Roy Lewis BA (Hons), MA (Arch Cons), MRTPI, IHBC

• Roy is a chartered town planner who has specialised in urban design and conservation of the historic built environment throughout his career. After more than thirty years in practice, Roy has a high level of appreciation and understanding of historic buildings and places, together with a finely developed sensitivity of the degree to which they can be adapted in the interests of their long-term conservation.


• Roy has advised on numerous contentious planning cases, where his specialist knowledge has led to satisfactory outcomes. His experience covers a wide range of planning practice from broad strategic considerations to detailed design issues. He has a firm belief in the potential for well-designed new development and sensitively conceived adaptations to historic buildings, founded on an understanding of the heritage assets affected, to create high quality environments that stimulate economic and social regeneration.


• Between 2002 and 2008, Roy was programme leader for the undergraduate programme of BA (Hons) Architectural Conservation at the University of Derby, where he was able to share his experience with a new generation of built heritage professionals. Before entering academia, Roy had gained a wealth of professional experience of planning, urban design, and conservation related work in both the public and private sectors.


• Roy is currently the East Midlands Branch Representative on the IHBC Council, a trustee of the Institute, and from 2002-6 represented the Institute on the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL). Since 2004, he has been the English Heritage nominated representative on the Roman Catholic Historic Churches Committee for the Nottingham Diocese. Roy is a former external examiner for the MSc programme in Historic Conservation run by Oxford Brookes University in collaboration with the University of Oxford.