Regional Management Board

Jessica is an Associate Director at Turley based in their Midlands office and is Co-Chair of the East Midlands Women in Planning Committee. In her role at Turley, Jessica manages a diverse range of projects, with a particular focus on strategic residential planning. Outside of work, Jessica is a keen baker and enjoys travelling to interesting new places.

Chrissy has been a chartered town planner for more than 15 years. She joined Heatons Planning in Derby as an Associate Director in November 2022 and sits within the residential and commercial team. Chrissy is currently working on a SUE scheme alongside other residential and employment projects of various scales. 

Chrissy lives in Derby. Prior to joining Heatons she worked from home for a planning consultancy based in the North East, which she joined after a successful career as a town planner in the public sector. She worked for a number of East and West Midlands authorities, being the lead case officer for a wide range of applications. This included many major residential, leisure and commercial developments with the most well known being St George's Park in Burton upon Trent ... the 'home of the English football'.

Chrissy has attended many RTPI CPD events over the years and joined the RTPI East Midlands Activities Committee is her first role with the RTPI. In 2024 she takes up the role of RTPI East Midlands RMB RAC Vice Chair. She is particularly interested in planning law and balancing the many issues that the planning system seeks to consider and resolve. She enjoys how every day is a 'learning day' as a town planner.

Megan is 2025 Chair of the RTPI East Midlands Young Planners Committee, and Junior Vice Chair of the RTPI East Midlands RMB/RAC Committee. Megan is a Chartered member of the RTPI and CIH and currently works for Marrons as a Planning Director. She specialises in residential and economic development, including the preparation of Local Plan evidence, 5-Year Housing Land Supply Assessments and Economic Benefits Assessments. Alongside her strategic planning work, Megan prepares and manages a range of residential planning applications for local and national developers and housebuilders. Prior to joining DLP, she worked in housebuilding and strategic land promotion. Megan joined the East Midlands Young Planners Committee in 2021 and has assisted in organising both in-person and webinar-based events for RTPI members. Outside of planning, she enjoys travelling, reading and spoiling her nephew.

Scott is a Chartered Member of the RTPI working as an Associate Planner within the General Practice Planning Team for Fisher German. He has experience assisting and leading on a wide range of major and minor projects, predominantly within the rural, residential and commercial sectors. In January 2017, Scott joined the RTPI East Midlands Young Planners Committee providing support in organising a range of CPD and social events across the region. In 2018 the committee delivered the national RTPI Young Planners’ Conference in Nottingham where he was involved in budgeting and sponsorship. Following this great success in January 2019 Scott decided to volunteer on the RTPI East Midlands Regional Activities Committee to then be elected to the position of Vice Chair on the Regional Management Board in November. Scott then went on to Chair the RMB/RAC Committees for several years, handing over to Jessica in January 2024. 

Steve re-joined the RMB/RAC in 2018 after a long “break”, having previously served on the regional committee back in the 2000s. For next year, he is taking on the role of East Midlands representative on the RTPI’s Nations and Regions Committee. Based in Lincoln, Steve heads up the plan-making and placemaking studio, OpenPlan, which operates mostly in two strangely diverse regions: the East Midlands and the West Indies (Caribbean). Steve is particularly interested in developing the application of spatial planning skills and insights to build resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change. He sees national and international knowledge sharing and transfer as being crucial to effective planning.

Lynette has been a chartered town planner for more than 12 years. She is currently an Associate Director at Savills based across the company’s Peterborough, Cambridge and Lincoln offices. She is responsible for a wide range of planning projects across the Midlands and Eastern regions. Lynette joined Savills in January and before this worked for Lincoln-based planning consultants Globe Limited. She has also worked for Lincolnshire County Council, Harbrough District Council, and started her career at Weatherall, Green & Smith and Urban Practitioners. Until September 2017, Lynette was Vice Chair of the RTPI East Midlands and remains an active member of the Regional Board. Lynette is also a member of the RTPI’s General Assembly at present, representing the East Midlands. Outside of work, Lynette enjoys spending time with her young family, baking, running and going to gigs when time allows!

David has held various professional planning positions in a local government career lasting more then 30 years. He has been Director for Planning and Regeneration at Harborough District Council since 2015 and in this role, among other achievements, he has overseen the adoption of the district-wide local plan, and he is now busy preparing another plan to ensure the district's plan-led strategy remains up to date. He is also an experienced lead of the Council's Development Management Service which also covers Heritage and Conservation and Planning Enforcement. He enjoys leading the busy Planning Department with its variety of work to get involved in. 

Prior to becoming Director of Planning, David was Head of the West Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit. This had the status of a strategic planning policy making planning authority providing strategic plan making services to the partner Councils of Northamptonshire County Council, Daventry District, Northampton Borough and South Northamptonshire Councils.

He has had a varied and full planning careers to date and is also experienced in leading Economic Development, Waste and Recycling and Public Open Space management services