Sarah is passionate about creating special places and motivated to enhance the quality of placemaking in the UK with fresh and forward-thinking ideas – making ‘different’ great! Alongside thinking strategically and ensuring a robust design approach at all stages of a project, one of Sarah’s strengths is turning ideas into reality. She believes in designing high quality, sustainable developments with a strong focus on community engagement to create a legacy for future generations. Sarah’s architectural background and natural aptitude for resolving problems ensures a design approach that embraces rigour and structure at all stages of the design process.

Throughout her career to date, Sarah has taken a lead role in the design, coordination, and successful delivery of numerous residential and mixed-use projects, ranging from 1 to 6,000 units throughout the UK and northern Europe. Sarah has over 15 years’ of extensive experience across all sectors from housing to education, retail, and commercial masterplanning and in Architecture and Urban Design. As co-founder of edge Urban Design alongside Hannah Smart, Sarah is resolved to bring a new Urban Design and masterplanning offer to the market. Sarah and Hannah are highly skilled and respected in the master planning profession, having delivered between them planning permissions for in excess of 40,000 new homes across the UK throughout their careers.