Louise Thomas

Louise became a Trustee and joined the Executive Committee in April 2019

3 April 2019

Louise Thomas is an urban designer and architect by training. She runs an independent urban design consultancy (TDRC), and has held senior roles in planning and design companies in the UK. She is also executive director of the Historic Towns & Villages Forum (HTVF), based in Kellogg College, Oxford. Her passion for urban design, development processes and the public’s involvement in shaping places means that she enjoys running educational, consultancy and research projects for a variety of public and private clients and a wide range of audiences.
Louise is the co-editor of the Urban Design Group’s quarterly journal Urban Design, and a Trustee of the Francis Tibbalds Trust. She also teaches post-graduate urban design and urban planning master’s programmes at the University of Westminster, London. Louise has lived in Oxford for many years after attending Cheney School, and has a young family.