Strategic Planning in the North East

A chartered Town Planner and member of the Transport Planning Society Andrew is a Senior Transport Planner at NE Combined Authority. He works in Transport and Infrastructure planning responsible for the development and delivery of the North East’s transport pipeline and transport plan. Andrew prepares major funding bids develops regional policy and strategy and project manages the delivery of capital and revenue funding in the region. Andrew works closely with local authority, national and subnational partners in linking transport planning wider spatial planning outcomes.

Prior to joining the Transport North East, Andrew spend six years at Transport for London working in development management across South London. He also gained experience in TfL’s Commercial Development team. Whilst in London Andrew was Chair of the RTPI region in 2016 and was Honorary Secretary prior to that. He is now the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer for RTPI North East and is a Planning Aid England volunteer, part of a team providing advice through PAE’s advice line service.

Dr Daniel Slade is the RTPI’s Policy Manager. He joined the Institute from the Town and Country Planning Association, where he spent three years managing their Healthy Homes campaign. Before that he was the RTPI’s Research Officer, and worked on the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime for the Institute for Government. He has a PhD on planning reform and an Masters in Civic Design (planning) from the University of Liverpool.

Ada is RTPI’s Infrastructure and Climate Change Specialist, leading on the institute’s policy positions on the topics of transport, infrastructure and climate change. She holds a PhD in Land Economy and an MPhil in Environmental Policy, both from the University of Cambridge. Her research and teaching experience spans the areas of public engagement, planning theory and environmental policy. She was a journalist at the start of her career, specialising in transport infrastructure news.