Wendy Shillam

Wendy is an award winning architect and urbanist.  She has worked with and in towns and cities for over 20 years in urban planning, regeneration and design.  In 2006 she decided to close the urbanism branch of her practice and to take 2007 as a sabbatical year, visiting 21 successful towns and cities in Europe and the USA as part of a project called The Cities Project ( www.thecitiesproject.com ).  The smallest town in the project is Southwold in Suffolk and the largest is New York.
On returning to the UK in April 2008 she decided to concentrate on one project and one place. The place she found was Whitehill Bordon the shortlisted Eco-town in East Hampshire.  She now leads the Eco-town bid for East Hampshire District Council.  The project is unique amongst the remaining shortlisted towns because it is a Local Authority led project.