Wendy Richards
Areas of Expertise
Policy, Regeneration, Urban expansion
Wendy is a design quality focussed, built environment professional with just short of 30 years’ experience across sectors in the UK and South East Asia.
She has the ability to work strategically, influencing the direction and delivery of policy and projects, thriving through multidisciplinary team working. Wendy has a track record of project and programme delivery, as lead consultant in the private sector and with an ‘intelligent client’ role in the public sector on a variety of projects. She is currently an Associate Director at Atkins.
She is a big picture, fat pen person, with an eye for detail and happy to turn a hand to most things. She is in full time employment, mixed with voluntary work whenever possible and is currently the Chair of Llamau, a homelessness charity based in Cardiff. Wendy is focused, capable of dealing with a range of tasks simultaneously and delivering work to a high professional standard. She has good interpersonal skills, and has worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds and professional disciplines.
She is a landscape architect and urban designer currently involved on projects across a broad spectrum; urban expansion to Chippenham, regeneration in Haverfordwest town centre, Future High Streets Fund work in Salisbury, refrofitting SuDS and school external works design.