

Mike has over 40 years of working in the housing and regeneration sector. His early career was spent designing, managing and supporting the delivery of a wide range of projects ranging from newbuild homes in London’s Docklands, to major estate regeneration projects and refurbishment programmes with a very wide spectrum of clients, consultants and stakeholders.
Joining HTA in 1986 as a newly qualified architect, he helped form HTA Design LLP in 2013 as an Equity Partner.
He is a passionate advocate for the housing sector and brings his experience and network to bear on supporting politicians, developers in both public and private sectors, investors and stakeholders in navigating the challenges of delivering great homes and places through collaboration.
A regular contributor to press and author of milestone reports including ‘Making a Place for Low Cost Housing’ [The Housing Forum 2013] and ‘Build Homes Build Jobs Build Innovation’, co-written with Mark Farmer in 2020. He has also supported numerous enquiries into housing.
A passionate advocate for good municipal housing, Mike also champions Market Rent, “Multi-family” and “Single-family” development in the UK and promotes the virtues of offsite manufacture and modular approaches to supplement the delivery of the homes the country needs.
Mike has amassed over twenty years in non- executive roles on housing association boards’ and is a currently a Trustee of the Haringey Play Association (HarPA) in Tottenham.
He was appointed as observer to the board of the Housing Forum in March 2022 after over a decade as a board member where he advocates for the delivery of great buildings, sustainable placemaking and place keeping that transform environments and the lives of current and future communities.