Simon is an Architect and Urban Designer, a housing specialist and Managing Partner of HTA Design LLP. He joined HTA in 1998 as a Part 2 graduate, became a Director in 2007 and a founding Partner of the LLP in 2013. As HTA’s Managing Partner since 2016 Simon has led the practice through a significant growth in size and reputation to be recognised as leading designers of healthy, sustainable and affordable places to live.
Simon is currently a member of the Southwark Design Review panel and served a full term on the RIBA Housing Group. He contributes regular to trade and national press on housing matters to advance the debate around quality design in housing. In recent years he co-authored Distinctively Local, a report on delivering quality in suburban housing, contributed chapters to the Agile Ageing Alliance’s Neighbourhoods of the Future, and the Housing Design Manual by David Levitt and Jo McAfferty. In 2020 the RIBA published The Modular Housing Handbook, written with HTA partner Rory Bergin.