Ben Hamilton-Baillie (4 July 1955 – 3 March 2019)[1] was an urban designer and movement specialist, described as "the leading international expert on the development of shared space".
Hamilton-Baillie trained as an architect in Cambridge, and worked in London, Hamburg and Turkey[3] before moving to Bristol where he spent 13 years in housing renewal and development.
With Sustrans, he helped complete the first phase of the UK’s National Cycle Network, and to develop transport initiatives such as ‘Safe Routes to Schools’ and home zones.
He was awarded a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship in 2000 which permitted him to visit and report on European and Scandinavian home zones.
He was lead designer for the regeneration of the Cheshire town of Poynton,[citation needed] involving the redesign of Fountain Place and the removal of the former traffic signals.