Young Planners' Conference
The London Young Planners’ Committee are excited to be hosting the Young Planners’ Conference 2025 in London. Throughout the two-day conference, delegates will have the opportunity to hear from a wide range of expert speakers from across the public and private sectors, participate in interactive breakout sessions, exchange ideas and network with peers from across the built environment industry.
We live in a time where communities are becoming more diverse, mental and physical health needs are changing, and the housing crisis wages on. Young planners are the profession’s future, and we want to prepare them better to deal with these challenges and improve their understanding of how the planning industry can lend itself as a solution as we work towards better health.
The conference seeks to explore the theme of health through an engaging programme of speaker panels, breakout sessions and study tours focussed on the relationship between planning, physical and mental health, inequality, place-making and policy. The standard of health varies widely across the UK and it is well
understood that socio-economic inequalities can contribute towards geographic health inequality, which we see in many of our cities today.
The conference is always a positive and enriching experience for delegates and participants alike and significantly contributes to the career development of Young Planners.
Gala dinner
The gala dinner will take place at the Hilton London Tower Bridge on Friday 5 September. There are limited tickets available
Contact events@rtpi.org.uk if you’re interested in sponsorship opportunities.
The conference is an event highlight in the RTPI’s calendar and aims to attract up to 250 planning professionals from across the UK who are in the first 10 years of their careers.
Speakers
- Abhimanyu Acharya (Associate Director, Prior + Partners)
- Alexander Tayler (Principal Development Management Officer, BeFirst)
- Amandeep Kellay (Portfolio Manager Health Effect of Air Pollution | Freight, Construction, Impact on Urban Health)
- Amy Tempest (Principal Area Planner, TfL)
- Andie Čížková (Senior Planner, Hyas Associates & Co-Lead of the Neurodiversity in Planning Network)
- Anne Crane (TfL, Area Team Manager)
- Annie Gingell (Neurodiversity in Planning, AD, Turley)
- Antonia May (BDP)
- Callum Monks (Associate Development Director, Countryside)
- Charlotte Hutchinson (Associate Partner, Carter Jonas)
- Chatnam Lee (Consultant Urban Designer, AECOM)
- Charlotte Morphet (Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, University of the Built Environment)
- Dan Allen (Senior Urban Planner, Prior + Partners)
- Daniel Mather (Consultant Urban Designer, AECOM)
- Doug Beasley (Planning Manager, Related Argent)
- Emily Tanzini-Hale (Graduate Planner, WEA Planning)
- Emma Bennett (Senior Planning Manager, Related Argent)
- Hannah Gibbs (Deputy Chief Executive, Future of London)
- Hashi Mohamed (Barrister, Landmark Chambers)
- Hafsa Elmi (Public Health, London Borough of Newham)
- Helen Fadipe MBE (President 2025)
- Jamie Hodge (Head of Consultation and Engagement, Earls Court Development Company)
- Jayshree Astley (Senior Town Planning Lecturer, LSBU)
- Jenny Jones (Director of Transport Planning, Jacobs)
- Jenny Offord (Head of Meridian Water Regeneration, Enfield Council)
- Jimmy Lu (Principal Urban Designer, AECOM)
- Kat Carr (Principal Transport Planner, Jacobs)
- Kerry Harding (Project Principal, Mott MacDonald)
- Kevin McGeough (Head of Strategy & Placemaking, Ebbsfleet District Council)
- Lester Hillman
- Lisa Fairmaner (Head of London Plan, GLA)
- Dr Louise Edgington (Child Psychologist, ClimateEdPsych)
- Matt Harris (Director, Markides Associates)
- Michael Chang (Associate Town Planner & Healthy Planning Lead, NHS Property Services & Visiting Professor, WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, University of the West of England)
- Naomi Pomfret (London Borough of Newham Planning)
- Nick Grant (Barrister, Landmark Chambers)
- Professor Rose Gilroy (Professor of Ageing, Policy & Planning, Newcastle University)
- Robyn Prince (Strategic Planning and Engagement Manager, Countryside Partnerships)
- Sam Smith (Planning Manager, NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit)
- Sana Lakhany (Planning Manager, Related Argent)
- Steve Quatermain (Former Chief Planner, MHCLG)
- Thomas Bender (Senior Associate, Montagu Evans)
Throughout the two-day conference, delegates will have the opportunity to hear from a wide range of expert speakers from across the public and private sectors.