Dr P Jones
MRICS
External Advisor / Company Secretary

Paul graduated from UMIST, Manchester in 1998 having successfully completed an MSc in Property Investment and Development, and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors since 2004. Since 2001, Paul has worked in the field of urban regeneration and development, acting as the Development Manager on urban heritage regeneration projects including the iconic Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Stubbs Mill and Beehive Mill in Manchester, and Park Hill in Sheffield.

After many happy years working in the private sector, Paul recently set up Jones URC, to act in an advisory and delivery capacity on all aspects of community focused urban regeneration projects to the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations. In 2022 Paul was appointed Company Secretary of the Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust in order to advise and assist the Trust with progression of not-for-profit urban heritage regeneration projects. In August 2024, Paul was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Baltic Creative Community Interest Company.

In 2017, Paul was awarded a Doctorate in the Built Environment by the University of Salford where the area of research focus was urban heritage regeneration. Paul is also working, on a mostly full-time basis, lecturing at the University of Salford, within the School of Science, Engineering and the Environment. Specialist areas of research and study include Conservation, Urban Heritage Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse, Planning, and lowering the Environmental Impact of Real Estate Activity.

Mr KE Watson
Trustee

Keith was born and educated in Liverpool and joined the City’s Planning Department in 1985 as a Trainee Assistant and Town Planner. He led development control and area planning teams throughout the 1980s and was the Planning Departments Lead Officer on various regeneration initiatives. In the early 1990s he transferred to the Chief Executive’s Office as an Urban Policy Manager, and in 1995 he was seconded to the newly formed Speke Garston Partnership as its acting Director. He returned to the City Council’s regeneration team in 2001 as the Divisional Manager for Special Initiatives leading on various projects including the construction of an extension of the Princes Landing Stage to accommodate cruise liners, and the regeneration of Anfield and the surrounding Stanley Park area.

Mr LW Maynard
DipTP FRSA
Vice Chair

Bill’s early work experience was on numerous building sites across the North East of England and Scotland. Eventually trained as a town planner, during the 1980s, Bill worked at Liverpool City Council in Policy and Information, Development Control and Implementation. He subsequently transferred to the Chief Executive’s department working in the Strategic Development and Implementation Unit, working on the implementation of city centre projects such as the Philharmonic Hall, LIPA, City Centre Management and the Town Hall.

After many years in public service, Bill became Managing Director of Urban Splash, overseeing projects in Liverpool such as Old Haymarket, The Match Factory in Garston, The Collegiate, and St Peter’s Church in Seel Street. After 17 years at Urban Splash, Bill resigned to travel the world and embarked on a series of projects in the voluntary sector including Baltic Creative, The Prince’s Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the Anglican Cathedral Fabric Committee.

Bill is currently Chair of Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust.