Experience at board level in an organisation of significant scale and complexity.
For 18 years, Jonathan Louth successively developed and/or co-chaired project delivery under City Challenge, Single Regeneration Budget, and Local Strategic Partnership initiatives: experience as NED Chair of South-East Enterprise also bore fruit as architect of multi-stakeholder community/ schools/ leisure/ heritage projects for Greenwich and Lewisham.
“During your long association on the Boards of our regeneration bodies in the Borough, you have readily grasped both the objectives of the infrastructure needs and the detail of the partner projects.”
Chris Roberts
Former Leader, Royal Borough of Greenwich
Leadership and influencing experience with a diverse senior and challenging stakeholder group.
Over 20 years, work as cathedral architect forged consensus & delivery involving cathedral & archiepiscopal clergy, diocesan COO/ finance/ property teams, Local Planning & Historic England officers, Historic Churches/Art & Architecture Committees, and sundry other Catholic agencies while working with consultants, contractors, constructors, artisans & artists.
“During the development of Amigo Hall and Romero House in the precincts of St George’s Cathedral Southwark, I was delighted to work closely with Jonathan Louth & his team, who helped ensure the project was a true partnership between CAFOD & the Diocese of Southwark.”
James Steel
Director of Finance and Services, Catholic Association For Overseas Development:
Significant expertise in balancing public and private sector priorities and requirements.
As NED Chair for South-East Enterprise, the interface of public & private sectors was central to the regeneration programmes. As Vice-Chair of Greenwich’s partnerships, many projects involved the World Heritage Site. Grosvenor, over more than a decade, commissioned Jonathan Louth for strategic development studies synthesizing historic environments with public policy, private development, and leaseholder/tenant considerations in the multi-layered environment of Westminster.
“I have found that on all projects where we have worked together, Jonathan’s in-depth architectural knowledge & attention to detail has proved invaluable, particularly in targetting & controlling costs.
T J Pursey
Former Partner, Castle Hayes LLP, Cost Consultants
Significant experience in overseeing major construction programmes, including at the development phase.
From Part I practice on Taunton shopping centre [a modern mall within the boundaries of historic premises] through design & tender stages of HMP Belmarsh [£114m], then development plans at the Royal Arsenal & Eltham, and the delivery of lottery-funded sport facilities for Greenwich, plus commercial infrastructure works for Merrill Lynch Europe [among others].
“Since our Royal Arsenal Building 10 scheme, I have worked with Jonathan on a number of conservation projects over the last 17 years: I am always impressed by the depth of commitment, sympathy & understanding he brings to his work on historic buildings.”
Paul Byrne
Associate Director, Waldeck Creative Engineering, Structural Engineers
Experience of working within an open and transparent environment.
Jonathan Louth ArConsulting serves governmental, local authority, commercial, charitable, ecclesiastical, professional, retail, leisure and, recently, ambassadorial organisations: each of these sectors require a nuanced, diplomatic approach to the project environment, involving appropriate dissemination of objectives throughout the procurement environment.
“Provincial Council is continually grateful for your frank, clear explanations about context & funding of the various projects which underpin our partnerships here: you clearly have the capacity to fuse the different remits of the Friars – as freeholder & leaseholder communities and the trading company – with the activities of our tenants to the benefit of the estate.”
Fr Brendan Grady
Prior Provincial, Carmelite Charitable Trust
The ability to champion the programme within parliamentary, central & local government, and externally, including to non-technical audiences.
As well as a panoply of non-technical stakeholders concerned in projects for Greenwich Partnership & Lewisham Council, the Practice’s projects in Whitehall, at the Guards’ Chapel, and on Crown Estate/Grosvenor freeholds involve advocacy of the concept and persistence in the detail, overwhelmingly achieving requisite consents and effective delivery.
“I worked with Jonathan Louth on the development of a masterplan for the Discover Greenwich centre [and adjacent listed mews buildings]. His work was very helpful in setting the framework [for Foundation & stakeholders] for a highly successful project, combining a conservation-led approach with excellent modern design.”
Duncan Wilson OBE
Former Chief Executive , Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College
