Enablers

Enablers

Richard Strittmatter

Richard was born in central London in 1952 and spent his early years with parents and sister living in Tooting. An interview secured a place at grammar school, where boyhood fantasies about shooting guns, riding motor-bikes and flying in helicopters were lived out in the cadet corps. A fairly unremarkable academic performance still proved adequate to gain entry to Manchester University to study architecture, where he quickly met and married Eleri, who introduced him to good food, travel and LLanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Unusually qualifying with two degrees and three children, a fourth soon completed the brood.

As Principle Architect with North British Housing Association, Richard gained a broad knowledge of social housing and project delivery, providing the experience to take a lead roll in the delivery of Hulme City Challenge in the nineties. Working across sectors and with roles in a range of partnerships he established mixed-use developments, best practice community participation and helped deliver award-winning Kath Locke community health and resource centre. His experience was further broadened helping to establish the Social Housing Foundation in South Africa, followed by four years as MD of an innovative social enterprise, employing and training long-term unemployed men.

Richard has recently completed a design quality and sustainability framework, review of Local Authority housing strategies and produced a neighbourhood management strategy for Elevate East Lancashire Housing Market Renewal (HMR). He has undertaken an inquiry into a troubled building project for a Primary Care Trust, before assisting Transform South Yorkshire HMR running their design quality programme.

Email: richards@urbaninspiration.co.uk ›

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