The Masterplanners

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The Masterplanner team offers an unrivalled combination of detailed local knowledge, experience of working in Westminster and expertise in housing, mixed use planning, contextual urban design and landscape architecture.


These skills and abilities reflect the desire to create a distinguished and sustainable new neighbourhood, that will both empathise with and enhance its surroundings. The Masterplan will strive to provide a real sense of place by defining a range of public and private spaces surrounded by exemplary buildings for which there will be appropriate and considered architectural design guidelines.

The Masterplanning team consists of:


Dixon Jones Architects

Dixon Jones has a reputation for a contextual approach to design that is especially considerate of environments that are composed of historic buildings. Their best known London schemes operating at an urban scale span the Covent Garden opera house and surrounding spaces, an extension to the National Gallery, the new courtyard for Somerset House, renovations to the National Portrait Gallery and King’s Place in Kings Cross. All projects share a desire to make memorable and successful places that ‘mend’ the city.

Squire and Partners

Squire and Partners who featured strongly in the recent NLA Westminster ‘living city’ symposium organised by the council have worked in Westminster since 1976, when the practice was established in a basement office in Pimlico not far from the current Chelsea Barracks site. The practice is very well regarded locally and has an in-depth understanding of the council’s policies and ambitions. Squire and Partners bring extensive knowledge of housing design and mixed use development that will ensure the viability of the masterplan.

Kim Wilkie Associates

Kim Wilkie Associates will bring a unique landscape architecture expertise to a scheme that will give a great deal of attention to its streets, squares and other public spaces. The practice believes that each place has its own special character and identity shaped by memories, imagination and the natural flow of people, land, water and climate. Past London projects include the V&A museum garden, Hyde Park Corner and Princes Square at the Imperial College.


The team has been working together since January 2010 to develop a masterplan for the Chelsea Barracks site based on Soundings’ initial consultation findings and ongoing dialogue.


Top: Masterplanners in action
Middle: Michael Squire, Jeremy Dixon, Ed Jones, Kim Wilkie
Bottom: Masterplanners in action