Experienced town planning and built environment professional with leadership, governance and organisational development experience at UK, national and local levels. Managing Director/Partner of Urban Vision Enterprise. Also Director/Partner of D2H Land, Planning, Development. Other roles include High Streets Task Force Expert, Design Council Expert, and Communications and Outreach Chair for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Former roles include: Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Planning Forum (national membership body), Head of Planning Aid England (then a Government funded national service), Chair of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (UK professional body), Chair of the Historic Towns Forum (UK membership body) and a team leader in local Government. Former Associate of the Consultation Institute, consultant specialist for Crossrail Thames Tunnels section and neighbourhood plan independent examiner.Author of Locality Neighbourhood Planning Roadmap Guide, parts of BS7913 (Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings), IHBC and HTVF 'Conservation Professional Practice Principles' and a range of other planning guidance.Experience includes participation in a range of Government steering, stakeholder and working groups and Parliamentary Select Committees and providing briefings for the Conservation, People and Places All Party Parliamentary Group. Also contributed to a wide range of national conferences and publications and regularly involved in public speaking and guest lecturing. Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI), Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), Fellow of the Institute of Leadership (FoIL) and Fellow of the RSA Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).Specialisms: planning mediation, complex negotiations, planning policy (national, local, neighbourhood), third sector organisational development, funding negotiations, community-led development, heritage-led economic development, project development, leadership and management and governance, strategic and business planning, training.