Allan is a professionally qualified and Chartered Town Planner with over 30 years experience of planning services delivery and management with local planning authorities, mainly in South Wales. He has also held senior corporate management posts in policy, performance, and strategic programme roles.  He now operates an independent planning and management consultancy, providing advice and support services to mainly public sector clients in Wales.  He is an external independent Planning Advisor to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales and was a Welsh Government appointed Member of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority from 2011 to 2019.

Allan has been an RTPI Cymru Executive member over many years and was the first Chair of RTPI Cymru in 2001, and again in 2023.  He has represented RTPI Cymru on the Institute’s General Assembly and is also a member of RTPI Cymru’s Policy and Research Forum.