Riëtte established and leads HTA Design’s award-winning planning team and is responsible for the practice’s Urban Planning. Her team of residential and residential-led mixed-use expert planners deliver bespoke planning advice and solutions to a wide range of clients from the public and private sector.

HTA’s planning team have delivered a significant portfolio of successful planning applications, including complex infill development, estate regeneration, masterplanning and design coding, and MMC development, working collaboratively with HTA Design teams and other architectural practices.

 

Riëtte is a strategic thinker who takes creative approaches to resolve challenging planning constraints through good design. She is closely involved in promoting HTA’s innovative solutions to solve the housing crisis, including the suburban intensification project ‘Supurbia’, and formulating how design practices can demonstrate social value through the design process itself, working towards long term well-being and lasting buildings.

 

Riëtte was included in the Planner’s Women of Influence list 2018 and 2020.

She is currently vice Chairman of the London Planning and Development Forum.