Core CPD Framework:
- Championing Planning
- Placemaking and Design
- Climate Change and Environmental Planning
- Planning Law and Process
- 1 1/2 CPD Hours
Event Description
The NPPF emphasises that planning must address the needs of local communities and that the development of local plans and design policies should involve consultation with these communities and reflect the local aspirations (NPPF, 12.). However, community engagement has often been seen as a resource-intensive task and reduced to initial requirements.
Recent practices highlight the diversity of opportunities related to more proactive community engagement and the need for planning mechanisms to facilitate and integrate diverse community engagement forms into planning processes.
The event will explore the crucial role of active and timely community engagement in shaping places to deepen social, economic and sustainability values and contribute in more holistic and equitable ways to urban revitalisation. It addresses the following questions:
- How community engagement-led approaches influence outcomes for permanent and meanwhile urban developments, Business Improvement Districts, Creative Enterprise Zones (CEZ) and community energy initiatives.
- How to advance this model as our cities and neighbourhoods adapt to challenges, and to overcome deprivation.
- How to anchor this model more elaborately in local authorities' and planning officers' practices, and address arising challenges.
The event in context
The event is one in a series of reflective and technical planning events envisaged by the CPD Committee under the RTPI London Regional Management Board to address crucial and timely issues in planning and sustainability. This includes the new planning reforms and the role of strategic planning, empowering community engagement and impact in city adaptations and renewal, and innovation in planning processes with a focus on the role of digitalisation in ensuring more synergy and value in the local planning review processes.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes as a result of participation include:
- Knowledge about innovative practices in community engagement and their role in planning sustainable places and unlocking social and economic values.
- A deeper grasp of how community engagement-led approaches influence outcomes for permanent and meanwhile urban developments, Business Improvement Districts, Creative Enterprise Zones (CEZ) and community energy initiatives.
- Insights into how to advance this model as our cities and neighbourhoods adapt to challenges, and to overcome deprivation.
- Learning ways to anchor this model more elaborately in local authorities' and planning officers' practices, and address arising challenges.
Programme
- Presentations and a panel debate
- Followed by a 20 minutes discussion with the audience.
- Then an opportunity for networking
Accessibility
The RTPI is committed to delivering inclusive events; to make sure that everyone can have the best possible experience. To help work towards being able to do this an event organiser will contact all booked participants to discuss any access needs or requirements that they might have. Contact Rachel Smith to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.
Catering
- Light refreshments
Useful Links for further reading
- ‘Why community collaboration offers a strategic advantage’, Anna Odedun, Future of London blog, 4 April 2025.
- Citizens: why the key to fixing everything is all of us, Jon Alexander with Ariane Conrad, Canbury Press, 2022.
- Design for Belonging: How to build inclusion and collaboration in your communities, Susie Wise, Ten Speed Press, 2022.
- For the love of Community Engagement, Becky Hirst, Rebecca Hirst, 2021.
- Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities, Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla and Mara Mintzer, New Village Press, 2018.
- Making Places for People: 12 questions every designer should ask, Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young, Routledge, 2017.
- Recoded City: Co-creating Urban Futures, Thomas Ermacora and Lucy Bullivant, Routledge, 2016.
Host
This event is kindly hosted by DP9.
Speakers
Gianluca Rizzo
Manager, Stratford Original and Brixton BIDs
Gianluca Rizzo
Manager, Stratford Original and Brixton BIDs
Gianluca is a Place Management specialist with extensive experience in the BID industry. He holds a MSc in Geography from UCL. At the Stratford Original and Brixton BIDs he is responsible for leading the vision and strategy, and championing the interests of the local business community.
https://brixtonbid.co.uk/team-members/gianluca-rizzo/
https://stratfordoriginal.com/about/#our-team
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianluca-rizzo
Pippa Gueterbock
Head of Placemaking, London Borough of Haringey
Pippa Gueterbock
Head of Placemaking, London Borough of Haringey
Pippa is a socio-economic and place regeneration expert who has worked in both the public and private sector in high profile renewal projects in London. She currently leads a dynamic placemaking team at LB Haringey, and was previously the council’s Head of Area Regeneration, Wood Green, following roles at LLDC (Principal Designer), AECOM (Associate Director) and Fluid (Associate). She trained as an architect at London Metropolitan University and University of Brighton.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pippa-gueterbock
Imogen Thompson MRTPI
Executive Director, Urban Land Institute UK
Imogen Thompson MRTPI
Executive Director, Urban Land Institute UK
Imogen is the UK Executive Director for Urban Land Institute, a best practice built environment organisation that brings together industry experts to tackle the critical issues of our time. By background, Imogen is an experienced urban planner, specialising in large-scale regeneration projects and complex urban programmes. She has led the business case development, strategic planning programmes, consultations, and stakeholder strategies for multi-billion-pound major growth, regeneration, and infrastructure projects, and secured over £1 billion worth of funding/investment in transit-oriented growth strategies and infrastructure bids to enable regeneration and transit-oriented development.
https://uk.uli.org/imogen-thompson-appointed-as-uli-uk-executive-director/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/imogen-thompson
Dr Lucy Bullivant Hon FRIBA
Director, Lucy Bullivant & Associates
Dr Lucy Bullivant Hon FRIBA
Director, Lucy Bullivant & Associates
Lucy is a place strategist, curatorial director, award-winning author and public speaker dedicated to just transitions enabled through bespoke and engaged adaptive planning. In 2010 she was elected an Honorary Fellow by RIBA for her contribution to sustainable architectural culture globally. Through her consultancy firm, Lucy Bullivant & Associates, she has delivered strategies for the London BID Central District Alliance, and local authorities including Enfield Council, Westminster City Council and Bydel Bjerke, Oslo. Lucy’s advisory roles also include Chair, Lambeth Design Review Panel; Trustee, Temple Bar Trust, and guest critic and author, School of Architecture, ETH Zurich.
Lucy curated ‘Urbanistas: women innovators in architecture, urban and landscape design’ for Roca London Gallery (2014) and ‘Retrofit 23: Towards the Deep Retrofit of Buildings at Scale’. Her published books include Masterplanning Futures (Routledge, 2012), winner of the Urban Design Group Book of the Year, 2014 (second edition, Agents of Change, due 2025), and in 2013 she founded her webzine for liveable urbanism, Urbanista.org. She has a PhD by Prior Output in adaptive planning (School of Art, Architecture and Design), London Metropolitan University.
Dr Roudaina Alkhani MRTPI
Registered Architect MAA in DK
Dr Roudaina Alkhani MRTPI
Registered Architect MAA in DK
Roudaina is the Founding Director of Platforms, advising in sustainable urban and strategic planning, master planning, urban design, and regeneration to create thriving, sustainable places. She combines a strong professional background as a Chartered MRTPI planner and a registered Architect MAA in Denmark with outstanding practice and experience from higher education and research.
Her experience includes working with local authorities, such as Copenhagen co-leading its strategy, and providing international advisory services to planning and aid organisations like GIZ and the Swedish Cities Association, promoting sustainable cities and planning capabilities. In 2017-2023 Roudaina was a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design and Co-Course Director of the BA Designing Cities at the University of Westminster, leading integrated, sustainable, and resilient cities and neighbourhoods education. She is a Member of RTPI-London Management Board, leading its CPD Committee. She is an Expert of the Worldwide Network of Port Cities, advocating sustainable coasts, and is an Affiliate of UN-Habitat P4CA, drawing on her climate research. Roudaina is also an author, keynote speaker, conference chair, and guest lecturer at UK universities.
www.linkedin.com/in/roudainaalkhani
