Regional Activities Committee

John Mason is a planning consultant with Carter Jonas, based in their Cambridge Office. After studying at the Universities of Cambridge and Vienna, he joined the company as a graduate planner and got his RTPI accreditation in 2018. He now works on various public and private sector projects across East Anglia and is also active in Carter Jonas’ graduate training programme and its Diversity and Inclusion committee. John originally hails from the Midlands but has lived, worked and studied in the East of England region for the last ten years. Outside of work, John enjoys visiting housing estates around the world and regularly takes trips to visit family in India.

David Carlisle is a Planning Director at Stantec in Cambridge where he specialises in plan making, strategic planning and promotion of new communities providing support to: developers; Local Planning Authorities; Strategic Authorities; Government departments; and non-departmental public bodies. Prior to moving into planning consultancy, he was a member of Croydon’s spatial planning team where he worked on his hometown’s Local Plan from inception through to adoption. David is passionate about supporting his peers through the Assessment of Professional Competence and contributes to Continuing Professional Development activities both within Stantec and on behalf of the RTPI.

Katie is a Principal Planner (Major Sites) at East Suffolk Council and has over six years of experience working in planning and urban design.

Katie graduated from LSBU with a Distinction in Urban Design and Planning in 2022 and is a chartered member of the RTPI.  She has a wide range of experience working within planning, from householder developments up to large major projects, including garden neighbourhoods. Katie has also worked with several local authorities to produce authority-wide Design Codes, amongst other urban design projects. Katie is also a member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee and Vice-Chair of the National Young Planner Committee.

David is currently a visiting lecturer for the MSc Sustainable Planning course at the University of Hertfordshire, as well as serving on the Committee of a RSL and a Trustee for a national cancer charity.

Previously, he was Executive Director for Stewardship & Development at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, the community benefit society that owns the freehold of the Letchworth Garden City Estate, reinvesting surplus from its main property portfolio back into the community through its charitable commitments, where he was responsible for the regeneration of Letchworth Town Centre, the Foundation’s housing, environmental and sustainability strategies and the first expansion of Letchworth since the 1980s.  This is the successor organisation to Ebenezer Howard’s First Garden City Ltd, which developed Letchworth in the early 1900s.  

He has worked in planning for 35 years, in both the public and private sectors, including within Planning Departments at Broxbourne (whilst studying on a part-time basis at South Bank University), Welwyn Hatfield and South Cambridgeshire District Councils. He was Planning Manager at Linden Homes (Chiltern) and an Associate Director of Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners before running his practice for five years.

David is a regular speaker on garden cities in the UK and internationally.  He has worked on various development schemes, including town centre regeneration, urban expansions, commercial development and many housing developments.  

He was previously Chair of the Regional Committee in 2022 and has been head judge for the annual regional awards since 2022.

He is an advocate for a wider understanding of Neuroendocrine Cancer as well as improved diagnosis and patient support.  He has been treated for this form of cancer since 2022.

John is a barrister, specialising in planning and property, having qualified initially as a town planner. He studied at Durham and Liverpool Universities and worked for City, County and Borough Authorities on both development plans and development management before joining the Bar. He attended the Inns of Court School of Law and trained in London Chambers. He practised for many years in London before joining Trinity Chambers, Chelmsford.

He has undertaken a wide variety of planning and related cases for planning authorities, parish councils, residents' groups, trading firms, universities, schools, churches and individuals.  Much of his work is in the East of England and London. Recently, it has included some major residential appeal inquiries, enforcement appeals, local plan examinations and appearances in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

For several years, he has been a member of the East of England RTPI Regional Activities Committee and has organised the Region's annual planning law update conference in Cambridge.

A recognised expert in his field with over 30 years of development experience. He has been bi-annually elected on to the East of England Regional Royal Town Planning Institute’s Management Board since 1995. After graduating from Oxford Polytechnic’s planning school Robert worked in both West Berkshire and then the City and District of St Albans Councils. Robert is a Director at David Lock Associates where for the last 21 years he has advised on the provision of strategies to deliver implementable industrial and commercial planning permissions. This work extends from regional promotion, resolving site specific constraints – such as contamination, co-ordinating projects teams, negotiating planning obligations and advising on the implementation of schemes. Much of his work involves delivering logistics, power, energy, data centres and both large scale City centre office and health care facilities.

Anthony works with Hertfordshire County Council through WSP, specialising in transport and strategic planning. Anthony has a background and interest in healthy and active travel and now brings that to his work on infrastructure planning, settlement strategies and site masterplans.

Anthony regularly presents at Hertfordshire University, supporting their growing transport and planning courses.

Adam has been a member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee since 2012 and has served as regional chair in 2018 and 2019.  Adam lives in Norfolk and works as a Principal Planning Policy Officer at South Norfolk and Broadland Councils.

Alexia Kallini is a Planning Officer at Hertsmere Borough Council, focusing on development management. Following her undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering in Greece, Alexia attended the City Planning, MSc at the University of Glasgow (2019-2020) and served as the Student Representative for RTPI West of Scotland until December 2020. Alexia has a passion for urban conservation and the historic environment. 

Beverley was elected to the East of England Regional Activities Committee in 2019. Beverley lives in Colchester and worked as a policy planner at Colchester Borough Council until 2018. She now works as the Planning Officer for both the Dedham Vale and Suffolk Coast & Heaths Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Carmel is a Chartered Town Planner with a strong background in Customer Service and a keen interest in digital innovation.

She currently works in Developer Contributions, where she manages the collection and expenditure of CIL and S106 at a London Council.

 Alongside this, Carmel enjoys engaging with the broader strategic aspects of Planning and is enthusiastic about the opportunity to contribute to the work of the RTPI.

Graham is Land & Planning Partner for William H Brown, heading up their Land & Planning service for clients and landowners. He has been employed in planning since 2003 with significant experience comprising local authority, consultancy, regeneration, housebuilder and developer roles, becoming a Chartered Planner in 2010. Graham was formerly the Young Planners’ Representative for RTPI East of England and has been a Member of the RAC since 2013. He has a particular interest in the APC process having been an Assessor since 2011 and sitting on the APC Advisory Board from its original inception in 2012 until 2015. He re-joined the panel in its new form as MAAP in 2020 and also provides APC training events on a regional and national basis.

Lee is a Chartered Town Planner with over 25 years’ experience gained across roles in planning consultancy, local government and in the client-side development sector.  He has been engaged in projects throughout the UK, but the majority of his professional life has been focused on London and the East of England.  He is currently employed as a Planning Director in Strutt and Parker’s Chelmsford office (part of BNP Paribas Real Estate).  Lee has been a member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee since 2015 and has in the past served as Honorary Secretary and as a member of the Regional Management Board. 

Nicole was the RTPI London co-chair from 2022-2023, where she arranged events for the region. From 2019, she was actively involved in the RAC and RMB in London. Nicole has been working as a strategic land promoter at Croudace Homes since 2021. In this role, she promotes large sites through the local plan process to gain allocations and then submits planning applications on them.

Nicole has experience in different areas of planning. Nicole has worked in the private sector, such as in the planning consultancy team at Aecom, where she focused on environmental assessments, in the public sector at Westminster Council’s enforcement team and in the non-profit sector at A2Dominion, a housing association.

Nicole has just joined the RTPI in 2025 as an APC assessor. Nicole has worked in the built environment industry for over 8 years.

Nima is a Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) and a Planning Officer with expertise in Development Management. He brings high-level international strategic planning and urban regeneration leadership experience. Nima holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, specialising in innovative participatory planning, community engagement, and city game design. He is committed to the East of England, serving on both the Regional Activities Committee and the Young Planners Committee for the 2026-2027 term.

Currently Executive Director at Hertsmere Borough Council. Peter is an as experienced practitioner having worked across all sectors – private, public and voluntary. He has over thirty years’ experience working in the fields of planning and development. Peter has held senior leadership roles in several local authorities including at Southend on Sea Borough Council, where he was Director of Planning and Transport. Peter was also Chief Planning Officer for Brentwood Borough Council in Essex and Head of Planning and Conservation at Broadland District Council in Norfolk where he had responsibility for managing the authority’s planning service and advising on major development proposals.

Sade lives in Hertfordshire and is a Principal Planner at Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation. Sade’s 15 years of Planning experience are mostly from working at local authorities in development management, planning policy, and planning enforcement.

Shikha is a Chartered Town Planner with over 10 years’ experience gained across roles in planning consultancy, local government and in the client-side development sector.  She has been engaged in projects throughout the UK.  

Shikha has recently joined as a co-opted member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee and has in the past carried out Planning Aid and continues to undertake philanthropic work.

Georgia is a Principal Planner at Hertsmere Borough Council, working on large majors and strategic sites with six years of development management experience. Georgia completed her town planning Masters degree in 2022 and is a chartered member of the RTPI. She has worked on a broad range of developments from large housing schemes to hyperscale data centres, in both the Green Belt and town centre locations. Georgia has recently joined the East of England Regional Activities Committee as a co-opted member and is keen to contribute to the numerous training and networking opportunities that the Committee offers.