The Rural Planning policy group responds to consultations relevant to rural planning. 

David Alexander, Consultant specialising in countryside and environmental issues

David is a freelance planner specialising in rural and environmental issues. He is an RTPI assessor and a member of the RTPI North West Regional Activities Committee, and regularly writes for planning journals. Locally, David runs a practical countryside management and conservation volunteers group, concerned with rural land management skills. He has previously held the post of senior lecturer in countryside planning at Liverpool John Moores University. David’s specific interests include strategic rural policy; landscape character and rural biodiversity; agriculture and rural resource management; rural services; rural DC issues; the rural role of planning.

Paul Miner, Senior Planning Campaigner, CPRE

Paul has worked at CPRE since 2002 and during that time has executed successful campaigns against the spread of illegal advertising alongside motorways and speculative landbanking in the Green Belt. Paul wrote CPRE's full response to the Planning White Paper; co-authored the report Future Planners jointly with the RTPI, Demos, RICS, and English Partnerships. Paul is also a member of the regional activities committee of RTPI London.

Simon Rutter, Director, Philip Proctor Associates

Simon is a Director at in a firm of Architects that act as planning consultants and provide planning advice. Simon has a vast range of experience in all forms of housing and small commercial schemes (retail, office and workshops). He was recently was involved in the redevelopment of Sturminster Newton livestock market, a mixed use scheme including new community hall, medical centre, supermarket, offices, shops and flats and houses. Simon has an interest in the role of and future for rural communities, infrastructure, demographic social - economic shifts and the increasingly questioned idea of sustainability and what it actually means.

Andrew Shaw, Policy Manager, High Weald AONB Unit

Andrew is the Policy Manager for the High Weald AONB currently reviewing the management plan for the AONB and closely involved with all related planning matters. He is currently working in partnership with English Heritage on new guidance on historic farmsteads and rural settlement issues, and worked closely with land use consultants on rural sustainable settlement research. Rural planning policy is central to Andrews work and he has a strong interest in how to combine development pressure with landscape protection and sustainable communities.

Phil A Turner, Consultant Community Planning, and Vice President of ECOVAST

Phil Turner is Hon Regional policy Officer of the Royal Town Planning Institute South East Regional Activities Committee. Phil has previously worked as a Community Planner for RTPI Planning Aid South, and continues as a volunteer for Planning Aid. Phil ran a sole practice, after early retirement as Assistant County Planning Officer in Hampshire. Over the last decade, his experience has included housing enabling in West Sussex, village hall development in Hampshire, parish appraisals, village design statements and parish plans. He has also facilitated a pioneering Neighbourhood Design Statement in the City of Winchester. Now his priorities extend to assisting community engagement in the Isle of Wight and training community groups in areas of growth and disadvantage in parts of urban and rural Hampshire. Phil is Vice President of ECOVAST, the European Council for Villages and Small Towns.

Nic Wheeler

A Geography Graduate from Durham University, also holding a Diploma in Town Planning, and a Corporate Member of the RTPI. Appointed National Park Officer to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in 1974, and Chief Executive in 1996, when it became a free-standing Authority. Nic serves on the National Assembly’s Wales Planning Forum, the Wales Coastal & Maritime Partnership, the Welsh Historic Environment Group and the Welsh Assembly Government’s Consultative Forum on Welsh Finance and is a member of several RTPI Networks and working Groups. Nic is the Chairman of the Coed Cymru Management Partnership. Planning Adviser to the WLGA, and Member of the Objective 1 Pembrokeshire Partnership Management Board, Community Planning and Leadership Partnership, and the Wales Spatial Plan Pembrokeshire Area Partnership, as well as a Member of Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum, and of Cambria Archaeology. He was Lead Chief Executive UK Association of National Park Authorities, and immediate past Secretary to the Welsh Association as well as a Governor of Pembrokeshire College.

Elfed R. Williams, Principal, ERW Consulting

Elfed is a chartered Surveyor in private practice, specialising in Planning and development in North Wales. Elfed is an Associate member of the RTPI and other qualifications include LLM, FRICS, DipSurv. He has his own consultancy based in Anglesey and is particularly interested in planning law, having majored in this field as part of his Master`s in Law degree. Elfed is especially keen to participate in the RTPI’s policy review functions in Wales.

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Author:

Catherine Middleton

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The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

09-Aug-10

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