George Payiatis

George Payiatis BA, MA is a Senior Urban Designer at Create Streets working to create greener, happier and healthier communities. George teaches at the annual Create Streets Foundation Urban Design Summer School.

He has delivered town centre regeneration strategies in Sunderland and Girvan along with a range of masterplanning and street design projects nationwide including sites in Cumbria, Wiltshire, Surrey, South Wales and Benghazi. George worked on the Healthy Streets for Surrey design code, Chatham Town Centre design code and is currently working on a design code for Cheshire West and Chester all underpinned by extensive stakeholder engagement. He was also involved in our research work, most recently leading our ‘Back on Track’ report providing recommendations on how we can make it cheaper and easier to deliver trams in the U.K.

Prior to joining the team at Create Streets he worked on the strategic masterplanning of new communities and large residential schemes throughout the U.K. and abroad ranging from 50 to 6,000 homes.