Candidates who are standing to act as corporate member trustees of the RTPI for 2008 and 2009 explain why you should give them your vote.

Mike Hayes

The RTPI is dealing with the consequences of its success in:

repositioning town and country planning as spatial planning at the heart of governments’ programmes for delivering sustainable development and addressing the housing crisis.
 transforming the organisation by addressing member services, Planning Aid, planning education, membership numbers, networks and associations, regions and nations, international links and its internal structures.

There remains much to do:

 managing the expectations for delivery placed on new planning systems, addressing culture change and campaigning for the resources to fill the capacity and skills gaps.
 continuing the Institute’s change programme to become more efficient and effective by:
 matching organisation to outcome and ensuring resources are in place to deliver high quality member services .
 completing Fitness for Purpose to achieve better integration between the Executive, General Assembly, committees and networks and increasing member involvement.
 encouraging young planners in career development and Institute involvement
 developing international networks to ensure planning plays its role in addressing global challenges.

I have been privileged to be at the heart of the reform agenda and seek your support to use my energy, drive and commitment to continue to serve as a trustee.

Colin Haylock

My extended engagement with RTPI activities has allowed me to play a leading role in a number of major initiatives over the years including:-

• Developing high quality CPD programmes in the Northern Region.
• Introducing mandatory CPD nationally.
• Developing the Networks.

I am passionately committed to continuing the development of the Institute as a highly respected, and highly regarded outward facing organisation.

I am keen to take the opportunity through Executive Board of even more intensely supporting work in this area.

In this the interprofessional and cross sector standing I have developed through my work in practice and with CABE and its Planning Forum will help us even more fully exploit the outward facing and widely inclusive work of our Networks and the potential of Associate Membership.

I look forward to contributing to an organisational and operational culture of:-

• Wider input and engagement.
• More understanding.
• Higher standing.
• Better and even higher impact output.

Glyn Roberts

As candidate for the Executive Board I seek the support of General Assembly members for the following agenda:

• Extensions to the package of support offered to members. I was responsible for proposing the RTPI Learning Partners Initiative, which aims to promote structured learning and development opportunities for Members through collaboration with and recognition of employer schemes for staff professional development – now providing important benefits to Members.
• Enhancement of communications between the General Assembly and Executive Board – both in terms of the contribution of individual members of the Board and of the Board as a corporate management body.
• Ensuring that the Executive Board is properly accountable, both to the General Assembly that provides individual ExBo members with their status and mandate but also to the wider membership of the Institute. Part of this responsibility involves ensuring that the ExBo members are both visible and active to both the GA and to the membership at large in dealing with key issues affecting the Institute and its Members.
• Effective running of the business of the Executive Board as the body responsible for day-to-day oversight of the management of the Institute.

Ann Skippers

The RTPI has, in many ways, become a victim of its own success. Over the last few years the Institute has changed dramatically for the better and it has been a privilege to have been involved with the Institute during this period.

I remain passionate about planning and committed to the RTPI. However, I still feel that there is some way to go; the RTPI needs to become the leading light for our profession by becoming stronger and bolder.

I believe that our priorities over the next few years should be to;

 provide valuable and useful services which support members in their day to day work
 increase the number of members
 take robust policy stances on planning issues based on well founded research
 increase our sphere of influence at local, national and international levels
 continue to improve the quality of planning education in planning schools
 get across the value of planning – and planners – by enhancing our profile and image
 continue to reform internally in order to deliver these priorities

I hope that you will give me the opportunity of representing you once more in this capacity.

Richard Summers

Vote for me if you want the RTPI to be run as effectively as possible to promote “spatial planning” as a core activity, engage members more directly, enhance services to members across the regions and nations and extend the recent growth in press coverage and influence on government.

I have 4 years experience on the Executive Board and have steered the formation of the new RTPI Regions out of the Branches Review. I am now chairing the Steering Group for the Spatial Planning in Practice project which reported this summer and is now progressing to dissemination and further development.

We still have some way to go on the “culture change” in planning to implement the New Vision and the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act. We must now integrate spatial planning and economic development more effectively to respond to the Barker Review, the Planning White Paper and the Sub-National Review.

The role of the General Assembly should be strengthened as a forum for policy debate about spatial planning, economic development and other topical issues. The relationships between the Executive Board, the General Assembly, RTPI Committees, the Networks and Associations and the Regions and Nations need to be streamlined.

The election for corporate member trustees will take place during the month of November. All General Assembly members are entitled to vote, and ballot papers will be delivered in late October.

Author:

James Taylor

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

26-Oct-07

Categories:

Governance 

Sections:

The RTPI

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