Full name:
Nicholas Heron Wates
Date of birth:
6 January 1951
Address:
Creative Media Centre,
45 Robertson Street,
Hastings TN34 1HL
Telephone:
Office: +44 (0)1424 205446
Fax: +44 (0)1424 205401
Mobile:
+44 (0)7770 921824
email:
nick@nickwates.co.uk
website:
www.nickwates.co.uk
General skills:
Writing, photography, teaching, computer operating, building.
Current status:
Managing Director of Nick Wates Associates Limited, Community Planning Consultants.
Independent writer, researcher, publisher and project consultant specialising in community involvement in planning and design.
Site Editor Communityplanning.net. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
2009
The Dale Carnegie Course, Dale Carnegie Training
Effective communications and human relations
Special recognition
1974-75
Development Planning Unit, University College London:
Diploma in Development Planning
1970-73
School of Environmental Studies, University College London:
B.Sc with First Class Honours in Architecture, Planning, Building and Environmental Studies (includes RIBA Part 1).
1964-69
Bedales School, Hampshire:
GCE ‘O’levels,10 subjects; GCE ‘A’ levels, 4 subjects (maths, physics, geography, woodwork); Associated Board, grade 8 French horn
1989-91
Director, Hastings Urban Conservation Project and Hastings Trust, Sussex.
1986-87
Co-organiser, Building Communities; the first international conference on community architecture, planning and design, Astoria Theatre, London.
1976-83
Assistant News Editor, external editor and News Editor, Architects’ Journal, London.
1974
Coordinator, Tolmers Village Association, Euston, London.
1973
Assistant to the Director, City Poverty Committee, Covent Garden, London.
1970
Teacher of maths and carpentry, Shashi River School, Botswana, Africa.
1996-
Project Manager, Urban Design Group Public Participation Programme.
1993-99
Senior Research Associate, The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture.
1993-94
Editorial Board member, Perspectives on Architecture.
1993-95
Assessor, Community Enterprise Awards.
1989-90
Chairman, Hastings Environment Forum.
1988
UK Speaker, European Salaried Architects Congress, Poland.
1987-88
UK Coordinator & Plenary Speaker, Remaking Cities conference, Pittsburgh
1987-88
Managing Editor, Building Communities Bookshop, London.
1985-87
Columnist, Building Design, London
1979-86
Press Officer, Limehouse Development Group, London Docklands.
1975-89
Freelance journalist specialising on environmental politics, community architecture and urban regeneration.
2010
Concertation citoyenne en urbanisme: La méthode du Community Planning, (co-author with Eléonore Hauptmann), Yves Michelle
(French translation and adaptation of The Community Planning Event Manual)
2008
The Community Planning Event Manual; How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment, Earthscan.
2010
Tolmers in Colour, Memories of a London squatter community,
(with Mae Dewsbery and Caroline Lwin). Bay Leaf books.
2000
The Community Planning Handbook; how people can shape their cities, towns and villages in any part of the world, Earthscan.
1999
Action Planning; how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve your environment, Miroslav Kundrata (Czech translation).
1997
Action Planning; how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve your environment, MATCH (German translation), 1997.
1996
Action Planning; how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve your environment, Chuan Hsing Publishing Co (Chinese translation).
1996
Action Planning; how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve your environment, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture.
1993
Community Architecture; how people are creating their own environment,
(co-author with Charles Knevitt). Chuan Hsing Publishing Co (Chinese translation).
1992
Community Architecture; how people are creating their own environment,
(co-author with Charles Knevitt). Toshi Bunka Sha (Japanese translation).
1987
Community Architecture; how people are creating their own environment,
(co-author with Charles Knevitt). Penguin Books Ltd.
1980
Squatting, the real story,
(compiler and co-author with Christian Wolmar). Bay Leaf books.
1976
The Battle for Tolmers Square, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
1998
Involving Local Communities in Urban Design; promoting good practice, Urban Design Quarterly, July (compiler).
1992
A Multicultural Centre for Hastings: St Mary-in-the-Castle Prospectus,, St Mary-in-the-Castle Working Party, (editor).
1991
Turning the Tide; Hastings Trust prospectus and review 1991, (editor).
1986
The Limehouse Petition; for a future inner city,Limehouse Development Group in association with the Town & Country Planning Association, (editor).
1975-99
Published in: Architects’ Journal, Architectural Design, Architectural Review, Building Design, Bulletin of Environmental Education, Community Action, Daily Mirror, Designer, East End News, Environment Now, Guardian, London Architect, New Society, Observer, Perspectives , RIBA Journal, Times, Thames Mirror, Undercurrents, Urban Design Quarterly, Urbanisation, Vole.
1987
The Hackney Way, BBC2 Omnibus, (programme consultant)
1979
Down to Earth, BBC Radio 4, (scriptwriter and narrator)
1975
Tolmers: Beginning or end?, Thompson Productions for BBC2, (producer)
2009
Finalist in RTPI Planning Awards (communityplanning.net)
1993
China News ‘Best 10 books of the Year’ award, (Community Architecture).
1978
Architectural Writer of the Year, International Building Press.
1970 -
Africa, 1970; USA, 1973/75/86/96; Japan, 1995; South East Asia, 1978; Central & South America, 1975/83; Russia, 1978; Middle East, 1996; Europe, frequent.
