Bob Phillips MTCP (Hons), MA (Urban Design), MRTPI

Director, Planner and Urban Designer

Bob is a chartered town planner and urban designer, who enjoys creating high quality, carefully considered planning and design solutions. He has been heavily involved in delivering planning and design projects for a broad range of clients and companies for nearly 20 years.

Bob strategically directs Urban Imprint projects as well as providing advanced urban design skills. His diverse experience ranges from large housing and mixed-use developments to supporting successful planning applications for specialist employment uses. Bob is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester and vice chair of the RTPI Partnership Board for the University of Cardiff.

Outside of work, Bob enjoys walking and visiting historic cities home and abroad. His hobbies include breeding canaries and his model railway.

Favourite Place

As a Director, Bob is allowed to choose two places...

"The first is the very top of Hellvellyn in the Lake District. It’s the fantastic view you get from the top after a hard climb (especially via Striding Edge) to arrive at this other-worldly place like the surface of the Moon. My second is much more design-focused; the Piazza del Popolo in Todi. From the first time I saw Francis Bacon’s drawings in ‘Design for Cities’, to my later visit it has always appeared magical, having enclosure, activity, different levels and excellent restaurants!"