A co-founder of Roberts Day and partner at HATCH | Urban Solutions, Mike has moderated visioning + planning design forums and led the firm’s design teams responsible for an array of urban transformation projects and new towns throughout Australia, New Zealand, UAE and Asia since the inception of Roberts Day in 1993.Mike was the principal master planner and urban designer of the Ellenbrook New Town in Western Australia and the recipient of the Russell Taylor Award for Design Excellence for Ellenbrook. Ellenbrook received the International Real Estate Federation [FIABCI] 2015 World Prix d'Excellence Award as the world's best master-planned community.Consecutive Western Australian Planning Ministers appointed Mike; Deputy Chairman of the Subiaco Redevelopment Authority and Board member of the East Perth Redevelopment Authority from 2002 - 2010. Mike has held the positions of; Chair EPRA Planning Committee, Chair SRA Planning Committee and Chair Housing Industry of Australia WA – Planning Committee.The Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development appointed Mike to the independent property industry panel that nominated the 900-hectare Werribee East landholdings, within the City of Wyndham, as the site for a model 21st century city for metropolitan Melbourne.Mike was the recipient of the 2018 Place Leaders Asia Pacific Centrepiece Award | Leadership Excellence in Promoting Walkable Urbanism.Most recently Mike led the masterplanning for the jointly funded Consolidated Land and Rail Australia | Federal Government Strategic Business Case for the CLARA High Speed Rail and eight sustainable, liveable, connected cities between Sydney and Melbourne.Based in Melbourne since 2005, Mike is leading the practice's design teams implementing new towns and urban renewal projects in Victoria, SA, Qld and the ACT and was appointed Chair of UDIA Victoria's Building, Design and Civic Realm Committee in August 2018.Mike is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.Specialties: Facilitation of project visioning and planning design forums for the urban development industry and public sector agencies, peer reviews of new town plans and urban regen projects. Embracing the UN #SDGs