Live discussion: are councils prepared for community planning?
Author: The Guardian, Local Government Network |
Localis Research Fellow, Richard Carr, took part in a Guardian online debate on Wednesday 22nd February regarding the future of the planning system and how local government can adjust and encourage communities to get involved.
Other participants included:
Rosemarie MacQueen is strategic director for built environment at Westminster city council. Rosemarie has worked in the private sector and a number of local authorities
David Marlow is managing director of Third Life Economics – an economic and organisation development consultancy established in 2008. He was chief executive of EEDA, the RDA for the East of England, between 2003 and 2008 and has also been chief executive of Doncaster metropolitan borough council.
Ian Wilson is head of government affairs at the National Trust. He worked on the recent planning campaign and also leads on HS2 and green growth. Ian also worked briefly for English Heritage on urban regeneration policy and spent time in the commercial sector as a general practice surveyor focusing on industrial and office development.
Ed Turner is deputy leader of Oxford city council, and leads on planning for the LGA Labour group. He is lecturer in politics at Aston University’s Centre for Europe, with a keen interest in politics of planning, as well as policy decentralisation more generally.
Richard Carr is a research fellow at Localis – the local government and localist think tank which recently launched a report on neighbourhood planning.
Councillor Tony Newman is a member of the LGA’s Environment and Housing Board and is a Labour councillor in Croydon.
Tony Burton is director of Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement working. Civic volunteers are the most numerous participants in the planning system and heavily involved in preparations for neighbourhood planning.
Robin Shepherd is a partner at Barton Willmore, the UK’s largest planning consultancy. Robin specialises in creating new communities and delivering complex large scale development projects.