PhD by Publication, University of Brighton.

The Dale Carnegie Course, Dale Carnegie Training, Effective communications and human relations, Special recognition

Development Planning Unit, University College London: Diploma in Development Planning

School of Environmental Studies, University College London: B.Sc with First Class Honours in Architecture, Planning, Building and Environmental Studies (includes RIBA Part 1).

Bedales School, Hampshire: GCE ‘O’levels,10 subjects; GCE ‘A’ levels, 4 subjects (maths, physics, geography, woodwork); Associated Board, grade 8 French horn; played in school orchestra and the band Circulation.
See Back to Bedales video, 2019, the Pennine Way expedition photos, 1967 and Making Stuff, 2024

 

Managing Director, Nick Wates Associates.

Director, Hastings Urban Conservation Project and Hastings Trust, Sussex.

Co-organiser, Building Communities; the first international conference on community architecture, planning and design, Astoria Theatre, London.

Assistant News Editor, external editor and News Editor, Architects’ Journal, London.

Coordinator, Tolmers Village Association, Euston, London.

Assistant to the Director, City Poverty Committee, Covent Garden, London.

Teacher of maths and carpentry, Shashe River School, Botswana, Africa. See photos

Co-editor of tolmers.net www.tolmers.net

Chair, Hastings Trust and Hastings Trust in voluntary liquidation.

Website editor, the Community Planning Website, www.communityplanning.net and Nick Wates Associates, www.nickwates.com (this website)

Community Fellow, University of Brighton.

Doctoral researcher, School of Environment & Technology, University of Brighton

External Examiner, Doctoral College, University of Brighton

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .

Academician, Academy of Urbanism.

Associate of the Community Development Foundation.

Member of the Design Review Panel of the South Downs National Park Authority.

Steering Group member, Research study on ‘Wider social participation in the architectural design process’, Scottish Matrix for Architectural Research and Knowledge for the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

Regeneration Advisor, The Castleford Project, Talkback/Channel 4.

Project Manager, Community Planning Training & Development Programme, The Prince’s Foundation in association with The Civic Trust.

Research Associate, The Prince’s Foundation.

Senior Research Associate, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture.

Project Manager, Urban Design Group Public Participation Programme.

Editorial Board member,  Perspectives on Architecture.

Assessor, Community Enterprise Awards.

Chair, Hastings Environment Forum.

UK Speaker, European Salaried Architects Congress, Poland.

UK Coordinator & Plenary Speaker, Remaking Cities conference, Pittsburgh

Managing Editor, Building Communities Bookshop, London.

Columnist, Building Design, London

Press Officer, Limehouse Development Group, London Docklands.

Freelance journalist specialising on environmental politics, community architecture and urban regeneration.

Tolmers in Colour, Memories of a London squatter community,  (with Mae Dewsbery and Caroline Lwin). Bay Leaf Books.

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)

The Community Planning Event Manual; How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment, Earthscan.

The Community Planning Handbook; how people can shape their cities, towns and villages in any part of the world, Earthscan.
(Earthscan China Project, Chinese translation, 2002; Misewoom Publishing Co., Korean translation, 2008)

Action Planning; how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve your environment, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture.
(Chuan Hsing Publishing Co.’ Chinese translation, 1996; MATCH (German translation), 1997; Miroslav Kundrata (Czech translation), 1999.

Community Architecture; how people are creating their own environment,
(co-author with Charles Knevitt). Penguin Books Ltd.
(Toshi Bunka Sha, Japanese translation, 1992; Chuan Hsing Publishing Co., Chinese translation, 1993.)

Squatting, the real story,
(compiler and co-editor with Christian Wolmar). Bay Leaf Books.

The Battle for Tolmers Square, Routledge & Kegan Paul.

see Reports & Brochures section on this website.

Involving Local Communities in Urban Design;   promoting good practice, Urban Design Quarterly, July (compiler).

A Multicultural Centre for Hastings:   St Mary-in-the-Castle Prospectus, St Mary-in-the-Castle Working Party (editor).

Turning the Tide;  Hastings Trust prospectus and review 1991 , Hastings Trust (editor).

The Limehouse Petition;  for a future inner city , Limehouse Development Group in association with the Town & Country Planning Association, (editor).

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.

The Hackney Way, BBC2 Omnibus, (programme consultant)

Down to Earth, BBC Radio 4, (scriptwriter and narrator)

Tolmers: Beginning or end?, Thompson Productions for BBC2, (producer)

Finalist in Royal Town Planning Institute Planning Awards  (communityplanning.net)

China News ‘Best 10 books of the Year’ award, (Community Architecture).

Architectural Writer of the Year, International Building Press.

Africa, 1970; USA, 1973/75/86/96; Japan, 1995; South East Asia, 1978; Central & South America, 1975/83; Russia, 1978; Middle East, 1996; China 2012/13; Europe, frequent.