Political acumen, the ability to navigate relationships and quickly grasp the environment and dynamics in which parliamentary, governmental, and other sectors operate, including their interactions with.
Jonathan Louth’s participation in the Common Purpose City Leadership Programme, then later playing active roles in city regeneration prior to the millennium festival at meetings with ministers & representation to the DCMS Select Committee, as well as Cambridge University’s course in Inter-disciplinary Design for the Built Environment at the centre for sustainability leadership all exercised & honed an understanding of public procurement & governance.
“The benefit of your advice at Guards’ Chapel is how you interact with the technical teams in DIO and MoD in a way that helps the Trust navigate between public funding & procurement rules and our Charity obligations to donors & members of the Guards’ Associations.”
William Style [Major retd]
Treasurer Household Division Funds, Guards’ Chapel Trust
Computer design image courtesy of Harrison & Harrison Organ Builders
Strong communication and influencing skills; the ability to listen effectively and challenge constructively, supporting collective decisions and balancing challenge with assurance and support.
Three local authority projects specifically engaged significant & diverse objectives with a wide set of consultees – the Royal Arsenal planning policy study, the Eltham centre for healthy living & leisure, and the Moonshot centre for dance, schools & community use. Jonathan Louth’s Masters thesis on Compact Localities influenced the Local Plan for East Greenwich and North Charlton, which then enhanced residential densities around the town centre and retail cores.
“Whenever I asked Jonathan Louth a question, during the development of three different building projects – encompassing both historic conversion in the Royal Arsenal and new build in Eltham – I knew I would get an answer, not necessarily there and then, but always well argued and well adapted to our own perspective.”
Mark Sesnan
Director, Greenwich Leisure Limited
High credibility with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of individuals, building productive, collaborative relationships.
Jonathan Louth ArConsulting operates in no fixed construction sector: working in varied contexts, the common denominator is less a structure of dedicated departments in the firm than a specific attention as lead consultant to each type of project.
“I have used Jonathan for over 10 years on a number of projects on both listed buildings and conservation areas. Whilst providing the client (me) with practical and economically viable solutions these were always sympathetic to the surroundings with a supporting explanation to the client for his proposals. Besides his sympathy and obvious love for historic architecture, Jonathan is very creative and adaptable.
“I can fully recommend Jonathan for any assignment where conservation and practical solutions are important elements. “
David Hillman
Hillco Ltd
Residential Developer
An enquiring mind, able to grasp relevant issues and develop creative solutions.
Jonathan Louth’s involvement at St George’s Cathedral encompassed micro- and macro- scales: choir desks, memorial boards, new Shrines, bespoke light fittings, complete renewal of building services infrastructure, extensive grant-aided parapet/ structure/ masonry conservation, redevelopment of C19th & C20th premises as diocesan departmental offices, plus comprehensive reordering of the community hall into a multi-level diocesan conference & parish meeting facility.
” Dear Jonathan. Many congratulations!! You have certainly made a lovely place for a gathering, that will be even better when fully completed. We went for the KHS Vigil, the Meeting and Mass, so used the Hall both days. There was absolutely spontaneous applause when we were greeted and the Lieutenant referred to the work [of redevelopment in the Amigo Hall].
The Dean also was anxious for my views on the [stainless steel] gates and [Theo Gillick’s] shrine. The former are marvelous: Keith took a super photo of them! The shrine is lovely, very moving. Very well done and best wishes.”
Corinne Bennett, RIP
Chair of Fabric Committee, St George’s Cathedral Southwark
The intellectual rigour to understand complex issues and risk quickly.
Jonathan Louth’s & colleagues’ methodology is rooted in analysis & synthesis from an architectural &development perspective, almost always in the context of a development that has previously proved unviable or failed to obtain necessary consents. The Practice has a track record of achieving consents and a practiced habit of inter-disciplinary processes, which underpinned Jonathan Louth’s drafting This Victorian Gateway, an East Greenwich Management Agency program document that won SRB funding.
“In my role as a Trustee of a major historic buildings estate [the Old Royal Naval College], I found Jonathan’s analysis & presentation of the wider issues of the whole complex very compelling. His firm may be small but his vision & intelligence are not.”
Alan Baxter
Founding Member, Alan Baxter & Associates LLP, Integrated Design
Strong commitment to public service values such as diversity and inclusion, and the Nolan Principles of public life: Selflessness; Integrity; Objectivity; Accountability; Openness; Honesty; Leadership.
Jonathan Louth’s essays & thesis in the Cambridge University Interdisciplinary Design Masters programme researched & reported on congruence between client values, professional duties & public benefit, developing insights about public life that I gained first on the Common Purpose leadership programme: subsequent speaking engagements and NED work with the Association of Consultant Architects & Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust helped translate the values in practice.
” You are so good at doing little sketches of tricky junctions and you can describe an intention with a quick freehand perspective sketch, communicating the idea in a way that the owner can envisage the options. I wish I could do so too!.”
Lorraine Carter
Historic Buildings Officer (now retired), Aylesbury Vale District Council
