Associate
Sarah McLeary
Urban Designer
About
Sarah is an architect and urban designer, passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of communities through placemaking.
Before joining the Autumn Cohort 2024, Sarah was a Senior Architect at Smith Scott Mullan, focussing on strategic landscape-led developments across the UK. Sarah has extensive experience working on challenging low-value brownfield sites, balancing the technical constraints and collaborating closely with consultants to resolve the best design solution for the place and community. Sarah has facilitated workshops, visioning exercises and community consultations at all scales.
Recently, Sarah worked with the local community to write the East Lammermuir Local Place Plan, the first to be validated by the local authority in East Lothian. Sarah is working on a feasibility study to retrofit rural homes at scale, initially as a demonstrator funded by community benefits.
Autumn Cohort 2024
Gateshead Council
As part of our Autumn Cohort 2024, Sarah is working as an Urban Designer at Gateshead Council.
Connect with Sarah
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