ongoing

Georgina is a Director of Proctor and Matthews Architects, where she oversees large scale residential and placemaking projects. With a master’s in architecture from the University of Westminster, she joined the practice in 1999.

Throughout her career, Georgina played a key role on several award-winning projects, including Abode at Great Kneighton, a major new housing and mixed-use community in the Cambridge Southern Fringe growth area and Greenwich Millennium Village in London. This project utilised prefabricated construction techniques to deliver rapid construction and increased quality. Georgina also led the team for Inholm, a sustainable urban neighbourhood of 400 homes for Homes England, which set pioneering townscape design principles for the wider new town of Northstowe near Cambridge.

Currently, she is collaborating with O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects to deliver social housing for Dublin City Council and recently led the team designing a new village ‘Little Impney’ in South Worcestershire, within an estate wide masterplan of the historic Impney Hall by LDA.

Georgina has also been applying her experience to undertake design guidance that aspires to deliver character and quality across large sites, including the Design for Ebbsfleet Study and the Hertfordshire Strategic Sites Design Guidance. Most recently, she has been involved in a borough-wide Pathfinder Design Code for Gedling Borough Council, led by David Lock Associates, as well as several research-led projects for Homes England, including an update to ‘Car Parking What Works Where’, guidance for context and character analysis and the design of local centres.

Georgina is an active member of various Design Review Panels, where she continues to influence architectural quality across the country.